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Buy Now	Fiddlin' Man: The Life and Times of Bob Wills (more) »rank: 39100 starring: Bob Wills :Description:Bob Wills etched his way into America’s heart with his whoops and hollers, his dancing fiddle and the inimitable sounds of his band, the Texas Playboys. Out of the dustbowl Depression days Wills rose, fiddle in hand, creating the music that lifted the nation’s spirit. Western swing: an irresistible combination of the raw tunes of Texas field workers, the soulful country blues, swinging horns of big band jazz and the jumping, joyous sounds of Country Western strings. This original documentary takes a nostalgic look back at the heyday of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys from their early days at KVOO radio- 'The ...	Buy Now	America's Most Colorful Hillbilly Band (more) »rank: 134218 by: The Maddox Brothers & Rose : :The Maddox Brothers & Rose were America's most colorful hillbilly band all right, and not just because they wore snazzy sequined Western suits that screamed louder than a blast of TNT. Everything they did was at the top of their lungs, from sister Rose's effectively braying twang and tittering, high-pitched asides to the brothers' nuclear-charged postwar fusion of boogie-woogie, Western swing, and California honky-tonk. Most colorful of all was the group's aesthetic--unabashed emotionalism on a poignant gospel ballad such as 'When I Lay My Burden Down' alternating with broad comedy displayed on covers of 'Milk Cow Blues' and 'Honky Tonkin'.' 'Got a hillbilly ...
Buy Now	A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World/It's All in the Movies (more) »rank: 22395 by: Merle Haggard, Merle Haggard & the Strangers :Album Description:Remastered. If any one album deserves credit for ushering in the Western swing revival, it's this previously buried treasure from 1970. Haggard taught himself to play fiddle before recording this album and augmented his band with members of Wills's pioneering Texas Playboys, including guitarist Eldon Shamblin and fiddler Johnny Gimble. Merle would become a more fluid fiddler in the future, and the Strangers would swing more cohesively, but that doesn't take away from the chemistry or adventurousness in this, his first effort in the genre. BGO. 2006.	Buy Now	Greatest Children's Christmas Hits (more) »rank: 53138 by: Gene Autry, Lynn Anderson, Merle Haggard :Album Description:Remastered. If any one album deserves credit for ushering in the Western swing revival, it's this previously buried treasure from 1970. Haggard taught himself to play fiddle before recording this album and augmented his band with members of Wills's pioneering Texas Playboys, including guitarist Eldon Shamblin and fiddler Johnny Gimble. Merle would become a more fluid fiddler in the future, and the Strangers would swing more cohesively, but that doesn't take away from the chemistry or adventurousness in this, his first effort in the genre. BGO. 2006.
Buy Now	Uncorked (more) »rank: 53450 by: Christmas Jug Band : :The release of this CD marks the silver anniversary of that momentary lapse of sanity grown to ubiquitous proportions -- The Christmas Jug Band. The irreverent crew of Dan Hicks, Austin deLone (Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello), Tim Eschliman (Commander Cody, Etta James, Rhythmtown-Jive), Paul Rogers (Those Darn Accordions!), Jim Rothermel (Jesse Colin Young, Van Morrison), Adam Gabriel (Hank Ballard & The Midnighters), Lance Dickerson (Commander Cody) and Blake Richardson (Bobby Hebb) deliver a dozen season-stopping classics led by the great Rogers classic already making a buzz, Santa Lost A Ho. Also features founding member Nick Dewey & Paul Wenninger, as well as ...	Buy Now	Dev'lish Mary (more) »rank: 35145 by: Hot Club of Cowtown : :While this trio's earlier efforts at minimalist Western swing tended to be tepid and tentative at times, plagued by the most obvious song choices, nearly all those drawbacks have vanished for this third release. Along with more inventive arrangements, Whit Smith's guitar echoes the rhythm genius of former Texas Playboy Eldon Shamblin and jazzman George Barnes's vinegary tone. More remarkable is Elana Fremerman's dramatically improved fiddling. While it's no small achievement to capture the unrelenting swing of former Playboy fiddlers Jesse Ashlock and Louis Tierney, she does that consistently. Assisted in spots by guest cornetist Peter Ecklund and ex-Bob Wills steel guitarist Bobby ...
Buy Now	Yodel the Cowboy Way (more) »rank: 19683 by: Riders in the Sky : :While this trio's earlier efforts at minimalist Western swing tended to be tepid and tentative at times, plagued by the most obvious song choices, nearly all those drawbacks have vanished for this third release. Along with more inventive arrangements, Whit Smith's guitar echoes the rhythm genius of former Texas Playboy Eldon Shamblin and jazzman George Barnes's vinegary tone. More remarkable is Elana Fremerman's dramatically improved fiddling. While it's no small achievement to capture the unrelenting swing of former Playboy fiddlers Jesse Ashlock and Louis Tierney, she does that consistently. Assisted in spots by guest cornetist Peter Ecklund and ex-Bob Wills steel guitarist Bobby ...	Buy Now	16 Biggest Hits (more) »rank: 38386 by: Merle Haggard : :Hag went into the studio in October 1994 to rerecord his Capitol classics of the 1960s and early 1970s. Thirteen of these 16 cuts come from that session--perfectly fine versions, but not the original versions--while three early-1980s Epic recordings round out the collection. Still, fans who want to hear the Capitol chestnuts in their original form should strongly consider the outstanding two-CD Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology. --Marc Greilsamer
Buy Now	Tales from the Ozone (more) »rank: 124259 by: Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen :Album Description:Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen were a country rock group who made numerous critically acclaimed albums throughout the 1970's and into the 1980's. Tales From The Ozone hit the Billboard charts in 1975, reaching # 168. It is now being issued on CD for the first time anywhere in the world. Wounded Bird. 2003.	Buy Now	The Cowboy Way (more) »rank: 16785 by: Riders in the Sky :Album Description:Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen were a country rock group who made numerous critically acclaimed albums throughout the 1970's and into the 1980's. Tales From The Ozone hit the Billboard charts in 1975, reaching # 168. It is now being issued on CD for the first time anywhere in the world. Wounded Bird. 2003.