The Complete Published Sides Vol. 1: 1935-1940
Bob Wills
JSP (UK), 2007
4 CD
Catalogue #: 7770
EAN: 0788065777029
UPC: 788065777029
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Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: Bob Wills (fiddle).
Personnel: Milton Brown (vocals); Derwood Brown, Herman Arnspiger, Clifford 'Sleepy' Johnson, Eldon Shamblin (guitar); William Leon McAuliffe (electric guitar); C.G. 'Sleepy' Johnson (tenor guitar); Johnny Lee Wills (tenor banjo); Jesse Thedford Ashlock, Arthur D. 'Art' Haynes, Ruth McMaster, Jesse Ashlock (fiddle); Ray DeGeer, Charles Laughton (clarinet); Robert 'Zeb' McNally (alto saxophone); Thomas Elmer 'Tommy' Duncan (tenor saxophone); Everett Stover (trumpet); Alton Meeks 'Al' Stricklin, Al Stricklin (piano); Son Lansford, Thomas C. 'Son' Lansford, Frank Ferguson (bass instrument); William E. 'Smokey' Dacus (drums).
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Bob Wills
The first and greatest major figure of Western Swing music, Bob Wills (and his band the Texas Playboys) melded country fiddling, big-band swing, Tex-Mex music, polka, and other regional folk traditions into a new and sophisticated genre during the 1930s and 1940s. The style proved highly influential to subsequent generations of country artists. Merle Haggard so loved Wills's music and band that he recorded a tribute album to him and, after Wills retired in the late 1960s, he recruited many of the Texas Playboys for his own band.
