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Big Guitars from Texas
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Guitar Army
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Here we go again!
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Al Casey
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Caravan
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RIP, Surf Guitar Dude. Over the years, Casey worked closely with Lee Hazlewood and played on dozens of sessions. He did a version of the Hucklebuck in the early 60s
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Los Straitjackets
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Hypno-Twist
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New album on Yep Roc-- "Twist Party"-- includes a DVD with World Famous Pontani Sisters and Kaiser George
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Daddy-O-Grande en Mexico
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Twist con Pollo
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Danny Amis con Lost Acapulco has more Straitjackets guitar and Mexican wrestling
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Ocote Sol Sounds & Adrian Quesada
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Ora Como Rey, Manana Como Guey
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A fake soundtrack album-- "El Nino y El Sol"-- with a nice sound
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Tele Ranch
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Speak No Evil
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A twang one-man band; find out more at teleranch.com
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Ornette Coleman & Prime Time
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Street Blues
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Ornette's R&B roots show up on "Tone Dialing"-- a great album, with Kenny Wessel on guitar and Badal Roy on tablas
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The Alohas
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Lunalguna
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Off a nice compilation called "Shake It"-- an Australian collection on Off the Hip
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Al Casey
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Guitars Guitars Guitars
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This 60s surf guitarists died in fall 2006
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Jack McVea
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Frantic Boogie
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MacVouty-- of "Slim's Jam" fame-- was a solid hornman and West Coast bandleader In 1995, he recorded with Slim Gaillard and Charlie Parker.
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Porky Cohen w/ Michelle Willson
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Trombone Porky
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In the 40s, Porky played with Lucky Millender; in the 80s, with Roomful of Blues. This is from his one and only solo album: "Rhythm & Bones"
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Johnny Nicholas
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Living with the Blues
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Title cut to Johnny's CD, with some of Austin's best helping out. Nicholas runs a cool jointin the hill country west of Austin. Check out hilltopcafe.com
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The Kropotkins
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Crow Jane
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Dave Soldier, Lorette Velvette et al. Memphis blues of sorts
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Spencer Dickinson
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Appalachia
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A sweet instrumental, not like the rest of this wild album from the Dickinson brothers and Jon Spencer
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Spade Cooley & his orchestra
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Swingin' the Devils Dream
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This guy wanted to be the king of Western Swing in the 40s; he had the talent but he blew it. Thankfully, the music still works
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Spade Cooley & his orchestra
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Crazy Cause I Love You
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In 1994, Columbia released a 20-song CD of Spade's "essential" work called "Spadella"
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Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys
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Osage Blues
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From a new 4-CD box of Bob Wills stuff
that just come out on Legacy
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Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys
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Get with It
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More Western Swing, as we get ready for our visit with the late Don Walser
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Don Walser, recorded live on WFMU, May 5, 1995 (Cinco de Mayo). Don-- who died on September 20 at the age of 72-- lived in Austin, Texas. He spent more than an hour at the station, singing, talking, yodeling and laughing. Don was in NYC for the Border Tour, on a bill with Butch Hancock, Tish Hinojosa, and Santiago Jimenez Jr
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Don Walser
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Waiting for a Train
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This is Don, playing live on the radio, the Jimmie Rodgers classic
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Don Walser
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Dixie Blues
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Don's tribute to the black musicians who laid the foundation for country music
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Don talks about his influences, growing up in West Texas. One time his dad took him to see Lefty Frizell, but Lefty was in jail! He talks about how, for 30 years, he had a day job but at night played the honky tonks
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Don Walser
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Don't Worry About Me
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Don was a big guy and when he sang this song, sitting across from me in the studio, the whole place swayed
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In the 1980s, Don moved to Austin; a few years later, he became a full-time musician. Here he talks about playing the clubs and dance halls-- the Broken Spoke in Austin, the Stampede in Big Springs and more
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Don Walser
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Take Me Back to Tulsa
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Cover of the great Bob Wills tune
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Don talks about being on the road with Butch, Tish and Santiago
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Don Walser
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Cowpoke
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This is Don's take on Elton Britt's 1949 yodeling classic
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Don tries to teach us how to yodel-- like they do out on the high plains of West Texas
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Don Walser
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Yodeling Polka
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Don wrote this when he was in Switzerland years back
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Don talks about the influence of Mexican-- and German & Czech-- music on country music
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Don Walser
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Mexicali Rose
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Don's arrangment of a country classic
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We wrap up our conversation with Don Walser, who was on the final leg of a tour-- and heading back to Austin
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Don Walser
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Rolling Stone from Texas
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This one is not live; it's the title cut to his 1994 CD on Watermelon
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Thanks, Don. We'll see you again-- in that great honky tonk in the sky!
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Don Walser
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Long Black Veil
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Lefty Frizell used to do this old murder ballad
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Don Walser
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John Deere Tractor Song
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Don says he gets lots of requests for this one
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Don Walser & the Pure Texas Band
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Jersey Bounce
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Nice instrumental to end our tribute: from "Archive Series, #1" on Watermelon Records
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Butch Hancock
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Smokin' in the Rain
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Lubbock, Austin, Terlingua. Butch writes songs wherever he goes; this tune from the 70s shows up on one of the Sugar Hill Records collection of Butch's early tunes
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Santiago Jimenez, Jr.
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Nuestro Amors
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Vals Bajito, from "Purely Instrumental" on Arhoolie, 1977
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Old Crow Medicine Show
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Down Home Girl
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Cool cover of an old southern soul classic; from "Big Iron World" (Nettwerk, 2006)
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Hacienda Brothers
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Midnight Dream
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These guys are getting attention lately for their mix of country and R&B; LA-based Chris Gaffney and Dave Gonzalez (of the Paladins) front the band
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Bobby Bare Jr.
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I'll Be Around
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Jr is an alt country success; check out Bobby Bare Jr.'s Young Criminals' Starvation League (Bloodshot, 2002)
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Carolyn Hester
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Go Away From My Window
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60s folk cover of a John Jacob Niles tune
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Jack Scott
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The Way I Walk
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This rockabilly classic was a crossover hit in the 50s-- and still works today
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Johnny Webb
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Cry Cry Cry
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Cajuns sing country on "Swamp Gold Country, Vol. 1" on Jin
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Jim Lauderdale
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Time's A Looking Glass
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From Jim's 2006 "Bluegrass" album on Yep Roc
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Raul Malo
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Beautiful Dreamer
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Title cut to the Stephen Foster tribute album
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Henry Kaiser
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Autumn Waltz
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Instrumental Stephen Foster
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Kinky Friedman
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Sold American
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Kinky for Governor
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