"BOPPIN’ HILLBILLY" - Vol. 1traxfromwax:
1. flyin' saucer boogie - Eddie Cletro & His Round Up Boys 2. hang in there like a rusty fish hook - Country Boy Eddie & His Show Band 3. fodder fossil's blues - Country Boy Eddie & His Show Band 4. square dance boogie - Cousin Joe Maphis & The Top Hands 5. lonesome train boogie - Cousin Joe Maphis & The Top Hands 6. i'm building a ??? (on the moon) - Weldon Rogers 7. real rockin' daddy - Hoyle Nix & His West Texas Cowboys 8. juke box boogie - Casey Simmons & His Night Riders 9. hot woodpecker rag - Arkie Shibley & His Mountain Dew Boys 10. st. joe boogie - Leon Benson & His Rhythm Ramblers 11. hardin's bread boogie - Dreamy Joe 12. i'm back in the army - Tani Allen & His Tennessee Pals 13. sugar street boogie - Preston Miller & The Drifters 14. hart's bread boogie - Curley Hickson 15. bingo boogie - Tommy Mooney w/Bobby Mooney & His Automobile Babies 16. that's my baby - Tommy Mooney w/Bobby Mooney & His Automobile Babies 17. catfish boogie - Reese Shipley 18. dusty blossom boogie - Arkie Shibley & His Mountain Dew Boys

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If you are looking for some amazing vinyl albums containing rockabilly, honkytonk, c&w, western swing - then you shall look for this BOPPIN´ HILLBILLY serie - 30 volumes. The title is somewhat misleading - it is swingin´, rockin´, Country Music from a time when Country Music was Country Music...with a ton of steel and fiddle. This is music that will knock your socks off!!!

I will give you an idea of what you can expect on these volumes, guess you´ll be surprised.

# 01. Hoyle Nix & His West Texas Cowboys - Real Rockin´ Daddy
#02. Miller Brothers Band - Hey Pretty Baby
#03. Buster Doss & His Arkansas Playboys - Playboy Boogie
#04. Ole Rassmussin Corn Huskers (sic) -Ain´t Got A Nickel
-----Tommy Duncan - Nancy Jane
-----Sonny Hall & His Ozark Boys - Better Make Up Your Mind (w./Bobby Koefer)
#06. Jesse James & Band - Piano Pete´s Boogie
----- Miller Brothers Band - Woodchuck Boogie
#07. Cotton Thompson w/Deacon "Rag Mop" Anderson - How Long
----- Merl Lindsay & His Oklahoma Night Riders - Slidin´ Steel
----- Deuce Spriggens & His Western Stringband -Who Broke The Look On The Henhouse Door
#08. Miller Brothers Band - Fiddlin´ Stomp
#09. Leodie Jackson & His Western Swingsters - Steeling The Blues
#11. Miller Brothers Band - Nursey Rhyme Blues
----- Richard Prine & His Allstars - Boppin´ The Mop / Highball Boogie
----- Jimmie Short & The Silver Saddle Ranch Boys - Your Big Beaver
#12. Cliff Bruner & His Texas Wanderers - You Got To Give Me What´s Mine / Out Of Business
----- Bob Manning & The Riders Of The Silvery Sage - Silver Sage Stomp /w.Bobby Koefer ?
----- Cotton Thompson & The Village Boys - Jelly Roll Blues
#13. Miller Brothers Band - entire album
#14. Buster Doss & His Arkansas Playboys - Let´s Go Fishin´/ Graveyard Boogie / She´s My Arkie
----- Hoyle Nix & His West Texas Cowboys - Blue Flame
#16. Glynn Duncan & His Bar B Boys - We Got Good Business
----- Rip Ramsey & His Texas Wanderers - Rip Ramsey´s Boogie
----- Dave Stogner & His Band - Yes Sir
#21. Johnnie Lee Wills - The Band´s `a Rockin´
#22. Cliff Bruner & His Texas Wanderers - Ouch
----- Dickie McBride & The Ranch Hands - I Don´t Get No Lovin
----- Jesse James & All The Boys - Joaquin Special (aka Swingin´ On The Steel)
----- Jerry Irby & His Texas Ranchers - Buy Me A Bottle Of Beer
----- Rip Ramsey & His Texas Wanderers - Wanderers Swing
#25. Bill Nettles & The Dixie Blue Boys - Ain´t No Tellin´ What A Woman Will Do
#26. Bill Nettles - High Falutin´ Mama
#30. Merl Lindsay &The Oklahoma Night Riders - Shimmy Shakin´ Daddy
----- Rusty Locke & The Texas Top Hands - Milk Cow Blues
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BOB WILLS  fantastiska Bear Family box ”PAPA`S JUMPIN`” visar upp en rad av de steelgitarrister som användes under åren 1947-1952:

Herb Remington 1947-1949;
Hal Clampitt 1950;
Billy Bowman 1953-1954;
Bobby Koefer 1951;
V.O. ”Shorty” Messer &
Bob White 1952.

¤ Rock´n´roll röjde om i musikkretsarna.  På baksidestexten på Bear Family albumet HANK PENNY ”Rompin´Stompin´Singin´Swingin´” kan man läsa följande: The seeds of Rock´n Roll were developing and thriving long before Elvis Presley stumbled upon them in Memphis on June 6, 1954. The Music he discovered, which some call Rockabilly, had been around since the 1940s under the name ”Country Boogie”. The music that spawned ”Country Boogie”was ”Western Swing”, a musical form that fused country, jazz, blues and pop styles, and pioneered the use of amplified instruments. Without the pioneers of Western Swing, there may not have been an Elvis Presley.:
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   The bold heritage of the mighty buffalo and the individuality and pioneering spirit of those early Americans are again found in Buffalo Trace Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey – the very finest bourbon created at the Buffalo Trace Destillery. Traditionally handcrafted , Buffalo Trace has a smooth, confident taste that invites discovery  with  each sip. Explore Buffalo Trace and taste the spirit of legends.

  KEEP  SWINGIN´!!!

 

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RIVERS, JIMMY (1926-2003)

Despite his relative obscurity, Jimmie Rivers was one of the great western swing guitarists, with a near-unparalleled ability to construct exciting, melodic solos in the vein of Charlie Christian.  Born Walter James Fewell on Feb. 12, 1926 in Hockerville, Oklahoma, and later changing his name to Jimmy Rivers, he passed away peacefully in his home in Placerville, California on August 29, 2003. Jimmy Rivers was an extraordinary man; a gifted musician who picked up his first instrument, a fiddle, at age four. His father, a coal miner and hoedown fiddler, bought him his first guitar at age six. Jimmy served in the Navy where he became an accomplished pilot and paratrooper.  The music of Bob Wills gave the youth his first influence, in particular the twin electric

guitar arrangements of Leon McAuliffe and Eldon Shamblin. In high school, he also played trumpet before his family moved west to Oakland in the early ‘40s. Although Rivers' style had largely matured by the time he was a late teenager, it was in Oakland that he received his greatest musical instruction. Sitting in with a jazz combo one evening, he met a pianist named Don Burke, who introduced him to the music of the great electric guitar pioneer Charlie Christian. (Amazingly, although Rivers' guitar playing was already saturated with be-bop stylings, the youth had never heard of Christian; rather, he had absorbed the technique of Barney Kessel, another Christian fan.) After two years in the Navy, in 1946 Rivers moved to Corpus Christi, TX and formed a trio called the Gadabouts. His reputation as a guitarist was growing, bringing job offers from both Spade Cooley and Bob Wills. Rivers, however, declined, as by this time he was making more money on his own than either bandleader could promise. In 1954, he moved back to Oakland and took work as a DJ at KVSM. Before his first broadcast, he was re-christened “Jimmie Rivers" by a local man who expressed distaste for the name Fewell. (Rivers, who was half-Indian, had explained that his original family name was “Two Rivers.") Soon after, he formed a western swing group called the Cherokees, who began appearing on the California Hayride television show dressed in Indian headdresses. The Cherokees also cut some records for the Cavalier label and frequently backed Tommy Duncan on his solo recordings. In 1958, the group took up residence at the 23 Club in Brisbane, CA. That same year, Rivers hooked up with ex-Billy Jack Wills steel guitarist Vance Terry, and in 1959 Terry joined what would become the definitive Cherokees lineup. They played the 23 Club for six years, before Rivers disbanded the group in 1964. He came to the Sacramento area in 1961 and became involved in western swing music and jazz.  He was a Gold Card Member of the Sacramento Jazz Society and was inducted into the Western Swing Hall of Fame. He performed at the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee for many years, first with Bob Ringwald and the Fulton Street Jazz Band, later with his own Jimmy Rivers Jazz Band.

 

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*** The Light Crust Doughboys were named The State of Texas´ Official Music Ambassadors by the 74th Texas Legislature, are Texas Commission on the Arts´official touring artists, and are inductees in the Texas Cowboy, Texas Western Swing, Rockabilly, Texas Music, and Cowtown Society of Western Music Hall Of Fame. In every personal appearance by The Light Crust Doughboys, the band pays tribute to its legacy by honoring the musical contributions of Bob Wills, Milton Brown, Marvin ”Smokey” Mongomery and all the former members who have created that unmistakable Light Crust Doughboy sound.

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The current members include Art Greenhaw, bass, guitar & vocals; Maurice Anderson, steel guitar; Dale Cook, drums & vocals; Jim Baker, fiddle & vocals; Kevin Bailey, guitar & vocals; Teresa Anderson, vocals; with guest appearances by Doughboy legends Jerry Elliott & John Walden.

The Light Crust Doughboys are considered the longest running Country & Western band in the world and one of the top historical bands of all time.

www.The LightCrustDoughboys.com

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LOOK * LOOK * LOOK - you WESTERN SWING MUSIC Collectors:

Looking for good ole Western Swing & Honky Tonk Music - in Europe there are several record companies dealing with these types of music. Here are some I have been in touch with and can recommend to you all.

PRESIDENT RECORD ***

One CD with BOB WILLS & His Texas Playboys - King of Lone Star Swing and one CD with various artists "Roots of Rock ´Roll Vol.2 - Stompin´ Western Swing".

www.president-records.co.uk

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BUFFALO BOP RECORDS - a Hamburg based label that among a ton of releases have the after sought BOBBY KOEFER song "Gotta Rock A Little More".

www.dee-jay-records.de

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FREMEAUX RECORDS - here we´ll find a 2CD box "Western Swing Texas 1924 -1944" including a booklet on 32 pages

www.Fremeaux Records.com

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BRITISH ARCHIVE OF COUNTRY MUSIC - loads of good old stuff.

www.bacm.users.btopenworld.com

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INTERSTATE MUSIC LIMITED * labels Country Routes and Krazy Kat - `nuff said!

www.interstate-music.co.uk.

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COLLECTOR RECORDS - a Holland based label with lots of old Honky Tonk, R&R, and some Western Swing as The MILLER BROTHERS BAND.

www.collectorrecords.n>

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BEAR FAMILY RECORDS - celebrating 33 years in business - the GIANT in rerealeses of all types of music - tons of GREAT WESTERN SWING ...

www.bear-family.de

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JASMINE RECORDS - there are interesting CDs as TOMMY DUNCAN "Dog House Blues" with Coral stuff plus some tracks by Bob and Billy Jack Wills. Also PEE WEE KING "Western Swing Get Together" plus some more .

Here are the Coral session dates & personnel. All 3 sessions were cut at Studio A, Universal City in California. February 26, 1954, 2-5pm:

Track 18 on CD: The Parting of the Ways -Track 23 - Wasting Your Life Away -Track 5 - I Just Can´t Take It Anymore - Track 14 Walkin´ in the Shadow of the Blues

November 2, 1954 2 - 5.30; Track 20: Leavin´ Today -Track 16: My Son My Son - Track 1: San Antonio Rose -- Track 24: Time Changes Everything.

May 10, 1955 2-5pm Track: 3: I´ll Never Worry You - Track 7: Mirror on the Wall - Track 9: Sending Your Picture Back - Track 11: Somebody´s Pushin´

Known personnel for all sessions: Tommy Duncan, vocal; Muddy Berry - drums; Noel Boggs-steel guitar; Bobby Bruce - fiddle; Jack Kelleher- bass; Caddy Lewis-trumpet; Jack Rivers-electric guitar. Piano unknown and A&R on all sessions was Jimmy Wakely.

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There is also the "Griddle Greasin´ Daddies & Dirty Cowboys" JASMCD-3576 - banned from the radio! Risqué Country Music from the 1940s and early 50´s. Rowdy and lewd Hillbilly at its best. Kicking off this set is the Hillbilly classic "Birthday Cake Song" sung, with subdues rasping by its composer BillyHughes. Featuring the original recording of "The Tattoeed Lady" with Skeets McDonald. From a Western Swing point of view are HANK PENNY´S "Let Me Play With Your Poodle" and "The Freckle Song". ROY LEE BROWN offers "Ice Man Song" (I do believe Dick Curless also recorded this one) and HOMER ZEKE CLEMONS has "Sell The Coldest Stuff In Town" // HOMER CLEMONS & His Texas Swingbillies "Operation Blues" (perhaps with BOBBY KOEFER?)

www.jasmine-records.co.uk

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CHARLY RECORDS - distr. by Snapper Music

www.charleyrecords.com

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JSP RECORDS - 4CD- boxes with all types of Bluegrass, Country, Western Swing, Blues & Jazz

wwwjsprecords.com also www.smokestackblues.com

 

 

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Boogie Barn Dance

                             

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SWING THINGS *** SWING THINGS *** SWING THINGS *** SWING THINGS *** SWING THINGS ***

THE STRAWBERRY ROAN "

 

 

Rock City Boogie

 

Skiddle Dee Boo

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