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Hillbilly Jazz & Western Swing |
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Compilation of handouts from last Western Swing Instrumentals Session (It's a big file so give time to download - 1.48 MB) |
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| Howdy Hoss! | |
| All righty then. This here is your portal to a bunch of pages dealing with various aspects of playing and enjoying Western Swing music. | |
| Important Western Swing Artists and Bands | |
| You might want to become familiar with the following
artists and Western Swing bands.
Bands/Bandleaders: Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys; Spade Cooley Orchestra, Tex Williams and his Western Caravan, Milt Brown and His Musical Brownies, Asleep at the Wheel, Cliff Bruner & His Texas Wanderers, Leon McAuliffe & His Cimarron Boys, Billy Jack Wills and his Western Swing Band, Jimmy Revard. Fiddle: Bob Wills, Keith Coleman, Johnny Gimble, Keith Coleman, Joe Holley, Wade Ray, Tommy Jackson, Cliff Bruner, Cecil Brower, Dale Potter. Mandolin: Tiny Moore, Johnny Gimble, Jethro Burns. Guitar: Eldon Shamblin, Junior Barnard, Ray Benson, Jimmy Bryant. |
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| Recommended Recordings | |
| When you're working to get your arms around a new style of music and a new way of playing there's no substitute for time spent just listening to the music. Fortunately, there's is a ton of good Western Swing available on CD. Also, there's a lot to be gained from studying with the right videos and instruction books. Click here to link to recommended recordings, videos and books. | |
| Night in a Roadhouse | |
| So you're driving along Interstate 44 (old route 66) in Oklahoma on your way down to Tulsa. You pull off onto a two-lane road. A tumbleweed rolls across the highway in front of you and as you follow it you see just off the road a classic roadhouse offering cold beer, good steaks and live Western Swing music. Take your axe out of the back seat and head on in. Whoa! You better study this Western Swing Tune List before you head in. Who knows, they might ask you to sit in. | |
| Great Links | |
| Welcome to Johnny Gimble's world of Texas Swing! | |
| Western Swing | |
| Western Swing Dot Com | |
| Western Swing Monthly | |
| Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys | |