The King of Western Swing

Compilation by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

Released 2007

Tracklist

  • CD 1: Dallas, Chicago: 1935, 1936
  • 1
    Sunbonnet Sue
    Fort Worth Doughboys
    3:04
  • 2
    Nancy Jane
    Fort Worth Doughboys
    3:12
  • 3
    Osage Stomp
    3:02
  • 4
    Get With It
    3:04
  • 5
    I Can't Give You Anything but Love
    2:40
  • 6
    Spanish Two Step
    2:56
  • 7
    Maiden's Prayer
    3:05
    4.0 ★
  • 8
    Wang Wang Blues
    3:01
  • 9
    St. Louis Blues
    3:14
  • 10
    Good Old Oklahoma
    3:06
  • 11
    Blue River
    2:36
  • 12
    Mexicali Rose
    3:16
  • 13
    I Ain't Got Nobody
    2:45
  • 14
    Never No More Blues
    2:57
  • 15
    Who Walks in When I Walk Out
    2:53
  • 16
    Old Fashioned Love
    3:20
  • 17
    Oklahoma Rag
    2:50
  • 18
    Black and Blue Rag
    2:43
  • 19
    Sittin' On Top of the World
    3:20
  • 20
    Four or Five Times
    2:48
  • 21
    I Can't Be Satisfied
    3:01
  • 22
    Smith's Reel
    Bob Wills and Sleepy Johnson
    2:51
  • 23
    Harmony
    Bob Wills and Sleepy Johnson
    2:49
  • 24
    She's Killing Me
    2:47
  • 25
    Weary of the Same Old Stuff
    2:43
  • CD 2: Chicago, Dallas: 1936,1937
  • 1
    No Matter How She Does It
    2:55
  • 2
    Bluin' the Blues
    3:11
  • 3
    Steel Guitar Song
    2:49
  • 4
    Get Along Home Cindy
    2:49
  • 5
    Trouble in Mind
    2:59
  • 6
    What's the Matter With the Mill
    2:55
  • 7
    Sugar Blues
    2:54
  • 8
    Basin Street Blues
    3:03
  • 9
    Red Hot Gal of Mine
    3:07
  • 10
    Too Busy
    2:34
  • 11
    Back Home Again in Indiana
    2:53
  • 12
    Fan It
    2:44
  • 13
    Mean Mama Blues
    2:53
  • 14
    Bring It on Down to My Heart
    2:44
  • 15
    Right or Wrong
    2:56
  • 16
    Swing Blues #1
    2:41
  • 17
    Swing Blues #2
    2:47
  • 18
    White Heat
    2:45
  • 19
    Dedicated to You
    2:33
  • 20
    Playboy Stomp
    2:47
  • 21
    Steel Guitar Stomp
    2:40
  • 22
    Rosetta
    2:54
  • 23
    Bleeding Hearted Blues
    2:35
  • 24
    Tie Me to Your Apron Strings Again
    2:32
  • 25
    Never No More Hard Times Blues
    2:56
  • CD 3: Dallas: 1937, 1938
  • 1
    Sunbonnet Sue
    2:31
  • 2
    The New St. Louis Blues
    2:47
  • 3
    I'm a Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas
    2:25
  • 4
    Oozlin' Daddy Blues
    2:29
  • 5
    Black Rider
    2:44
  • 6
    Everybody Does It in Hawaii
    2:34
  • 7
    Alexander's Ragtime Band
    2:46
  • 8
    Blue Prelude
    2:28
  • 9
    Sophisticated Hula
    2:07
  • 10
    Pray for the Lights to Go Out
    2:53
  • 11
    Gambling Polka Dot Blues
    2:26
  • 12
    Keep Knocking (But You Can't Come in)
    2:48
  • 13
    Loveless Love
    2:43
  • 14
    Oh, Lady Be Good
    2:36
  • 15
    Way Down Upon the Swanee River
    2:38
  • 16
    Oh You Beautiful Doll
    2:32
  • 17
    Moonlight and Roses (Bring Mem'Ries of You)
    2:35
  • 18
    I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
    2:37
  • 19
    Tulsa Stomp
    2:34
  • 20
    Empty Bed Blues
    2:44
  • 21
    Little Red Head
    2:43
  • 22
    San Antonio Rose
    2:35
    4.0 ★
  • 23
    Little Girl, Go Ask Your Mama
    2:35
  • 24
    Carolina in the Morning
    2:46
    4.0 ★
  • 25
    The Convict and the Rose
    2:45
    4.0 ★
  • CD 4: Dalas Saginaw: 1938, 1940
  • 1
    Silver Bells
    2:43
  • 2
    Dreamy Eyes Waltz
    2:38
  • 3
    Beaumont Rag
    2:41
  • 4
    Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
    2:32
  • 5
    If I Could Bring Back My Buddy
    2:28
  • 6
    Whoa Babe
    2:37
  • 7
    Ida Red
    2:24
  • 8
    Yearning (Just for You)
    2:24
  • 9
    I Wonder If You Feel the Way I Do
    2:38
  • 10
    Prosperity Special
    2:40
  • 11
    Drunkard's Blues
    2:23
  • 12
    You're Okay
    2:29
    4.0 ★
  • 13
    Liza Pull Down the Shades
    2:21
    4.0 ★
  • 14
    That's What I Like 'Bout the South
    2:35
  • 15
    My Window Faces the South
    2:16
  • 16
    The Waltz You Saved for Me
    2:28
  • 17
    Don't Let the Deal Go Down
    2:44
  • 18
    You Don't Love Me (But I'll Always Care)
    2:54
  • 19
    No Wonder
    2:37
  • 20
    Lone Star Rag
    2:44
  • 21
    There's Going to Be a Party (For the Old Folks)
    2:44
  • 22
    I Don't Lov'a Nobody
    2:30
  • 23
    That Brownskin Gal
    2:31
  • 24
    Corrine Corrina
    2:53
    5.0 ★
  • 25
    Let Me Call You Sweetheart (I'm in Love with You)
    2:44

More by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

Release credits

  • piano [2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-10, 2.15-16, 2.20, 1.3-4, 1.6-7, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17, 1.25, 3.5, 3.10, 3.22, 3.24, 4.1, 4.3-4, 4.6, 4.12, 4.14, 4.16, 4.20, 4.24]
  • fiddle [6-7], trombone [3-4, 13, 15, 17]
  • fiddle [4.1, 4.3-4, 4.6, 4.12, 4.14, 4.16, 4.20, 4.24, 1.1-4, 1.6-7, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17, 1.25, 3.5, 3.10, 3.22, 3.24, 2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-10, 2.15-16, 2.20], vocal [2.6-7, 3.10, 4.24]
  • fiddle [20]
  • clarinet [5], saxophone [10]
  • guitar [1-2]
  • saxophone [3.22, 4.20, 4.24]
  • guitar [4.1, 4.3-4, 4.6, 4.12, 4.14, 4.16, 4.20, 4.24, 3.5, 3.10, 3.22, 3.24]
  • trumpet [4.1, 4.3-4, 4.6, 4.12, 4.14, 4.16, 2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-10, 2.15-16, 2.20, 3.5, 3.10, 3.22, 3.24, 1.25]
  • guitar [2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-10, 2.15-16, 2.20, 4.1, 4.3-4, 4.6, 4.12, 4.14, 4.16, 4.20, 4.24, 3.22, 3.24, 1.3-4, 1.6-7, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17, 1.25]
  • fiddle [4.1, 4.3-4, 4.6, 4.12, 4.14, 4.16, 4.20, 4.24, 1.3-4, 1.6-7, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17, 1.25, 2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-10, 2.15-16, 2.20, 3.5, 3.10, 3.22, 3.24], vocal [25]
  • bass [15], double bass [3.5, 3.10, 1.25, 2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-10, 2.16, 2.20], saxophone [22], vocal [4.12, 2.1]
  • banjo [4.1, 4.3-4, 4.6, 4.12, 4.14, 4.16, 4.20, 4.24, 2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-10, 2.15-16, 2.20, 3.5, 3.10, 3.22, 3.24, 1.3-4, 1.6-7, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17, 1.25]
  • steel guitar [3.22, 1.3-4, 1.6-7, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17, 1.25, 4.20, 4.24, 2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-10, 2.15-16, 2.20], vocal [1.15, 4.6, 4.14]
  • fiddle [4.20, 4.24, 3.22]
  • vocal [1-2]
  • reeds [1.25, 2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-10, 2.16, 2.20]
  • tenor saxophone [15]
  • guitar [3.5, 3.10, 3.24, 2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-10, 2.15-16, 2.20, 1.3-4, 1.6-7, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17, 1.25, 4.1, 4.3-4, 4.6, 4.12, 4.14, 4.16], tenor guitar [1-2]
  • drums (drum set) [1.3-4, 1.6-7, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17, 1.25, 2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-10, 2.16, 2.20, 4.1, 4.3-4, 4.6, 4.12, 4.14, 4.16, 4.20, 4.24, 3.5, 3.10, 3.22, 3.24], membranophone [15]
  • double bass [3.22, 3.24, 4.1, 4.3-4, 4.6, 4.12, 4.14, 4.16, 4.20, 4.24, 1.3-4, 1.6-7, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17]
  • saxophone [4.1, 4.3-4, 4.6, 4.12, 4.14, 4.16, 4.20, 4.24, 2.20, 3.22, 3.24]
  • vocal [1.4, 1.13, 4.16, 2.6, 2.9, 2.15-16, 3.5, 3.22]
  • trumpet [22]
  • saxophone [22]
  • saxophone [3.5, 3.10, 3.22, 3.24, 4.1, 4.3-4, 4.6, 4.12, 4.14, 4.16, 4.20, 4.24, 1.3-4, 1.6-7, 1.13, 1.15, 1.17, 1.25, 2.1-2, 2.6-7, 2.9-10, 2.15-16, 2.20]

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