Anthology 1935-1973
by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
- Type: Compilation
- Released: 1 January 1991
- Label: Rhino
- Country: United States
- Community rating: 4.25/5 from 1 rating
Artists on this release: Bob Fitzgerald, Jack Loyd, Luke Wills, Herb Remington, Alex Brashear, Mitchell Parish, Fred Rose, Abner Silver, Haven Gillespie, Eldon Shamblin, Doc Lewis, Don Harlan, Louis Tierney, Al Stricklin, Spencer Williams, George Clayburn, Gene Crownover, Cameron Hill, Jimmy Wyble, Joe Ferguson, J. Mayo Williams, Jerry Livingston, Everett Stover, Bennie Moten, Billy Bowman, Millard Kelso, Thamon Hayes, Junior Barnard, Paul Biese, Johnny Gimble, Johnny Megetto, Robert "Zeb" McNally, Mancel Tierney, Herman Arnspiger, W. C. Handy, Ray DeGeer, Tommy Duncan, O.W. Mayo, Tiny Mott, Leon McAuliffe, Neil Duer, Bo Chatman, Son Lansford, Noel Boggs, Morris Billington, Tag Lambert, Johnnie Lee Wills, Arthur L. Sizemore, Benny Strickler, Bob Wills, Keith Coleman, Tommy Perkins, Billy Jack Wills, Danny Alguire, Claude Fewell, Ocie Stockard, Sleepy Johnson, Lee Ross, Frank McWhorter, Smokey Dacus, Darrell Jones, Joe Holley, John Wills, Cindy Walker, Floyd Jenkins
Album Notes & Community Reviews
This two-disc, 32-track collection was the first attempt to survey the band's entire recording career, drawing material from every label the Playboys recorded for and using the hit version of each signature song. Its programme runs from early studio sides through radio transcriptions to the reunion session recorded the afternoon before a stroke ended Wills's career, taking in 'New San Antonio Rose', 'Take Me Back to Tulsa' and 'Faded Love'.
Genres
Descriptors: dance, guitars, traditional, compilation, male-vocals
Tracklist
- Maiden's Prayer
- Steel Guitar Rag
- Right Or Wrong
- Time Changes Everything
- Corrine Corrina
- Big Beaver
- New San Antonio Rose
- Take Me Back To Tulsa
- Cherokee Maiden
- Home In San Antone
- Miss Molly
- My Confession
- Texas Playboy Rag
- Roly-Poly
- Stay A Little Longer
- Basin Street Blues
- My Window Faces The South
- Fat Boy Rag
- Three Guitar Special
- Deep Water
- Bubbles In My Beer
- Blues For Dixie
- South
- Cotton Patch Blues
- Boot Heel Drag
- Faded Love
- St. Louis Blues
- Cadillac In Model "A"
- Heart To Heart Talk
- The Jobob Rag
- Blue Bonnet Lane
- What Makes Bob Holler
Credits
- Billy Jack Wills - bass, drums, written-by
- Don Harlan - clarinet, saxophone
- Johnny Gimble - fiddle, mandolin [electric]
- Louis Tierney - fiddle, saxophone
- Eldon Shamblin - guitar, written-by
- Junior Barnard - guitar, written-by
- Tiny Moore - mandolin [electric], written-by
- Billy Bowman - steel guitar
- Leon McAuliffe - written-by
- Arthur L. Sizemore - written-by
- Haven Gillespie - written-by
- Paul Biese - written-by
- Bo Chatman - written-by
- J. Mayo Williams - written-by
- Cindy Walker - written-by
- Floyd Jenkins - written-by
- Fred Rose - written-by
- Spencer Williams - written-by
- Abner Silver - written-by
- Jerry Livingston - written-by
- Mitchell Parish - written-by
- O.W. Mayo - written-by
- Bennie Moten - written-by
- Thamon Hayes - written-by
- John Wills - written-by
- W. C. Handy - written-by
- Lee Ross - written-by
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