King Of Western Swing

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Cat No: JSPCD7770

Release Date: 23 April 2007

Label: JSP

Packaging Type: Box Set

No of Units: 4

Barcode: 788065777029

Genres: Rock

Description
No genre of music is conjured-up over night by one person and certainly many artists helped to create western swing.

For all that, there can be no denying that fiddle playing Bob Wills was the 'main man' - who assimilated music from outside the rural scene, most notably jazz and blues, to create a unique musical form.

When Wills and his Texas Playboys made their first records in September 1935 their opening number was "Osage Stomp".

Members of the personnel at that first date were Bob's brother, banjo player Johnny Lee Wills and guitarist 'Sleepy' Johnson.

Some years later they recalled that they'd been copying a jazz band's recording of "Ruckus Juice Shuffle" - presumably the 1932 cut made by the Memphis Night Hawks.

This four CD set, the first in a complete and definitive series, presents the first 100 commercially issued titles to feature the one and only Bob Wills.

They have been expertly remastered from 78s in the legendary Joe Bussard collection.
Tracklisting
1. Sunbonnet Sue
2. Nancy Jane
3. Osage Stomp
4. Get With It
5. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
6. Spanish Two Step
7. Maiden's Prayer
8. Wang Wang Blues
9. St. Louis Blues
10. Good Old Oklahoma
11. Blue River
12. Mexicali Rose
13. I Ain't Got Nobody
14. Never No More Blues
15. Who Walks In When I Walk Out
16. Old Fashioned Love
17. Oklahoma Rag
18. Black And Blue Rag
19. Sittin' On Top Of The World
20. Four Or Five Times
21. I Can't Be Satisfied
22. Smith's Reel
23. Harmony
24. She's Killing Me
25. Weary Of The Same Old Stuff
2.1. No Matter How Seh Done It
2.2. Bluin' The Blues
2.3. Steel Guitar Rag
2.4. Get Along Home Cindy
2.5. Trouble In Mind
2.6. What's The Matter With The Mill
2.7. Sugar Blues
2.8. Basin Street Blues
2.9. Red Hot Gal Of Mine
2.10. Too Busy
2.11. Back Home Again In Indiana
2.12. Fan It
2.13. Mean Mama Blues
2.14. Bring It On Down To My House
2.15. Right Or Wrong
2.16. Swing Blues #1
2.17. Swing Blues #2
2.18. White Heat
2.19. Dedicated To You
2.20. Playboy Stomp
2.21. Steel Guitar Stomp
2.22. Rosetta
2.23. Bleeding Hearted Blues
2.24. Tie Me To Your Apron Strings Again
2.25. Never No More Hard Times Blues
3.1. Sunbonnet Sue
3.2. New St. Louis Blues
3.3. I'm A Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas
3.4. Oozlin' Daddy Blues
3.5. Black Rider
3.6. Everybody Does It In Hawaii
3.7. Alexander's Ragtime Band
3.8. Blue Prelude
3.9. Sophisticated Hula
3.10. Pray For The Lights To Go Out
3.11. Gambling Polka Dot Blues
3.12. Keep Knocking (But You Can't Come In)
3.13. Loveless Love
3.14. Oh Lady Be Good
3.15. Way Down Upon The Swanee River
3.16. Oh You Beautiful Doll
3.17. Moonlight And Roses (Bring Mem'ries Of You)
3.18. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
3.19. Tulsa Stomp
3.20. Empty Bed Blues
3.21. Little Red Head
3.22. San Antonio Rose
3.23. Little Girl Go Ask Your Mama
3.24. Carolina In The Morning
3.25. Convict And The Rose
4.1. Silver Bells
4.2. Dreamy Eyes Waltz
4.3. Beaumont Rag
4.4. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
4.5. If I Could Bring Back My Buddy
4.6. Whoa Babe
4.7. Ida Red
4.8. Yearning (Just For You)
4.9. I Wonder If You Feel The Way I Do
4.10. Prosperity Special
4.11. Drunkard's Blues
4.12. You're Okay
4.13. Liza Pull Down The Shades
4.14. That's What I Like 'Bout The South
4.15. My Window Faces The South
4.16. Waltz You Saved For Me
4.17. Don't Let The Deal Go Down
4.18. You Don't Love Me (But I'll Always Care)
4.19. No Wonder
4.20. Lone Star Rag
4.21. There's Going To Be A Party (For The Old Folks)
4.22. I Don't Lov'a Nobody
4.23. That Brownskin Gal
4.24. Corrine Corrina