Bob Wills was one of the country music personalities, who pioneered the style of Western Swing music

Bob Wills was one of the two country music personalities, along with Spade Cooley, who pioneered the style of Western Swing music during the 1930s and '40s, combining the standard approach of hillbilly country with jazz, blues and pop styles, and using expanded instrumental line-ups, to create a highly distinctive, sophisticated, infectious and entertaining strand of country music. Between 1935 and 1950, with a variety of different incarnations of his band The Texas Playboys, he recorded for Vocalion, Okeh, Columbia and MGM while establishing himself as a top radio star and successful 'live' attraction. This great-value 53-track 2-CD collection cherry-picks the highlights from the 300 or so recordings he made during the period, including, of course, the twenty or more Top 10 country hits he had after the establishing of the airplay chart for 'Folk' records during the '40s, with biggies like 'New San Antonio Rose', 'Smoke On The Water', 'Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima', 'Sugar Moon' and 'New Spanish Two Step'. While he remained a popular figure over the next two decades, his career was blighted by ill-health, and this collection provides a marvellously entertaining look at the real golden era of western swing. Includes comprehensive booklet notes, with complete recording session and personnel details

Track Listing

• Good Old Oklahoma
• Osage Stomp (Rukus Juice Shuffle)
• Sittin' On Top Of The World
• Wang Wang Blues
• Spanish Two Step
• Trouble In Mind
• Steel Guitar Rag
• Right Or Wrong
• Back Home Again In Indiana
• I'm A Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas
• Playboy Stomp
• Maiden's Prayer
• San Antonio Rose
• Liza, Pull Down The Shades
• Beaumont Rag
• Ida Red
• Medley Of Spanish Waltzes: La Golondrina, Lady Of Spain, Cielito Lindo
• New San Antonio Rose
• Bob Wills' Special
• Time Changes Everything
• Big Beaver
• Take Me Back To Tulsa
• Twin Guitar Special
• Corrine Corrina
• Cherokee Maiden
• Dusty Skies

• Let's Ride With Bob
• Home In San Antone
• You're From Texas
• We Might As Well Forget It
• Hang Your Head In Shame
• Smoke On The Water
• Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima
• You Don't Care What Happens To Me
• Silver Dew On The Blue Grass Tonight
• Texas Playboy Rag
• White Cross On Okinawa
• New Spanish Two Step
• Roly Poly
• I Can't Go On This Way
• Stay A Little Longer
• I'm Gonna Be Boss From Now On
• Brain Cloudy Blues
• Sugar Moon
• Bob Wills' Boogie
• This Is Southland
• Bubbles In My Beer
• Texarkana Baby
• Keeper Of My Heart
• Thorn In My Heart
• Don't Be Ashamed Of Your Age
• Ida Red Likes The Boogie
• Faded Love

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Country

Language: English

Run Time: 141 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 07/08/16

UPC: 824046316327