Best Of: Legends of Country Music

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This collection includes 105 tracks in 4 CD's and is a breathtaking, in-depth overview of Willis' career in one package starting with his first recordings with the Fort Worth Doughboys in 1932. It explores the Playboys' epochal 1937-1947 ARC and Columbia recordings including "Steel Guitar Rad," "Twin Guitar Special," and his signature tune "New San Antonio Rose," as well as post-Columbia highlights like "Bubbles In My Beer" and the now-classic "Faded Love." It ends with selections from Wills' final session in 1973.

Title Tracks for Best Of: Legends of Country Music (W/Book)

1. Sunbonnet Sue
2. Nancy Jane
3. Osage Stomp
4. Get With It
5. Spanish Two Step
6. Maiden's Prayer
7. I Ain't Got Nobody
8. Who Walks In When I Walk Out
9. Oklahoma Rag
10. Sittin' On Top Of The World
11. I Can't Be Satisfied
12. Waltz In D
13. She's Killing Me
14. Bluin' The Blues
15. Steel Guitar Rag
16. Trouble In Mind
17. What's The Matter With The Mill
18. Basin Street Blues
19. Red Hot Gal Of Mine
20. Too Busy
21. Crippled Turkey
22. Bring It On Down To My House, Honey
23. Right Or Wrong
24. Swing Blues #1
25. White Heat
26. Steel Guitar Stomp
27. Rosetta
28. Blue Yodel No.1
29. I'm A Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas)
30. Oozlin' Daddy Blues
31. Black Rider
32. Down Hearted Blues
33. Pray For The Lights To Go Out
34. San Antonio Rose
35. Silver Bells
36. Beaumont Rag
37. Whoa Babe
38. Ida Red
39. Yearning
40. I Wonder If You Feel The Way I Do
41. Prosperity Special
42. You're Okay
43. Liza Pull Down The Shades
44. That's What I Like 'Bout The South
45. My Window Faces The South
46. Don't Let The Deal Go Down
47. Lone Star Rag
48. That Brownskin Gal
49. Corrine Corrina
50. Time Changes Everything
51. Bob Wills Special
52. Big Beaver
53. New San Antonio Rose
54. Liebestraum
55. Lyla Lou
56. Maiden's Prayer
57. The Girl I Left Behind Me
58. I Knew The Moment I Lost You
59. Twin Guitar Special
60. Take Me Back To Tulsa
61. Takin' It Home
62. Cherokee Maiden
63. Dusty Skies
64. My Life's Been A Pleasure
65. Drop Us Off At Bob's Place
66. Home In San Antone
67. That Hot Lick Fiddlin' Man
68. Miss Molly
69. My Confession
70. Ten Years
71. Let's Ride With Bob
72. Bluer Than Blue
73. Hang Your Head In Shame
74. Texas Playboy Rag
75. Roly Poly
76. Stay A Little Longer
77. I Can't Go On This Way
78. I'm Thru Wasting Time On You
79. New Spanish Two Step
80. Sugar Moon
81. Brain Cloudy Blues
82. Bob Wills Boogie
83. Fat Boy Rag
84. The Kind Of Love I Can't Forget
85. Hometown Stomp
86. Misery
87. Deep Water
88. Bubbles In My Beer
89. Papa's Jumpin'
90. Sally Goodin'
91. Still Water Runs The Deepest
92. Blues For Dixie
93. Keeper Of My Heart
94. Ida Red Likes The Boogie
95. Boot Heel Drag
96. Faded Love
97. St. Louis Blues
98. Cadillac In Model 'A'
99. Heart To Heart Talk
100. Wabash Blues
101. A Big Ball In Cowtown (We'll Dance Around)
102. Pan Handle Rag
103. Blue Bonnet Lane
104. What Makes Bob Holler
105. Goin' Away Party

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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful

A moving tribute to a great musician !, September 22, 2006

J. Ross "a-music_fan" (Roseburg, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Of: Legends of Country Music (W/Book) (Audio CD)

Born to a poor family in Limestone County, Texas, Bob Wills (the undisputed "King of Western Swing") has become synonymous with that style of music. In 2006, this 4-disc release in Columbia "Legends of Country Music" series is a great way to celebrate his centennial! Wills had learned to play the fiddle by age ten. By the late 1920s, he and Herman Arnspiger were performing in the Fort Worth area as The Wills Fiddle Band. In 1931, they were joined by Milton & Durwood Brown and called themselves Aladdin's Laddies. Disc #1 in this set begins in 1932 with recordings of The Light Crust Doughboys, the band formed after the Light Crust Flour Co. hired the band for radio broadcasts. Because of a trademark, Victor Records called them The Fort Worth Doughboys. By 1934, Wills had formed his own band, moved to Tulsa, and signed with Okeh Records. Disc #2 covers 1937-1940, and disc #3 spans 1941-45. Disc #4 begins with 1946 and ends with Bob Wills' final session (1973 in Dallas).

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful

What makes Bob holler?, October 2, 2006

A. W. Schott (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Of: Legends of Country Music (W/Book) (Audio CD)

I must own about 30 Bob Wills cd's and this has made many of them obsolete. If you are a Bob Wills fan there is no need for me to convince you of Will's and his band's virtuosity. For those of you who aren't familiar with Bob Wills and western swing music, I think you owe it a hearing. Wills mixed blues, jazz, big band, and western music and literally invented what we know as western swing. The list of great musicians who played with this band are impressive. Not many people realize that Rolling Stone magazine selected Eldon Shamblin as the greatest rhythm guitar player of all time.

The recording quality of this cd is so far above everything else I've heard that it must be stressed here.

What makes Bob Holler? If he were alive today this reproduction of his great music would!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

Love Western Swing, June 7, 2007

Doris Mcintosh - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best Of: Legends of Country Music (W/Book) (Audio CD)

My husband and I have been a Bob Wills fan for many years. He is 80 and a collector of Bob Wills music. He was truly the "King of Western Swing" and this is a wonderful collection of his music.