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| Artist: Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys |
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Product Summary
Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
Sample
1. Maiden's Prayer ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
2. Steel Guitar Rag ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
3. Right Or Wrong ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
4. Time Changes Everything ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
5. Corrine Corinna ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
6. Big Beaver ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
7. New San Antonio Rose ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
8. Take Me Back To Tulsa ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
9. Cherokee Maiden ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
10. Home In San Antone - (bonus track) ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
11. Miss Molly ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
12. My Confession ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
13. Texas Playboy Rag ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
14. Roly-Poly ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
15. Stay A Little Longer ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
16. Basin Street Blues ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Disc 2
Song Title
Sample
1. My Window Faces The South ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
2. Fat Boy Rag - (bonus track) ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
3. Three Guitar Special ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
4. Deep Water ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
5. Bubbles In My Beer ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
6. Blues For Dixie - (bonus track) ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
7. South - (bonus track) ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
8. Cotton Patch Blues ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
9. Boot Heel Drag ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
10. Faded Love ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
11. St. Louis Blues ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
12. Cadillac In Model "A" ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
13. Heart To Heart Talk - (with Tommy Duncan) ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
14. Jobob Rag, The - (with Tommy Duncan) ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
15. Blue Bonnet Lane ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
16. What Makes Bob Holler ~ Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Album Notes and Credits
Notes & Personnel Info |
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Rhino's double-disc Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys retrospective provides an invaluable service in collecting material from every phase of the group's career. From 1935's "Maiden's Prayer" to 1973's "What Makes Bob Holler," ANTHOLOGY follows Wills's journey through a flurry of different labels, vocalists, and band members, collecting along the way some of the most exuberant, accomplished Western Swing ever put to tape. Wills's mark on the genre is indelible; he not only helped make country danceable, he also combined it with soulful blues, folk idioms, boogie-woogie, and virtuoso jazz flourishes. |
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Each disc of ANTHOLOGY features 16 tracks cherry-picked to represent one of the band's many stylistic dimensions--ranging from honky tonk ("Time Changes Everything") to jump blues ("Big Beaver") to comic songs ("Roly Poly"). The original versions of Wills's biggest hits, including "New San Antonio Rose," the infectiously singable "Take Me Back to Tulsa," and "Bubbles in My Beer" (featuring the smooth croon of beloved Playboys vocalist Tommy Duncan), are here. In its breadth, arrangement, and quality, this is a definitive Bob Wills overview and--consequently--a slice of the best Western swing in the world. |
Producer: James Austin; Bob Fisher |
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Artist Overview
The first and greatest major figure of Western Swing music, Bob Wills (and his band the Texas Playboys) melded country fiddling, big-band swing, Tex-Mex music, polka, and other regional folk traditions into a new and sophisticated genre during the 1930s and 1940s. The style proved highly influential to subsequent generations of country artists. Merle Haggard so loved Wills's music and band that he recorded a tribute album to him and, after Wills retired in the late 1960s, he recruited many of the Texas Playboys for his own band.
Artist Influences
Bessie Smith | Cannon's Jug Stompers | Charlie Poole | Django Reinhardt | Eddie Lang | Emmett Miller (Country) | Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers | Jimmie Rodgers (Country) | Joe Venuti | King Oliver | Louis Armstrong | The Light Crust Doughboys | Tommy Dorsey (Trombone)
Bessie Smith | Cannon's Jug Stompers | Charlie Poole | Django Reinhardt | Eddie Lang | Emmett Miller (Country) | Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers | Jimmie Rodgers (Country) | Joe Venuti | King Oliver | Louis Armstrong | The Light Crust Doughboys | Tommy Dorsey (Trombone)
Artist Contemporaries
Al Stricklin | Asleep at the Wheel | Benny Goodman | Bill Boyd | Cliff Bruner | Count Basie & His Orchestra | Gene Autry | George Jones | George Strait | Hank Penny | Hank Thompson | Hank Williams | Jelly Roll Morton | Johnnie Lee Wills | Leon McAuliffe | Merle Haggard | Milton Brown | Milton Brown & His Brownies | Ole Rasmussen | Ray Price | Roy Acuff | Spade Cooley | Tex Williams | The Maddox Brothers & Rose | The Sons of the Pioneers | Tommy Duncan | Waylon Jennings | Willie Nelson
Al Stricklin | Asleep at the Wheel | Benny Goodman | Bill Boyd | Cliff Bruner | Count Basie & His Orchestra | Gene Autry | George Jones | George Strait | Hank Penny | Hank Thompson | Hank Williams | Jelly Roll Morton | Johnnie Lee Wills | Leon McAuliffe | Merle Haggard | Milton Brown | Milton Brown & His Brownies | Ole Rasmussen | Ray Price | Roy Acuff | Spade Cooley | Tex Williams | The Maddox Brothers & Rose | The Sons of the Pioneers | Tommy Duncan | Waylon Jennings | Willie Nelson
Artist Followers
Asleep at the Wheel | Big Sandy | Brad Paisley | Chet Atkins | Don Walser | George Jones | Jimmy Heap | Johnny Cash | Lefty Frizzell | Lyle Lovett | Merle Haggard | Roger Miller (Country) | Roy Orbison | The Hot Club of Cowtown | Wanda Jackson | Waylon Jennings
Asleep at the Wheel | Big Sandy | Brad Paisley | Chet Atkins | Don Walser | George Jones | Jimmy Heap | Johnny Cash | Lefty Frizzell | Lyle Lovett | Merle Haggard | Roger Miller (Country) | Roy Orbison | The Hot Club of Cowtown | Wanda Jackson | Waylon Jennings
Compilation Appearances
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American Roots Music |
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ROOTS OF ELVIS / VARIOUS |
Associated Artists and Works
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Tribute To The Music Of Bob Wills And... ~ Asleep At The Wheel |
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Bush, Johnny |
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Haggard, Merle |
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Jezzro, Jack |
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Langford, Jon |
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McKinney Sisters |
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Pine Valley Cosmonauts (The) |
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Playboys, Texas |
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Price, Ray |
Technical Info
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Release Date : 07/02/1991 |
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Original Release Date : 1991 |
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Catalog ID : 70744 |
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Label : Rhino |
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Number of Discs : 2 |
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Studio/Live : Studio |
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Mono/Stereo : Mixed |
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SPAR Code : AAD |
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UPC : 00081227074425 |
