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western swing at it's best:

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.

A tribute to Junior Barnard get the tiffanies for him:

One of the most important legacies of the Tiffany transcriptions is the work of Lester Barnard Junior, the great guitarist who played with Wills between 1945 and 1947. His tenure with the band is largely missing its Columbia recordings of the Day. Barnard was like Spade Cooley's steel Guitarist Joacquim Murphy: he would simply disappear for weeks, and months at a whim or an intuition, but would always return to the band. Until he returned to Fresno and had his own bands.

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it's fun dancing to bob wills and his texas playboys:

the tiffany transcriptions vol.#5 offers some of the best guitar and slide guitar picken basics for any guitar student wanting too learn solo guitar melodies. this style of picken can work with any style of music. i've used it with rock,jazz and blue's, the music notes always fit.

Tracks:

1. My Window Faces the South
2. Swing Blues No. 1
3. I Had Someone Else Before I Had You
4. Smooth One
5. Don't Cry Baby
6. Three Guitar Special
7. Chinatown
8. Fat Boy Rag
9. Lazy River
10. Sweet Georgia Brown
11. At the Woodchopper's Ball
12. Sweet Kind of Love
13. If It's Wrong to Love You
14. Little Bit of Boogie

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