While some artists feel the need to reinvent themselves on a regular basis or to throw together records chockfull of guest stars in order to revive flagging careers, J.J. Cale remains content to continue his reign as king of the laid-back guitar groove. Anyone who thinks it is easy to continually wring new permutations out of the back-porch choogle--Cale's calling card for near three decades--should try it some time. A little violin ("My Gal"), a stab of horns ("Chains of Love"), or some vibraphone tones ("New Lover") is all he needs to freshen the mix. While artists like Eric Clapton and Lynyrd Skynyrd have scored by adding testosterone to Cale's tunes, they would be the first to admit that his music is no less potent for being more relaxed. In fact, it's the off-hand manner in which he presents his political tunes--"Stone River" (ecology), "The Problem" (the President), and "Homeless"--that gives them their poetry and power. --Michael Ross
San Jose Mercury News
"a wealth of solid songs and a rocking delivery."
To Tulsa and Back
To Tulsa and Back,J.J. Cale,Sanctuary Records,Blues-Rock,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop,Roots Rock,Singer/Songwriter,Southern Rock
To Tulsa and Back
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Back to Tulsa: Live and Loud at Cain's Ballroom
Cross Canadian Ragweed Manufacturer: Universal South ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000J2344S Release Date: 2006-10-31 |
Tracks:
- Dimebag
- Number
- Lonely Girl
- Late Last Night
- Final Curtain
- Sister
- Constantly
- Don't Need You
- Fightin' For
- When It All Goes Down
- Anywhere But Here
- Daddy's At Home
- The Needle And The Damage Done
- When Will It End
- Back Around
- Brooklyn Kid
Tracks:
- Cold Hearted Woman
- Jimmy And Annie
- Wanna Rock & Roll
- 17
- Hammer Down
- Alabama
- Blues For You
- Lonely Feeling
Customer Reviews:
Jesse.......2007-05-13
Great Collection of My Favorites.......2007-02-15
Cross Canadian Ragweed.......2007-01-10
Simply the Best.......2006-12-10
Rock and Roll is alive and well.......2006-12-06
If I have one complaint about this CD, it might be that the CD is a true live CD (no remixing), and sometimes it's hard to hear the awesome musicianship or Canada's vocals over the noise of the crowd. A lot of people will probably love it for the same reason though. All in all, anyone who loves good old fashioned rock and roll will love this CD.
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Take Me Back to Tulsa
Bob Wills Manufacturer: Proper UK Boxed Sets ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005TO15 Release Date: 2001-12-03 |
Tracks:
- Nancy Jane - Fort Worth Doughboys
- Sunbonnet Sue - Fort Worth Doughboys
- Osage Stomp
- Get With It
- Spanish Two Step
- Maiden's Prayer
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- Who Walks in When I Walk Out
- Oklahoma Rag
- Smith's Reel
- Weary of the Same Ol' Stuff
- No Matter How She Done It
- Bluin' the Blues
- Red Hot Gal of Mine
- Steel Guitar Rag
- What's the Matter With the Mill?
- Sugar Blues
- Basin Street Blues
- Too Busy
- Fan It
- There's No Disappointment in Heaven
- Swing Blues No. 1
- Playboy Stomp
- T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)
- Never No More Hard Times Blues
- Oozlin' Daddy Blues
Tracks:
- Black Rider
- Pray for the Lights to Go Out
- San Antonio Rose
- Carolina in the Morning
- Silver Bells (That Ring in the Night)
- Beaumont Rag
- Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
- Whoa Baby
- I Wonder If You Feel the Way I Do
- My Window Faces the South
- That's What I Like About the South
- Waltz You Saved for Me
- Prosperity Special
- Don't Let the Deal Go Down
- You're Okay
- Lone Star Rag
- Corrine, Corrina
- Bob Wills Special
- Time Changes Everything
- Big Beaver
- New San Antonio Rose
- I Knew the Moment I Lost You
- Twin Guitar Special
- Take Me Back to Tulsa
- Takin' It Home
- Please Don't Leave Me
- Cherokee Maiden
- Dusty Skies
- My Life's Been a Pleasure
Tracks:
- We Might as Well Forget It
- Home in San Antone
- Liberty
- Miss Molly
- You're from Texas
- Goodbye Liza Jane
- My Confession
- Texas Playboy Rag
- Roly Poly
- Stay a Little Longer
- Just a Plain Old Country Boy
- New Spanish Two-Step
- I'm Feelin' Bad
- Cotton Eyed Joe
- Brain Cloudy Blues
- Bob Wills Boogie
- Fat Boy Rag
- Good Man Is Hard to Find
- Little Bit of Boogie
- Along the Navajo Trail
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home
- Betcha My Heart
- Chinatown
- Dinah
- Frankie Jean
- Hawaiian War Chant
Tracks:
- I'm a Ding Dong Daddy
- Milk Cow Blues
- My Gal Sal
- Red River Valley
- Sugar Moon
- Sweet Jennie Lee
- Girl I Left Behind Me
- At the Woodchopper's Ball
- Blues for Dixie
- Bubbles in My Beer
- Can't Get Enough of Texas
- Cotton Patch Blues
- Cowboy Stomp
- Crazy Rhythm
- Deep Water
- Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age
- Keeper of My Heart
- Little Cowboy Lament
- Thorn in My Heart
- Ida Red Likes to Boogie
- Boot Heel Drag
- Faded Love
- I Laugh When I Think How I Cried Over You
- I'll Be Lucky Someday
- I Didn't Realise
- Rock-A-Bye Baby Blues
- Jolie Blon Likes the Boogie
- End of the Line
Album Description
UK budget-price box-set featuring the pioneer of western swing, he played blues, rags, stomps, ballads and jazz in a style that became much imitated. 119 tracks and including a 52 page illustrated booklet. Four standard jewel cases housed in a slipcase. 2001.Album Details
Compilation featuring 109 Tracks from the King of Western Swing. Includes Every Important Track Recordedbetween the Years 1932 and 1950 as Well as a 52 Page Booklet with a Biography, Session Details and Rarephotos.Customer Reviews:
amazing collection.......2007-06-01
"What A Great Deal !.......2006-06-29
"Come in, Tommy...".......2006-01-06
Tommy Duncan, Wills' favorite featured vocalist, appears here on many sides, including Time Changes Everything (my personal Bob Wills favorite) and many others. Besides the early Columbia sides, there are examples of his Decca years and other smaller labels. A few of my own favorites include My Little Cherokee Maiden (close runner-up to Time Changes Everything as my favorite Bob Wills record) Sunbonnet Sue (recorded with Milton Brown and His Brownies before Bob formed the Playboys) Maiden's Prayer, Steel Guitar Rag, Basin Street Blues, San Antonio Rose, Silver Bells, Lone Star Rag (an overlooked masterpiece, and one of the catchiest instrumental tunes you've ever heard), Take Me Back To Tulsa, Miss Molly, My Confession, Roly Poly, Hawaiian War Chant, Sugar Moon, Bubbles In My Beer, Deep Water, Faded Love (which Bob wrote and Patsy Cline had a monster hit with) and I Laugh When I Think How I Cried Over You (what a great title!).
For anyone who doesn't know, Bob Wills was a fiddle player who played his first professional gig as a young boy, substituting for his father at a barn dance. Although he grew up around Western music, the Wills family lived in a poor area where there were many black families, and very early he was exposed to and grew to love the Blues and other forms of traditional African-American music. Legend has it that he once rode fifty miles on horseback to attend a Bessie Smith recital, and was the only white person in the audience. He was one of the founding members of Milton Brown and His Brownies, the band credited with creating the style of music now known as Western Swing. When he started his own band, the Texas Playboys, he took a cue from Count Basie and included Brass, Horns and rhythm instruments, and if he couldn't claim to actually invent Western Swing, he certainly perfected it. In the 1940's he was one of the highest paid bandleaders in the US.
Bob was most famous for his "calls" or "hollers". When the band got hot, he would frequently holler "Ahhhhh-hahhhh" or prod them along with such exclamations as "Take it away, Leon" or "Here's that old piano pounder". Or, if the band was playing below his expectations, he would shout, "Johnny in key, please" or virtually anything else that came into his mind.
For many years during the height of his popularity, Bob and his music were rejected by the orthodox country music establishment for being too "jazzy" and ignored by the jazz world for being too "hillbilly". Western Swing is a blend of jazz and western music - it is primarily dance music, with a strong emphasis on vocals (like country), but it also includes jazz instruments like saxophone and trumpets. What makes it most unique are instruments that are traditionally associated with country music (like fiddles and steel guitars), being employed in a "swing" or jazz fashion. Any performance by Bob Wills Texas Playboys incorporates spotlight solos, improvisation and other musical trademarks generally associated with jazz. In other words, his band and his music are totally unique.
Fortunately, there was a revival of interest in Bob Wills and his music which started in the 1960's and continues to this day. After his death in 1974, there was an explosion of new Western Swing bands, with young admirers anxious to copy the Bob Wills sound and keep Western Swing alive. Even country music has finally paid him his due, for today Bob Wills is proudly embraced and revered in country circles as a pioneer and a true original. He is now acknowledged as one of the first to incorporate African American rhythm and Jazz into country music, and his influence has been acknowledged by such diverse artists as Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and even Elvis Costello.
If you are not familiar with Bob Wills, you can't go wrong with this set as an introduction, especially at this price.
HERE THEY ALL COME!.......2005-09-13
Red Hot Jazz Cowboy blues band!.......2005-01-13
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To Tulsa and Back
J.J. Cale Manufacturer: Sanctuary Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00024I31C Release Date: 2004-06-08 |
Tracks:
- My Gal
- Chains Of Love
- New Lover
- One Step
- Stone River
- The Problem
- Homeless
- Fancy Dancer
- Rio
- These Blues
- Motormouth
- Blues For Mama
Amazon.com
While some artists feel the need to reinvent themselves on a regular basis or to throw together records chockfull of guest stars in order to revive flagging careers, J.J. Cale remains content to continue his reign as king of the laid-back guitar groove. Anyone who thinks it is easy to continually wring new permutations out of the back-porch choogle--Cale's calling card for near three decades--should try it some time. A little violin ("My Gal"), a stab of horns ("Chains of Love"), or some vibraphone tones ("New Lover") is all he needs to freshen the mix. While artists like Eric Clapton and Lynyrd Skynyrd have scored by adding testosterone to Cale's tunes, they would be the first to admit that his music is no less potent for being more relaxed. In fact, it's the off-hand manner in which he presents his political tunes--"Stone River" (ecology), "The Problem" (the President), and "Homeless"--that gives them their poetry and power. --Michael RossCustomer Reviews:
Is this the best yet - A great album for the J.J. virgin.......2007-02-20
Great CD.......2006-10-29
True Chill Out Music.......2006-08-14
6+ stars.......2006-04-25
Amazon, is there a possibility to grant him 6 stars ?...
one step Album-to Tulsa and back.......2005-10-19
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Take Me Back to Tulsa: The Original Columbia Recordings, Vol. 1
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Manufacturer: Rounder Select ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005AU9V Release Date: 2001-05-08 |
Tracks:
- Take Me Back To Tulsa
- Ten Years
- Away Out There
- Beaumont Rag
- Osage Stomp
- Blue Yodel No.1
- Blue Bonnet Lane
- Spanish Two Step
- Basin Street Blues
- My Life's Been A Pleasure
- San Antonio Rose
- I'm A Ding Dong Daddy
- Got A Letter From My Kid
- William Tell
- My Window Faces The South
- Crippled Turkey
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Take Me Back to Tulsa
Asleep at the Wheel Manufacturer: Import [Generic] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00008DCT9 Release Date: 2003-02-18 |
Tracks:
- Letter That Johnny Walker Read - Asleep at the Wheel, Asleep at the Wheel, Mandy Barnett
- Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
- Route 66
- Take Me Back to Tulsa
- My Baby Thinks She's a Train
- House of Blue Lights
- Miles and Miles of Texas
- Sugarfoot Rag - Asleep at the Wheel, Asleep at the Wheel, Brad Paisley
- Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
- Dance With Who Brung You
- Big Balls in Cowtown
- Last Meal
- Boogie Back to Texas
- Texas Me and You - Asleep at the Wheel, Asleep at the Wheel, Eliza Gilkyson
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Take Me Back to Tulsa
Bob Willis & His Texas Playboys Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000A2PVI4 Release Date: 2004-01-01 |
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The Best of John Stuart
John Stuart Manufacturer: Desert Star Records Dsr 1001 Bm ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CA8JEW Release Date: 2005-07-19 |
Tracks:
- Terrible Time in Tulsa
- One Empty Chair
- Train to Gloryland
- What Part of No
- Independently Broke
- You Can't Love Me Like That
- I'm Just Country
- Checkin Me Out
- High School Queen
- I Can't Get You out of My Mind
- Cry Myself to Sleep
- Saturday Morning
- Love in Your Eyes
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Take Me Back to Tulsa
Asleep at the Wheel Manufacturer: Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000087HYC Release Date: 2003-02-18 |
Tracks:
- Letter That Johnny Walker Read - Asleep at the Wheel, Asleep at the Wheel, Mandy Barnett
- Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
- Route 66
- Take Me Back to Tulsa
- My Baby Thinks She's a Train
- House of Blue Lights
- Miles and Miles of Texas
- Sugarfoot Rag - Asleep at the Wheel, Asleep at the Wheel, Brad Paisley
- Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
- Dance With Who Brung You
- Big Balls in Cowtown
- Last Meal
- Boogie Back to Texas
- Texas Me and You - Asleep at the Wheel, Asleep at the Wheel, Eliza Gilkyson
Album Description
Re-recorded 'Best Of' featuring the current (& best) line-up of the band with guests Huey Lewis & Johnny Gimble. Evangeline. 2003.
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Legends of the West / Under the Western Sky
Jim Hendricks Manufacturer: BENSON ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000M5PUA8 |
Product Description
TRACKS: 1. SIOUX CITY SUE 2. WALKIN' THE FLOOR OVER YOU 3. I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY 4. TAKE ME BACK TO TULSA 5. HONKY TONK BLUES 6. BIG IRON 7. LUCKENBACH TEXAS 8. I WALK THE LINE 9. MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COWBOYS 10. BALLAD OF JESSE JAMES 11. ALONG THE NAVAJO TRAIL
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Take Me Back to Tulsa
Asleep at the Wheel Manufacturer: Vivid Sound ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00015U4WS Release Date: 2003-07-28 |
Tracks:
- Letter That Johnny Walker Read - Asleep at the Wheel, Asleep at the Wheel, Mandy Barnett
- Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
- Route 66
- Take Me Back to Tulsa
- My Baby Thinks She's a Train
- House of Blue Lights
- Miles and Miles of Texas
- Sugarfoot Rag - Asleep at the Wheel, Asleep at the Wheel, Brad Paisley
- Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
- Dance With Who Brung You
- Big Balls in Cowtown
- Last Meal
- Boogie Back to Texas
- Texas Me and You - Asleep at the Wheel, Asleep at the Wheel, Eliza Gilkyson
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- Today
- Very Best of Herman's Hermits [Original recording remastered] [Import]
- Warchild [Original recording remastered]
- Welcome to the Cruel World
- Where Do We Go from Here [Enhanced]
- A Girl Called Eddy
- A Kiss in Time [Enhanced] [Live]
- Alanis Unplugged [Live]
- All-Time Quarterback [Enhanced]
- Ambulance LTD
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