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Take Me Back to Tulsa by Bob Wills & Texas Playboys Price: $22.99 Customer Review:  This is another one of those incredible deals floating around the Internet that sounds simply too good to be true: a four CD box set of the incredible Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys -- 109 tracks in all -- for $21.99? You're putting me on! Well, it's all true. These four CDs contain superb quality... |
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The King of Western Swing: 25 Hits (1935-1945) by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Price: $10.99 Customer Review: Columbia and its leasees have been reissuing recordings Bob Wills did with them in various aggregations since the mid 1970s when they let loose the original Bob Wills Anthology. Since then they have been putting out various combinations of the stuff from their years (1936-1946)in a way that if you... |
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The Essential Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Price: $10.99 Customer Review: It was not until the mid-90's that I heard about Bob Wills and a certain country genre known as Western Swing. I liked the description about the music that I'd read on a book and soon found me trying to track this CD down - without any previous listening! Well, right after I listened to it for the... |
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For the Last Time by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Price: $10.99 Customer Review: This was the last recording session Bob was ever in. He died shortly after this. A must for diehard Western Swing fans; has a good mix of his music. They did leave off one song that is one of his best - 'Maiden's Prayer' - but the rest are foot stompin' good! I happen to grow up with this music; I... |
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Anthology 1935-1973 by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Price: $31.98 Customer Review: Bob Wills (1905-1978) is known for the distinctive style of music called western swing. This two-volume CD has him at his best. All of the good ones are here, and the quality is surprisingly good for music that was originally recorded mostly in the 1940's. "Faded Love", "Deep Water", "San Antonio... |
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Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 5 by Bob Wills Price: $11.98 Customer Review: I have a lot of Bob Wills material, but this particular collection was definitely the best I have gathered so far. I favor the later stuff as opposed to the earlier stuff, and this is Western Swing at it's best. It really swings. A precursor to rock and roll. |
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Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 10: The McKinney Sisters by Bob Wills Price: $11.98 Customer Review: I can't play this cd without dancing. Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys show their chops, in this masterpiece. Bad to the bone guitar, pedal steel, violin. Bob is all over it, even singing scat! This recording is a must have for any fan of Real Texas music. |
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Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 9: 1946-47 by Bob Wills Price: $11.98 Customer Review: Incidentally, if you like the Hot Club of Cowtown, this is the period of Bob Wills music that most of their Western Swing tunes seek to replicate. Elana really has studied the great fiddling of Jim Joe Holly and Louis Tierny on these records, and Whit has really listened to the electric mandolin... |
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Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 2 by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Price: $11.98 Customer Review: Without getting into the history: this is just good music suitable for anyone at any time with ears. This is the real deal in regard to Western Swing. The Tiffany recordings were done for the Tiffany Furniture Company of Oakland in the period after WWII. They were sold to radio stations as music... |
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The Best of Bob Wills, Vol. 1 by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Price: $6.98 Customer Review:  If you are new to Bob Wills, you should know that this album title is a lie. These recordings were made in Nashville toward the end of Bob's life, and they do not capture the authentic sound of Bob Wills and HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS. The good stuff was recorded from 1935 to 1947 WITH HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS.... |
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Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 4: You're From Texas! by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Price: $11.98 Customer Review:  Without getting into the history: this is just good music suitable for anyone at any time with ears. This is the real deal in regard to Western Swing. The Tiffany recordings were done for the Tiffany Furniture Company of Oakland in the period after WWII. They were sold to radio stations as music... |
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Country Music Hall of Fame Series by Bob Wills Price: $7.98 Customer Review: Along with the "Historic Edition" CD, this is a good supplement for fans who have the core of Bob Wills hits on other discs and are now looking to broaden their collections. However, first-time buyers of music by this great musician would definitely do better with either "King of Lonestar Swing" or... |
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Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys: The Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol.3 - Basin Street Blues by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Price: $11.98 Customer Review: I can't play this cd without dancing. Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys show their chops, in this masterpiece. Bad to the bone guitar, pedal steel, violin. Bob is all over it, even singing scat! This recording is a must have for any fan of Real Texas music. |
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Encore by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys |
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![San Antonio Rose [Bear Family]](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000051XXN.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg)
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San Antonio Rose [Bear Family] by Bob Wills Price: $316.98 Customer Review: Bob Wills fused country, blues, jazz, and just about every other form of American music to produce Western Swing. Bear Family has done its usual fantastic job of assembling all the extant Columbia recordings of the Texas Playboys. They are in great sound and the book is absolutely stunning, complete... |
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Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 1 by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Price: $11.98 Customer Review: Incidentally, if you like the Hot Club of Cowtown, this is the period of Bob Wills music that most of their Western Swing tunes seek to replicate. Elana really has studied the great fiddling of Jim Joe Holly and Louis Tierny on these records, and Whit has really listened to the electric mandolin... |
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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bob Wills by Bob Wills Price: $11.98 Customer Review: ...kinda came along (for the ride). Great stuff. |
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Longhorn Recordings by Bob Wills Price: $19.99 Customer Review: The name Bob Wills is synonimous for Western Swing, everybody knows his great recordings from the 1930's to the 1950's, his band included names like Tommy Duncan, Leon McAuliffe, Herb Remington, Eldon Shamblin, Johnny Gimble and many, many others. This CD, another Bear Family beauty, shows the end... |
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King of Lonestar Swing by Bob Wills Price: $17.98 Customer Review: This is, for me, the best collection of Bob Wills music, because it is very generously filled (with 28 tracks, versus 32 on the two-CD "Anthology" collection) and contains all of his best songs. For anyone not familiar with Bob and the Texas Playboys, the music is a little hard to describe: I would... |
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Hall Of Fame by Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys Customer Review: This double LP compilation remastered on 1 CD by the one and only Steve Hoffman offers a western swing delight by offering many of his 1960-1963 recordings for Liberty and they include many remakes of his 30's-40's hits that are well done. As Rich Kienzle said, Bob did reunite with Tommy Duncan on... |
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Boot Heel Drag: The MGM Years by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Price: $29.98 Customer Review: This package is a must! While some feel that these recordings are a step down from the Columbia years of the 30s and early 40s, I feel like the MGM years are actually the realization of everything that came before. It's remarkable how much spirit there was in these recordings, considering Bob's... |
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Bob Wills - Greatest Hits by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Price: $9.98 Customer Review: My comments on "Bob Wills - Greatest Hits" are the same as for "Best of Bob Wills" and some of the other budget CDs. The music and performances are great, as is the remastering of the early recorded sound, but too many good pieces are missing. This is a hold-over from early CD years, before... |
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![Faded Love [Catfish]](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005N9GW.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg)
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Faded Love [Catfish] by Bob Wills |
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Ultimate Collection by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Price: $6.98 Customer Review: I had this CD and I lost it. I am buying it again and will lock it in my safe. For Texans and true fans of western swing, Bob Wills is the "God Father". Most of the great ones alive today modeled themselves after the "King of Western Swing". A true original artist. His music is pure Texas. I grew up... |
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Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - 24 Greatest Hits by Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Customer Review:  Usually, when you see the term "greatest hits" the first thing that comes to mind are hit singles by the artists concerned. That's to be expected because, in the era of Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, the hit single was the main goal of most. However this Polydor album, which first appeared in... |
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