Bob Wills advice.
I'm looking for an economically priced CD of Bob Wills' greatest hits, preferably with his best lineup. The Tiffany Transcriptions look great, but there's a bazillion volumes of the thing. A double-CD collection would be acceptable. Any suggestions? My typing sucks today ... it's tough to tap when you've got a bandaged finger (don't ask). Ron Warnick NP: Del McCoury Band, "The Family"
Re: Bob Wills advice.
Rhino's "Anthology 1935-1973" is pretty good. It's about $25- 30, but has 32 tracks. Other than that, I also have a Sony Collector's Series "Anthology" - that was about 8 or 9 dollars. Has some good ones also (24 in all) - Mexicali Rose, Corrine Corrina, Blue Yodel Number1, Steel Guitar Rag etc; Tera -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: passenger side [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, February 19, 1999 12:32 AM Subject: Bob Wills advice. I'm looking for an economically priced CD of Bob Wills' greatest hits, preferably with his best lineup. The Tiffany Transcriptions look great, but there's a bazillion volumes of the thing. A double-CD collection would be acceptable. Any suggestions? My typing sucks today ... it's tough to tap when you've got a bandaged finger (don't ask). Ron Warnick NP: Del McCoury Band, "The Family"
Re: Bob Wills advice.
At 01:30 AM 2/19/1999 Ron Warnick wrote: I'm looking for an economically priced CD of Bob Wills' greatest hits, preferably with his best lineup. The Tiffany Transcriptions look great, but there's a bazillion volumes of the thing. A double-CD collection would be acceptable. Any suggestions? If "econonically priced" is your primary concern, the best value is probably the Sony THE ESSENTIAL BOB WILLS, with 20 tracks, most all of them truly essential, for $11.99. (Or less) Volume 2 of the Tiffany Transciptions is a best of, with arguably his best band, 14 tracks for the same price. I've got the two-disc Rhino ANTHOLOGY, which has 32 tracks, 12 more tracks (and adds Cherokee Maiden, Big Beaver, Blues For Dixie, and Faded Love among the 12 others) than the Sony disc, but lists for $28.49. When I first read your question, I'd have said to buy the Rhino set, but I could see buying the Sony ESSENTIAL and one or two of the Tiffany Transcriptions (which are very similar) and come in at roughly the same or less money. my two cents, b.s. "The truth ain't always what we need, sometimes we need to hear a beautiful lie." -Bill Lloyd
Re: Bob Wills advice, mainstream country.
Bill Silvers' advice is right on the money; your best choices for cheap, basic coverage of Wills' best-known stuff is the Essential or Vol.2 of the Tiffany Transcriptions. There are 6 songs that appear on both CDs; the Essential gives you more - another 14 songs - than the Tiffany CD (8), but a) some of them are alternate takes and b) some are less essential than the non-duplicates on Tiffany. Personally, I listen to the Tiffany CD more than the Essential, except when I'm after the very first version of a song that appears on both. I don't doubt that if someone were to ask for the names of 3 male and 3 female artists who, taken together, "represented a contemporary alt.country esthetic," the nature of the difficulty would be obvious: there's too much variety for such a small list to accurately capture even the biggest trends or groupings. The same is, believe it or not, pretty much true of mainstream country as well. Gill, Strait, Jackson, McGraw, Brooks Dunn, Chesnutt, Brooks, Byrd, JMM, Diamond Rio - none of these are especially hard to distinguish if you spend a little time listening, and none makes a very good substitute for any of the others as an esthetic representative (except for maybe Chesnutt Byrd, and even then, that's a big maybe). Same on the female side. BTW, though Faith Hill is certainly a huge star, the notion that she's less pop-oriented than Trisha Yearwood kind of blows my mind; personally, I'd say it's the other way around. As for the notion that: Hank Williams' work has a greater influence on many alt.country artists from Rank File to The Waco Brothers than on Garth Brooks all I'll say for now is that this is Alt.Country Fallacy #1, unless "influence" is being used to indicate something so nebulous and subjective as to reside primarily, if not exclusively, in the mind of the beholder - in which case it's a statement about the maker's attitude (informed or otherwise), not a statement about the music. In any event, Cheryl's notion about the most fruitful treatment of a time line - that is, the consideration of country styles, rather than trying to narrow it down to just alt.country WTI - makes a lot of sense. Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
Diamond Rio (was Re: Bob Wills advice, mainstream country.)
Jon Weisberger wrote: Diamond Rio and some other stuff nothing to do with Diamond Rio Oh I *love* Diamond Rio, and I'm not scared to say it either. They are on one hand the closest thing in Nashville to alt.country (and unfortunately on the other hand probably the furthest from it g) I think Jimmy Olander is such a cool guitarist, and Dan Truman is such a swingy pianist, and Gene Johnson is a marvellous mandolin player. 'Poultry Promenade' from their first album is still one of my favourite modern instrumentals. I don't think they get half the credit they deserve from the so called serious music press on account of their sometimes 'cheesy' material. Any one else agree? Louise -- If you like rocking country music, check out the Okeh Wranglers web site at: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bluesmoke
RE: Diamond Rio (was Re: Bob Wills advice, mainstream country.)
Louise says: I think Jimmy Olander is such a cool guitarist, and Dan Truman is such a swingy pianist, and Gene Johnson is a marvellous mandolin player. 'Poultry Promenade' from their first album is still one of my favourite modern instrumentals. I don't think they get half the credit they deserve from the so called serious music press on account of their sometimes 'cheesy' material. Any one else agree? Well, I guess I do, though their last album didn't do much for me, other than the excellent "What More Do You Want From Me," which was done better by Rhonda Vincent on her Trouble Free. But they're a solid outfit with some great singing - bluegrass-derived, of course g, and they come by it honestly; there are still Marty Roe fans out there who picked up on him during his bluegrass days, and of course Dana is a nephew of the Osborne Brothers. By chance, I just got a copy of the Best Of Cliff Waldron (Rebel), and was reminded that Gene spent some time working for Cliff - in fact, it must have been about his first real job, because he went with Second Generation after that, then (briefly) with J. D. Crowe's New South before making the big move to Nashville. He keeps his hand in on the bluegrass, too; check out his higher'n-a-dog-whistle tenor to Don Rigsby (with Ricky Skaggs singing baritone) on "Forty Years of Trouble" from Aubrey Haynie's excellent Doin' My Time CD (Sugar Hill). Jon Weisberger Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger/
