Billy Jack Wills & His Western Swing Band

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Billy Jack Wills & His Western Swing Band
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Artist: Billy Jack Wills
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-11-12
Music Label: Joaquin Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Lonesome Hearted Blues
  2. Dipsy Doodle
  3. Johnson Rag
  4. Mr. Cotton Picker
  5. Air Mail Special
  6. Basin Street Blues
  7. I Don't Know
  8. Woodchopper's Ball
  9. Teardrops From My Eyes
  10. Tuxedo Junction
  11. Twin Guitar Special
  12. St. Louis Blues
  13. Blue Guitar Stomp
  14. Summit Ridge Drive
  15. Rock City Boogie
  16. C Jam Blues
  17. Get Along Home Cindy
  18. Steel Guitar Stomp
  19. Caravan

Music reviews of Billy Jack Wills & His Western Swing Band

Music Review: Tiny Moore a Master Musican
Rating: 5 Stars

This band was one of the very good second ranked Western Swing Bands going strong in the 1950s. It started when Bob Wills who based himself in Sacremento with his Music Ranch Wills Point decided to leave the area, leaving his brother Billy Jack there with the usual brother's farm team band. The real light of the band was Tiny Moore, fiddler and probably together with Jethro Burns the greatest electric mandolin player ever.
Tiny plays electric mandolin on these cuts and sings a lot of the better vocals. He does the announcing--this band never made any records; these tunes come recordings of their radio show.
Tiny stayed on becoming a major TV personality in Sacreto with a kids show and then a weather show I believe until Merle Haggard picked him up in the 1970 and made him a member of his band until his death.
Tiny plays with amazing musical fluidity. There are a lot of pure bop passages on this and its companion record. There is also a lot of stuff that's part of the turn to Rock and Roll, including a version of Billy Haley's Crazy Man Crazy. Of Course Haley had started out with a Western Swing band too!
The other players on these records are OK and spirited but nowhere near where Tiny was. What probably makes this easier or seem more evolved to more recent ears is that there is a lot here than is already gotten to or is at least on its way to rock and roll.
If you like Tiny check out the duet albums he did with Jethro Burns, with Eldon Shamblin doing the honors on rhythm guitar, and the great Ray Brown playing bass!
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