Bob Wills - Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 8: More of the Best
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Artist: Bob WillsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-09-28
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Miss Molly
- Ten Years
- Blues For Dixie
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
- Sun Bonnet Sue
- Sitting On Top Of The World
- Big Beaver
- There's Gonna Be A Party For The Old Folks
- South
- Trouble In Mind
- Little Liza Jane
- Sioux City Sue
- My Confession
- Get Along Home Cindy
Free Music Notes for Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 8: More of the Best
Free Music Review: The real deal
Hit: 3 Stars
Incidentally, if you like the Hot Club of Cowtown, this is the period of Bob Wills music that most of their Western Swing tunes seek to replicate. Elana really has studied the great fiddling of Jim Joe Holly and Louis Tierny on these records, and Whit has really listened to the electric mandolin playing of Tiny Moore as well as the guitar playing of Junior Bernard and Eldon Shamblin. The Tiffanies are extra special. I can remember in the 1970s, when a friend of a friend of a friend who had some of the original transcriptions made some copies for me, and I carried them around like precious family heirlooms when I moved, never packed but always in my coat pockets. The transcriptions were made to be played on radio stations, at a time when Radio Stations didn't normally play regular records. They were all done quickly whenever the band was in the Oakland-San Fransisco area over the years of the mid 1940s.
People I know who heard the Texas Playboys live in the 1940s and 1950s say these recordings come closer to what the band actually sounded like compared to their releases on Columbia and later MGM. For one thing, they weren't forced to record mostly original songs, but could sample a broad repertoire. One of the good things about the Tiffanies, is that Will recorded all of his old recordings and you get to hear them with new personnel.
Wills' Playboys stay hot and heavy. There is none of the sweet swing, "businessman's bounce" that the Hollywood based Western swing contingent of the 1940s typified by Spade Cooley and Hank Penny. This is all down and dirty, bluesy, jazzy, music played hard with the combined abandon of Dixieland Jazz, West Texas Ranch Dance, and swing blues.
This and all the other Tiffanies are so great, you need them all!
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Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 8: More of the Best Poster
Volume 8 of the legendary Tiffany sessions focuses on many of the Wills band's best-known tunes. These versions have a looser feel than the studio recordings, and the band has the chance to stretch out a bit on "Sitting on Top of the World," "South," and "Trouble in Mind." Culled from eight different dates in 1946 and 1947, this collection shows many incarnations of the Playboys, including one with the underappreciated Junior Barnard on guitar. Famous Playboys such as singer Tommy Duncan, pianist Millard Kelso, steel men Noel Boggs and Herb Remington, mandolinist Tiny Moore, guitarist Eldon Shamblin, and fiddlers Joe Holley and Louis Tierney all have their say in between Wills's encouragements. Along with volume 2, this volume should be the entry point to the multivolume Tiffany Transcriptions. --Marc GreilsamerCountry Music CDs
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