Country Swing Pioneers

Country Swing Pioneers

Country Swing Pioneers
Country Swing Pioneers

Join Dave Stroud for two hours of the very best of country swing music on Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music. The west had been long-settled when a new sound exploded out of the dance halls and barn-dance venues of the Midwest that was to become popular for it’s upbeat blend of jazz, hillbilly, and down-home blues. The arrangements blended strings, guitar, fiddle and bass, with the rhythmic sounds of urban jazz to reveal something catchy and danceable…and marketable. Before the beat was modernized into the mass market country blandness that paralleled mainstream pop, there were the pioneers including Milton Brown, Bob Wills, Adolph Hofner, Spade Cooley, Light Crust Doughboys, and a host of others.

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1Artist Title Album Buy
2Tex Williams & His Western Caravan Artistry In Western Swing Country Hits Vol. 8 Amazon
3W. Lee & His Light Crust Doughboys When They Baptized Sister Lucy Lee Western Swing Chronicles Vol. 4 1933-1938 Amazon
4The Light Crust Doughboys Mean Mean Mama Western Swing  40 Bootstompers From The Golden Age [Disc 1] Amazon
5Prairie Ramblers Deep Elem Blues White Country Blues (1926-1938) Amazon
6Patsy Montana & the Prairie Ramblers I Wanna Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart Columbia Records' 125th Anniv. Amazon
7Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies In El Rio Grande Daddy of Western Swing, Vol.1 : Brownies Stomp Amazon
8Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies Easy Ridin' Papa Daddy of Western Swing, Vol. 3 : Easy Ridin' Papa Amazon
9Bill Boyd & His Cowboy Ramblers Barn Dance Rag The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – The Eyes of Texas [Disc 1] Amazon
10Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers I Want to Go Back The Golden Age Of Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers Amazon
11Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers Bring It On Home To Grandma Theme Time Radio Hour – Season 3 – [Disc 1] Amazon
12Hank Penny Oh Yes? Take Another Guess King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 1] Amazon
13Hank Penny Sweet Talkin' Mama King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 1] Amazon
14Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Twin Guitar Special Western Swing: Hot Hillbilly Jazz & Blues – 1935-1947 Amazon
15Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Stay A Little Longer Take Me Back to Tulsa 3 – Just A Plain Old Country Boy Amazon
16Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys Take Me Back To Tulsa Tiffany Transcriptions Vol. 2 Amazon
17Leon McAuliffe Mr. Steel Guitar Tulsa Straight Ahead Amazon
18Leon McAuliffe Rag Mop Tulsa Straight Ahead Amazon
19Johnny Lee Wills Rag Mop The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 16 Amazon
20Tommy Duncan Stars Over San Antone Beneath a Neon Star in a Honky Tonk Amazon
21Tommy Duncan Take Me Back to Tulsa Texas Moon Amazon
22Adolph Hofner Cotton Eyed Joe Western Swing  40 Bootstompers From The Golden Age [Disc 2] Amazon
23Adolph Hofner Alamo Rag The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 8 Amazon
24Ted Daffan's Texans Because Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 2] Tulsa Twist) Amazon
25Ted Daffan's Texans Down Hi Lo Way Kings Of Western Swing, Vol. 2 Amazon
26Moon Mullican Cherokee Boogie Moon Mullican Sings His All-Time Hits Amazon
27Moon Mullican I'll Sail My Ship Alone The Very Best Of Amazon
28Spade Cooley & His Orchestra Shame On You (Tex Williams & Smokey Rogers) Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast Amazon
29Spade Cooley Troubled Over You Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley Amazon
30Spade Cooley You Can't Break My Heart Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley Amazon
31Spade Cooley & the Western Swing Dance Gang Feat. Tex Williams Sign Off Shame On You Amazon
32Smokey Rogers I Can't Help The Way You Feel Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys Amazon
33Cliffie Stone & His Orchestra with Judy Hayden He's A Real Gone Oakie Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53 Amazon
34Tex Williams Won't You Ride In My Little Red Wagon? Vintage Collections Amazon
35Hank Thompson Humpty Dumpty Heart 1946-1949 (Warped 4660) Amazon