Track Listing

1. Basin Street Blues
2. I'm A Ding Dong Daddy
3. Crazy Rhythm
4. Milk Cow Blues
5. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
6. Four Or Five Times
7. Frankie Jean
8. It's Your Red Wagon
9. A Good Man Is Hard To Find
10. You Just Take Her
11. Barnard Blues
12. I Never Knew
13. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
14. Take The 'A' Train

Product Details

• Released on: 1993-09-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Import, Best of

From Amazon.com
If you asked Bob Wills what kind of music he and his Texas Playboys played, he sure as hell wouldn't have said "country." He resented any association with "rural music," and once the western part of the term country & western somehow vanished, he felt even less (if possible) kinship with that genre. This Tiffany volume focuses exclusively on the jazz and blues staples that Wills adored, and it brilliantly highlights the band's improvisational sophistication. Most of the material here was popularized by jazz and blues legends of the 1920s and 1930s including Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Bessie Smith, and Memphis Minnie. As with all of the Tiffany radio transcriptions, recorded at the Playboys' late-1940s peak, Wills's crew would have at these tunes without a shred of rehearsal, giving them each that spark of spontaneity. --Marc Greilsamer