Revisiting Western Swing

Tue, Jan 31, 2017

“Western swing is nothing more than a group of talented country boys, unschooled in music, but playing the music they feel, beating a solid two-four rhythm to the harmonies that buzz around their brains. When it escapes in all its musical glory, my friend, you have Western swing.”
– Merle Travis

Artist Song Album Record Label Year/Comments
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Ida Red Likes the Boogie
Carson Robison's Madcaps Nonsense
The East Texas Serenaders Acorn Stomp
Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers Houston Slide
Spade Cooley Haas Stomp
Zeke Manners & His Swingbillies Organ Grinder's Blues
Milton Brownie & His Brownies Long Long Ago
Jimmie Revard & His Oklahoma Playboys Oh Swing It
Light Crust Doughboys Horsie Keep Your Tail Up
Hardrock Gunter Fallen Angel
Cliff Bruner Sorry I Will Say I'm Sorry
Milton Brown & His Brownies Bring It On Down to My House Honey
Leon McAuliffe Steel Guitar Rag
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Texas Playboy Rag
The Sons of The Pioneers Hold That Critter Down
Lew Preston Maid of Mexico
Light Crust Doughboys Sittin' on Top of the World
The Prairie Ramblers Strut Your Material
Cliff Bruner Corrine Corrina
The Nite Owls Whats Yo Name?
Spade Cooley & His Western Swingin Gang The Trouble With Me
Tex Williams Talking Boogie
Milton Brown & His Brownies Washington & Lee Swing
Modern Mountaineers Everybody's Truckin'
Patsy Montana I Wanna Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart
Al Dexter & His Troopers Pistol Packin' Mama
Bob Wills Milk Cow Blues
Adolph Hofner I'll Keep My Old Guitar
Merle Travis So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed
Lefty Frizzell If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time
The Maddox Brothers Mean & Wicked Boogie
Bill Boyd & Cowboy Ramblers New Steel Guitar Rag
Los Arrerrios & Quebe Sisters Exerpt from Smithsonian Festival 2008
Pokey La Farge Good Country Girls
The Riders in the Sky The Yodel Blues
Asleep at the Wheel Bob Wills is Still King

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