Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

The True Club of Spade, but not what you think is!:

Neither Bob Wills nor certainly not Spade Cooley would have seen themselves as part of "Country" music in their heyday. They would have felt insulted to be included in the same business as Roy Acuff or even Ernest Tubb. They saw themselves as part of the big band music, and pop Jazz of the Hollywood Studio variety. Especially Cooley, but also Wills, hired people from and lost people to big white swing bands. Jimmy Wyble who played leader guitar with both and helped set the guitar trio sound that was... more info

this is the real stuff:

I was introduced to Western Swing Music by the music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. This is better! Spade Cooley's band swings much harder then Bob Wills' ever did. His life (Spade Cooley's) would make a great made for t.v. movie, but that's another story. What's important here is the music, and wow, is it great!

Spadella Hotter'n'hella!:

Every musical era has a peak, and for me, these mid-forties 'Columbia/Okeh' treasures are the absolute pinnacle of 'Western Swing'. This album cooks even at a simmer, but when it reaches the boiling point, the playing here is astounding, with Spade Cooley's fiddle on fire, and the band right there fueling the flames. 'Oklahoma Stomp' is a guitar/drum tour de force with Spade's fiddle as kindling. On 'Three Way Boogie', accordianist George Bambi, Cooley, and guitarist Joaquin Murphey burn the barn---some of... more info

Tracks:

1. Troubled Over You
2. Oklahoma Stomp [Instrumental]
3. You Can't Break My Heart
4. Detour
5. Crazy 'Cause I Love You
6. Swinging the Devil's Dream [Instrumental]
7. Shame on You
8. Forgive Me One More Time
9. You Better Do It Now
10. Steel Guitar Rag [Instrumental]
11. You'll Rue the Day
12. You Never Miss the Water
13. I Guess I've Been Dreaming Again
14. Pair of Broken Hearts
15. Cow Bell Polka [Instrumental]
16. Hide Your Face

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