Live From Deep in the Heart of Texas
Artist: Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

This is Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen at their best, live on-stage and out on the road with the New Riders of the Purple Sage. What a bill and what a grand time for a live album. This is how it really was -- wild, loud, and fun. Again they intersperse their own songs with old favorites. "Armadillo Stomp" was penned for this event, and... Read More

Beneath a Neon Star in Honky Tonk
Artist: Tommy Duncan

The 27-track compilation Beneath a Neon Star in a Honky Tonk contains every song Tommy Duncan recorded for Intro Records between 1951 and 1953, as well as his lone single for Fire Records, which featured Buck Owens on guitar. The music on this disc is slightly more straightforward than conventional western swing, yet it should appeal to fans of... Read More

An American Original
Artist: Chubby Wise

Although traditional fiddler Chubby Wise had appeared on hundreds of recordings by everyone from Hank Snow to Hank Williams, the best place to find his skipping and aching bow work is on the 1995 recording An American Original. Expertly recorded by Sonny Osborne of the Osborne Brothers in late 1994, the nearly 80-year-old fiddler tears through... Read More

A Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys
Artist: Asleep at the Wheel
Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 5
Artist: Bob Wills

The Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 5 contains a number of radio transcriptions recorded between 1946 and 1947. Though there are several songs on Vol. 5 that were on earlier editions of The Tiffany Transcriptions, the key to the whole series is how Wills and the Playboys stretch out musically, soloing with abandon and grace. ~ Thom Owens, All Music... Read More

Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 2
Artist: Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

Subtitled "The Best of the Tiffanys," and this 14-song collection is made up of live-in-the-studio radio transcription versions of some of Wills' most popular numbers, including "Take Me Back to Tulsa," "Cherokee Maiden," "Steel Guitar Rag," "Ida Red," and "San Antonio Rose." Essentially a live best-of, the performances and the material are... Read More

Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 1
Artist: Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

The first of ten volumes (produced for CD by Jeff Alexson and Tom Diamant) of radio transcriptions done by Bob Wills and his band in the mid-'40s is the strongest of the bunch. Done for the Tiffany Music Company -- a concern formed by Wills, songwriter Clifford Sundin, and radio personality Clifton Johnson (Cactus Jack) -- between 1946 and 1947,... Read More

Back to Back
Artist: Tiny Moore

Tiny Moore, Jethro Burns and Eldon Shamblin play country-jazz magnificently. ~ David Vinopal, All Music Guide Read More

A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (Or My Salute to Bob Wills)
Artist: Merle Haggard & The Strangers

After releasing his tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, Merle Haggard immediately set about working on a tribute to his other major musical idol, Bob Wills. Haggard learned how to play fiddle and, within a month, he recruited many of the original Playboys to augment the Strangers and began recording the album that became A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle... Read More

Western Standard Time
Artist: Asleep at the Wheel
Pasture Prime
Artist: Asleep at the Wheel