Music CD - Bob Wills: Take Me Back to Tulsa

	Music CD: Take Me Back to Tulsa Artist: Bob Wills List Price: $25.98 Our Price: $20.88 Your Save: $ 5.10 ( 20% ) Availability: Usually ships in 5 to 7 days Manufacturer: Proper Box UK
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Tracks: 1. Nancy Jane - Fort Worth Doughboys 2. Sunbonnet Sue - Fort Worth Doughboys 3. Osage Stomp 4. Get With It 5. Spanish Two Step 6. Maiden's Prayer 7. I Ain't Got Nobody 8. Who Walks in When I Walk Out 9. Oklahoma Rag 10. Smith's Reel 11. Weary of the Same Ol' Stuff 12. No Matter How She Done It 13. Bluin' the Blues 14. Red Hot Gal of Mine 15. Steel Guitar Rag 16. What's the Matter With the Mill? 17. Sugar Blues 18. Basin Street Blues 19. Too Busy 20. Fan It 21. There's No Disappointment in Heaven 22. Swing Blues No. 1 23. Playboy Stomp 24. T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1) 25. Never No More Hard Times Blues 26. Oozlin' Daddy Blues
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0604988993226 Format: Box set Label: Proper Box UK Manufacturer: Proper Box UK Number Of Discs: 4 Publisher: Proper Box UK Release Date: 2001-12-03 Studio: Proper Box UK
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Emphasizing the SWING in Western Swing Comment: This 4-disc collection covers most of the history of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. It's a tremendous value! The recording quality is good and the included 52-page book contains a detailed look at the life and career of Wills and the band. I have collected a wide variety of Bob Wills recordings in the past 35 years, but this package ties it all together in chronological order. Listening to the music this way, I've been reminded more than ever that Western Swing really is a regional version of big-band jazz and dance music, not country music. However you want to look at it, Bob Wills music is the happiest music there is! I highly recommend this either as an introduction to Bob Wills or as a way to flesh out a collection. Customer Rating: Summary: Vonnegutian Comment: For musicianship, I rate Wills and the Playboys 5-star-plus, but his constant, inane running commentary earns a 0-stars. Wills sounds like Vonnegut's elevator operator from Cat's Cradle who says, "Yes, yes" when he gooses himself. Nothing soulful, musical, or interesting was added when Wills talked; in fact, it was annoying. He played a beautiful fiddle, but he shoulda shut his mouth. Customer Rating: Summary: amazing collection Comment: An incredible bargain ... the only surprise is that it doesn't have "Right or Wrong," which is on the one-disc "Essential" collection. Customer Rating: Summary: "What A Great Deal ! Comment: I own 2 other Bob Wills box sets - Anthology 1935 - 1973, which is a 2 CD set with a lot of good music on it, mostly old. I also have the box set "Encore" that has all Bob's newer stuff from the early 60's (when Tommy Duncan came back) to his recordings in the early 70's before his death (at this time in his career his band cosisted of a lot less members and no horns)both these sets are "pretty" good. But this set from Proper Records "Take me back to Tulsa" is one of the Best deals on the internet today. I paid about 18 bucks for this set "Brand New" and it has four CD's that are loaded with tons of great music going all the way back to when Bob was still playing with Milton Brown (Proper's box set "Milton Brown and his Brownies" is also pretty darn good,but it doesn't have that Wills Western Flair). Bottom line if you are a fan of Western Swing and can't afford at this time to put out about $700.00 for the two Outstanding Bear Family box sets then go for this one, over 100 Great songs you won't be disappointed....the price is right too! "Enjoy" Joe Kopeck - Parkville , MD. Customer Rating: Summary: "Come in, Tommy..." Comment: This boxed set is amazing for the sheer volume of wonderful music it proffers at a fraction of what one would expect to pay for it. Concentrating on the early years, it presents Bob Wills at the dawn of his recording career and continues through the height of his creativity. This is the cream of early Bob Wills, and contains about 60% of his very best material (I am long of the opinion that Bob Wills never made a bad record in his life, and he continued to be productive through his so-called "lean years" of the 1950's, 1960's and beyond). But these tracks are the classics that most fans cherish above all. Tommy Duncan, Wills' favorite featured vocalist, appears here on many sides, including Time Changes Everything (my personal Bob Wills favorite) and many others. Besides the early Columbia sides, there are examples of his Decca years and other smaller labels. A few of my own favorites include My Little Cherokee Maiden (close runner-up to Time Changes Everything as my favorite Bob Wills record) Sunbonnet Sue (recorded with Milton Brown and His Brownies before Bob formed the Playboys) Maiden's Prayer, Steel Guitar Rag, Basin Street Blues, San Antonio Rose, Silver Bells, Lone Star Rag (an overlooked masterpiece, and one of the catchiest instrumental tunes you've ever heard), Take Me Back To Tulsa, Miss Molly, My Confession, Roly Poly, Hawaiian War Chant, Sugar Moon, Bubbles In My Beer, Deep Water, Faded Love (which Bob wrote and Patsy Cline had a monster hit with) and I Laugh When I Think How I Cried Over You (what a great title!). For anyone who doesn't know, Bob Wills was a fiddle player who played his first professional gig as a young boy, substituting for his father at a barn dance. Although he grew up around Western music, the Wills family lived in a poor area where there were many black families, and very early he was exposed to and grew to love the Blues and other forms of traditional African-American music. Legend has it that he once rode fifty miles on horseback to attend a Bessie Smith recital, and was the only white person in the audience. He was one of the founding members of Milton Brown and His Brownies, the band credited with creating the style of music now known as Western Swing. When he started his own band, the Texas Playboys, he took a cue from Count Basie and included Brass, Horns and rhythm instruments, and if he couldn't claim to actually invent Western Swing, he certainly perfected it. In the 1940's he was one of the highest paid bandleaders in the US. Bob was most famous for his "calls" or "hollers". When the band got hot, he would frequently holler "Ahhhhh-hahhhh" or prod them along with such exclamations as "Take it away, Leon" or "Here's that old piano pounder". Or, if the band was playing below his expectations, he would shout, "Johnny in key, please" or virtually anything else that came into his mind. For many years during the height of his popularity, Bob and his music were rejected by the orthodox country music establishment for being too "jazzy" and ignored by the jazz world for being too "hillbilly". Western Swing is a blend of jazz and western music - it is primarily dance music, with a strong emphasis on vocals (like country), but it also includes jazz instruments like saxophone and trumpets. What makes it most unique are instruments that are traditionally associated with country music (like fiddles and steel guitars), being employed in a "swing" or jazz fashion. Any performance by Bob Wills Texas Playboys incorporates spotlight solos, improvisation and other musical trademarks generally associated with jazz. In other words, his band and his music are totally unique. Fortunately, there was a revival of interest in Bob Wills and his music which started in the 1960's and continues to this day. After his death in 1974, there was an explosion of new Western Swing bands, with young admirers anxious to copy the Bob Wills sound and keep Western Swing alive. Even country music has finally paid him his due, for today Bob Wills is proudly embraced and revered in country circles as a pioneer and a true original. He is now acknowledged as one of the first to incorporate African American rhythm and Jazz into country music, and his influence has been acknowledged by such diverse artists as Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and even Elvis Costello. If you are not familiar with Bob Wills, you can't go wrong with this set as an introduction, especially at this price. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: UK budget-price box-set featuring the pioneer of western swing, he played blues, rags, stomps, ballads and jazz in a style that became much imitated. 119 tracks and including a 52 page illustrated booklet. Four standard jewel cases housed in a slipcase. 2001.