Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys: The Tiffany Transcriptions, Volume 2 - Best of the Tiffanys

 

Genre: Western Swing

Dates: 1946-1947

All the greatest tunes by the greatest Western swing band of all-time, recorded in a California radio studio in 1946-1947 at their most spontaneous. Wills' unit was equally adept at fiddle tunes, polkas, pop, blues, jazz, ragtime, Dixieland, folk songs—everything under the sun. As such, they prophesied the arrival of Elvis, who of course recorded one of their tunes. Wills was a revolutionary in another way: he insisted on adding drums to what's essentially country music, moving it out of the hills and plains into the city in the process, and employed electric guitarists who loved dirty noise (check out Junior Barnard's solos). Oh, yes—when you put this in the CD player, be prepared to dance, because the roll call of tunes includes "Stay a Little Longer," "Roly Poly," "Cotton-Eyed Joe," and the eternal "San Antonio Rose."

Playlist:

1. Take Me Back To Tulsa
2. Faded Love
3. Right Or Wrong - (previously unreleased)
4. Bring It On Down To My House
5. Cherokee Maiden
6. Steel Guitar Rag
7. Stay A Little Longer -(previously unreleased)
8. Roly Poly
9. Cotton Eyed Joe
10. Time Changes Everything
11. Corrine, Corrina
12. Ida Red
13. Maiden's Prayer
14. San Antonio Rose