Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys - Hall Of Fame

Hall of Fame [Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered]
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Format: Audio CD

CD Audio Ripp EAC, Lame Encoder, 192k vbr mp3 files.

This collection, originally a 1973 two-LP set, was among the first Bob Wills reissues to exploit the renewed interest in his music, drawing from his 1960-to-'63 recordings for Liberty Records. Despite the fact that Western swing's popularity had bottomed out during that era, Wills had his strongest Texas Playboy lineup in years, centered around veteran fiddler Joe Holley, steel guitarist Gene Crownover, and guitarist Leon Rausch. Of greater significance was the fact that he'd reunited with original vocalist Tommy Duncan, whom he'd fired in 1948. Though omitting Wills's final, honky-tonk-oriented hit singles with Liberty, the set offers up respectable remakes of 1930s and 1940s Wills favorites like "My Confession," "Boot Heel Rag," "Time Changes Everything," "Stay a Little Longer," "San Antonio Rose," and "Blues for Dixie." Wills and Duncan resumed their old patter as if they'd never stopped (Bob nearly breaks him up on "Bubbles in My Beer"). With excellent playing and a couple of rough-hewn Wills vocals, the set reflects the best of his autumnal years, before failing health set in.

Track Listings
1. Playboy Medley
2. My Confession
3. Blues In A
4. Silver Bells
5. Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?
6. The Jobob Rag
7. Sittin' On Top Of The World
8. Boot Heel Rag
9. Yearning
10. Ida Red Likes The Boogie
11. Stay A Little Longer
12. It Makes No Difference Now
13. Wabash Blues
14. Take Me Back To Tulsa
15. The Kind Of Love I Can't Forget
16. Li'l Liza Jane
17. A Maiden's Prayer
18. Blues For Dixie
19. Bubbles In My Beer
20. Hang Your Head In Shame
21. Time Changes Everything
22. San Antonio Rose