Best Of: Legends of Country Music (W/Book)

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Best Of: Legends of Country Music (W/Book)

Best Of: Legends of Country Music (W/Book)
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Artist: Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-08-29
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Sunbonnet Sue
  2. Nancy Jane
  3. Osage Stomp
  4. Get with It
  5. Spanish Two Step
  6. Maiden's Prayer
  7. I Ain't Got Nobody
  8. Who Walks in When I Walk Out
  9. Oklahoma Rag
  10. Sittin' on Top of the World
  11. I Can't Be Satisfied
  12. Waltz in D
  13. She's Killing Me
  14. Bluin' the Blues
  15. Steel Guitar Rag
  16. Trouble in Mind
  17. What's the Matter with the Mill
  18. Basin Street Blues
  19. Red Hot Gal of Mine
  20. Too Busy
  21. Crippled Turkey
  22. Bring It on Down to My House, Honey
  23. Right or Wrong
  24. Swing Blues #1
  25. White Heat
Music CD 2
  1. Steel Guitar Stomp
  2. Rosetta
  3. Blue Yodel #1
  4. I'm a Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas)
  5. Oozlin' Daddy Blues
  6. Black Rider
  7. Down Hearted Blues
  8. Pray for the Lights to Go Out
  9. San Antonio Rose
  10. Silver Bells
  11. Beaumont Rag
  12. Whoa Babe
  13. Ida Red
  14. Yearning
  15. I Wonder If You Feel the Way I Do
  16. Prosperity Special
  17. You're Okay
  18. Liza Pull Down the Shades
  19. That's What I Like 'Bout the South
  20. My Window Faces the South
  21. Don't Let the Deal Go Down
  22. Lone Star Rag
  23. That Brownskin Gal
  24. Corrine Corrina
  25. Time Changes Everything
  26. Bob Wills Special
  27. Big Beaver
Music CD 3
  1. New San Antonio Rose
  2. Liebestraum
  3. Lyla Lou
  4. Maiden's Prayer
  5. The Girl I Left Behind Me
  6. I Knew the Moment I Lost You
  7. Twin Guitar Special
  8. Take Me Back to Tulsa
  9. Takin' It Home
  10. Cherokee Maiden
  11. Dusty Skies
  12. My Life's Been a Pleasure
  13. Drop Us off at Bob's Place
  14. Home in San Antone
  15. That Hot Lick Fiddlin' Man
  16. Miss Molly
  17. My Confession
  18. Ten Years
  19. Let's Ride with Bob
  20. Bluer Than Blue
  21. Hand Your Head in Shame
  22. Texas Playboy Rag
  23. Roly Poly
  24. Stay a Little Longer
  25. I Can't Go on This Way
  26. I'm Thru Wasting Time on You
  27. New Spanish Two Step
Music CD 4
  1. Sugar Moon
  2. Brain Cloudy Blues
  3. Bob Wills Boogie
  4. Fat Boy Rag
  5. The Kind of Love I Can't Forget
  6. Hometown Stomp
  7. Misery
  8. Deep Water
  9. Bubbles in My Beer
  10. Papa's Jumpin'
  11. Sally Goodin'
  12. Still Water Runs the Deepest
  13. Blues for Dixie
  14. Keeper of My Heart
  15. Ida Red Likes to Boogie
  16. Boot Heel Drag
  17. Faded Love
  18. St. Louis Blues
  19. Cadillac in Model "A"
  20. Heart to Heart Talk
  21. Wabash Blues
  22. A Big Ball in Cowtown (We'll Dance Around)
  23. Pan Handle Rag
  24. Blue Bonnet Lane
  25. What Makes Bob Holler
  26. 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.

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