5-CD box (LP-size) with 60-page book, 123 tracks. Playing time approx. 497 mns

Fiddler Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers were one of the most important and exciting bands in Texas Swing history, a group that stirred countless others and bridged the gap between the western swing sound of the '30s and the honky-tonk sound of the '40s. Not only did Bruner introduce such enduring classics as It Makes No Difference Now, I'll Keep On Loving You, and Truck Driver's Blues, he also is one of the most revered and influential fiddle players in American music, an unmistakable, inventive and hard-swinging player, captured here at the height of his powers.

This 5-CD set collects all of Bruner's recordings as a full-time bandleader from 1937-1950, 123 songs cut for Decca, Mercury and Ayo, including the classics mentioned above and others, like Cliff Bruner's signature tune Jessie and his early cover of Milk Cow Blues. The cream of Texas western swing instrumentalists are here, like Bob Dunn, Leo Raley, Link Davis, Dickie McBride, and Moon Mullican who - in his recordings with Bruner - defined the style that would make him a postwar country star. Produced with Cliff's full cooperation, this set is an amazing testimony to an overlooked talent. A lavishly illustrated 56-page book with a biographical essay and discography by Kevin Coffey is included.

Track Listing

• So Tired
• Milk Cow Blues
• The Right Key
• You Got To Hi De Hi
• Shine
• Can't Nobody Truck Like Me
• Bringin' Home The Bacon
• Under The Silvery Moon
• Corrine, Corrina
• Four Or Five Times
• In The Blue Of The Night
• Oh Your Pretty Woman
• I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O'This Jelly..
• Old Fashioned Love
• Oh How I Miss You Tonight
• One Sweet Letter From You
• Dream Train
• Sunbonnet Sue
• To-Night You Belong To Me
• By A Window At The End Of The Lane
• Girl Of My Dreams
• I Saw Your Face In The Moon
• Red Lips - Kiss My Blues Away
• You Can Depend On Me
• In The Blue Of The Night (alt)
• Shine (alt)
• Can't Nobody Truck Like Me (alt)

• Sugar
• My Daddy, My Mother And Me
• Truckin' On Down
• River, Stay Way From My Door
• Baby Won't You Please Come Home
• Beaumont Rag
• Annie Laurie
• Bring It On Home To Grandma
• Ease My Wearied Mine
• Remember
• It Makes No Difference Now
• My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean
• Over Moonlit Waters
• Draggin' The Bow
• Yearning Just For You
• Old Joe Turner Blues
• When You're Smiling
• Sister Kate
• Sittin' On The Moon
• Kangaroo Blues
• I'll Keep On Loving You
• I Hate To Lose You
• Jessie
• Over The Hill
• I'll Keep On Smiling
• Truck Driver's Blues

• I'm Tired Of You
• Because
• I'll Forgive You
• I'm Still In Love With You
• Stardust
• The Other Way
• Peggy Lou
• Singin' The Low Down Blues Down Low
• It's All Over Now
• Tell Me Why Little Girl Tell Me Why
• Girl That You Loved Long Ago
• Little White Lies
• Kelly Swing
• San Antonio Rose
• Take Me Back Again
• You Don't Love Me But I'll Always Care
• I'm Headin' For That Ranch In The Sky
• Over The Trail
• Ten Pretty Girls
• Sorry
• Sorry (alt)
• Sparkling Blue Eyes
• New Falling Rain Blues
• New Falling Rain Blues (alt)
• I'll Keep Thinking Of You
• Neath The Purple On The Hills

• Draft Board Blues
• I'll Be Faithful
• Jesse's Sister
• Let Me Smile My Last Smile At You
• Tequila Rag
• Red River Rose
• My Time Will Come Someday
• The Sun Has Gone Down On Our Love
• If It's Wrong To Love You
• Born To Be Blue
• Baby What You're Doing To Me
• Snowflakes
• That's What I Like About The South
• You Took Everything
• My Pretty Blonde
• You Always Hurt The One You Love
• Don't Make Me Blue
• A Mother Gave A Son
• I'll Try Not To Cry
• Won't You Mend My Aching Heart
• Roadhouse Rag
• Too Wet To Plow

• Lucille From Mobile
• You Were All The World To Me
• You Took Advantage Of A Lonely Heart
• Baby What You Doing To Me
• Santa Fe Waltz
• Rio Grande Polka
• Unfaithful One
• San Antonio Blues
• Out Of Business
• Mr. Postman
• Ouch
• You Better Do Better Baby
• Hard Luck Blues
• Sweetest Little Danny
• I Was A Gambler In Texas
• You've Got To Give Me What's Mine
• I'm Dying By Pieces Dear

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Country

Run Time: 497 mins

Release Date: 01/02/07

UPC: 4000127159328