Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Best Of: Legends of Country Music (W/Book)
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Artist: Bob Wills & His Texas PlayboysEdition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-08-29
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Sunbonnet Sue
- Nancy Jane
- Osage Stomp
- Get with It
- Spanish Two Step
- Maiden's Prayer
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- Who Walks in When I Walk Out
- Oklahoma Rag
- Sittin' on Top of the World
- I Can't Be Satisfied
- Waltz in D
- She's Killing Me
- Bluin' the Blues
- Steel Guitar Rag
- Trouble in Mind
- What's the Matter with the Mill
- Basin Street Blues
- Red Hot Gal of Mine
- Too Busy
- Crippled Turkey
- Bring It on Down to My House, Honey
- Right or Wrong
- Swing Blues #1
- White Heat
- Steel Guitar Stomp
- Rosetta
- Blue Yodel #1
- I'm a Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas)
- Oozlin' Daddy Blues
- Black Rider
- Down Hearted Blues
- Pray for the Lights to Go Out
- San Antonio Rose
- Silver Bells
- Beaumont Rag
- Whoa Babe
- Ida Red
- Yearning
- I Wonder If You Feel the Way I Do
- Prosperity Special
- You're Okay
- Liza Pull Down the Shades
- That's What I Like 'Bout the South
- My Window Faces the South
- Don't Let the Deal Go Down
- Lone Star Rag
- That Brownskin Gal
- Corrine Corrina
- Time Changes Everything
- Bob Wills Special
- Big Beaver
- New San Antonio Rose
- Liebestraum
- Lyla Lou
- Maiden's Prayer
- The Girl I Left Behind Me
- I Knew the Moment I Lost You
- Twin Guitar Special
- Take Me Back to Tulsa
- Takin' It Home
- Cherokee Maiden
- Dusty Skies
- My Life's Been a Pleasure
- Drop Us off at Bob's Place
- Home in San Antone
- That Hot Lick Fiddlin' Man
- Miss Molly
- My Confession
- Ten Years
- Let's Ride with Bob
- Bluer Than Blue
- Hand Your Head in Shame
- Texas Playboy Rag
- Roly Poly
- Stay a Little Longer
- I Can't Go on This Way
- I'm Thru Wasting Time on You
- New Spanish Two Step
- Sugar Moon
- Brain Cloudy Blues
- Bob Wills Boogie
- Fat Boy Rag
- The Kind of Love I Can't Forget
- Hometown Stomp
- Misery
- Deep Water
- Bubbles in My Beer
- Papa's Jumpin'
- Sally Goodin'
- Still Water Runs the Deepest
- Blues for Dixie
- Keeper of My Heart
- Ida Red Likes to Boogie
- Boot Heel Drag
- Faded Love
- St. Louis Blues
- Cadillac in Model "A"
- Heart to Heart Talk
- Wabash Blues
- A Big Ball in Cowtown (We'll Dance Around)
- Pan Handle Rag
- Blue Bonnet Lane
- What Makes Bob Holler
- Goin' Away Party
Free Music Notes for Best Of: Legends of Country Music (W/Book)
Free Music Review: A moving tribute to a great musician !
Hit: 5 Stars
Born to a poor family in Limestone County, Texas, Bob Wills (the undisputed "King of Western Swing") has become synonymous with that style of music. In 2006, this 4-disc release in Columbia "Legends of Country Music" series is a great way to celebrate his centennial! Wills had learned to play the fiddle by age ten. By the late 1920s, he and Herman Arnspiger were performing in the Fort Worth area as The Wills Fiddle Band. In 1931, they were joined by Milton & Durwood Brown and called themselves Aladdin's Laddies. Disc #1 in this set begins in 1932 with recordings of The Light Crust Doughboys, the band formed after the Light Crust Flour Co. hired the band for radio broadcasts. Because of a trademark, Victor Records called them The Fort Worth Doughboys. By 1934, Wills had formed his own band, moved to Tulsa, and signed with Okeh Records. Disc #2 covers 1937-1940, and disc #3 spans 1941-45. Disc #4 begins with 1946 and ends with Bob Wills' final session (1973 in Dallas).
It's important for such compilations to include a musician's big hits, as well as a sampling of their entire repertoire and influential pieces. We hear many favorites like "Big Ball in Cowtown," "Bubbles In My Beer," "Roly Poly," "Take Me Back to Tulsa" and "Stay A Little Longer." "San Antonio Rose" and "New San Antonio Rose" are both included, the former written in just 30 minutes when Wills needed another number at a recording session. Pandhandle Rag was a top ten hit in 1949. We're given the 1969 version here. Leon McAuliffe's influential "Steel Guitar Rag" appears on disc #1. In the 1960, Wills made the charts with "Shape Up or Ship Out" and "I Don't Love Nobody." Unfortunately, these songs are not provided. And how in the heck could they not have included "Across the Alley from the Alamo"? Oh well ... can't have everything.
With 105 tracks in total, this compilation certainly tells the musical story with both old-time fiddling (e.g. Osage Stomp) and country-styled jazz (e.g. Trouble in Mind, Basin Street Blues) well represented. But don't forget about the times that Bob Wills lived and played his music in, just after the Depression. Many of his fans were poor, the working folks in need of a charismatic performer to look up to. Somewhat of a folk hero, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys traveled the backroads to rural areas in a large bus with a big longhorn steer head on the front. With heavy emphasis on the backbeat and guitar chords played over a moving bass line, the music was infectious an designed for dancing. And then there were the great lyrics, often sung by the great Tommy Duncan. Excellent notes, in a booklet with many excellent historic photographs, are an added bonus in this legends series. All I can say, is that it's a moving tribute to a great musician. So, to quote Bob Wills, "Aaaaa-haaaa!" (Joe Ross, Roseburg, OR.)
Best Of: Legends of Country Music (W/Book) Poster
This collection includes 105 tracks in 4 CD's and is a breathtaking, in-depth overview of Willis' career in one package starting with his first recordings with the Fort Worth Doughboys in 1932. It explores the Playboys' epochal 1937-1947 ARC and Columbia recordings including "Steel Guitar Rad," "Twin Guitar Special," and his signature tune "New San Antonio Rose," as well as post-Columbia highlights like "Bubbles In My Beer" and the now-classic "Faded Love." It ends with selections from Wills' final session in 1973.Country Music CDs
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