Country swing is the thing this morning on Deeper Roots. We won’t be spending time on the ancestral roots as much as we’ll be exploring the small local bands of the Southwest. We’ll use Jean A. Boyd’s excellent reference “Dance All Night : Those Other Southwestern Swing Bands Past and Present” as our rudder and guidebook in the show. The heartbeat of any American genre is usually the local band and during the later years of the Great Depression and throughout the Second World War people were looking for something uplifting to dance to. In Texas (and really all across the Southwest) the sound was country swing: a mix of jazz, blues, polka, latin and hillbilly fiddle. We’ll be featuring the small time big names like The Tune Wranglers, Cliff Bruner, Leon Selph, Floyd Tillman, and Adolph Hofner and so many more in our show this morning, direct from our studios in downtown Sebastopol.

No.	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
1	Adolph Hofner	Let's Count The Stars	You Oughta See My Fanny Dance: Unissued Western Swing 1935-1942
2	The Tune Wranglers	Red's Tight Like That	The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – The Eyes of Texas [Disc 1]
3	The Tune Wranglers	Up Jumped The Devil	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 1] Hot Mama Stomp)
4	The Tune Wranglers	El Rancho Grande	The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – The Eyes of Texas [Disc 1]
5	Jimmy Revard & His Oklahoma Playboys	Dirty Dog	Western Swing  40 Bootstompers From The Golden Age [Disc 1]
6	Jimmie Revard & The Oklahoma Playboys	Lose Your Blues and Laugh At Life	The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – Playboy Stomp [Disc 2]
7	Adolph Hofner & His Texans	I'll Keep My Old Guitar (1938)	The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, & Cowboys – Tobacco State Swing [Disc 3]
8	Bar X Cowboys	Underneath The Sun	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 1] Hot Mama Stomp)
9	Bar X Cowboys	When Mama Goes Out	Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 3]
10	Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers	Bring It On Home To Grandma	Theme Time Radio Hour – Season 3 – [Disc 1]
11	Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers	I Was A Gambler In Texas	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 4] Saturday Night Rag)
12	Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers	When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)	Hillbilly Fever! Vol. 1: Legends Of Western Swing
13	Shelly Lee Alley & His Alley Cats	Women Women Women	Western Swing  40 Bootstompers From The Golden Age [Disc 1]
14	Shelly Lee Alley & The Alley Cats	Try It Once Again	King Of Western Swing Volume One
15	Leon Selph	When You Smile	You Oughta See My Fanny Dance: Unissued Western Swing 1935-1942
16	Leon Selph	In My Dreams	You Oughta See My Fanny Dance: Unissued Western Swing 1935-1942
17	Leon Selph's Blue Ridge Playboys, feat. Floyd Tillman	Why Do I Love You	Country Music Hall Of Fame
18	Floyd Tillman & The Village Boys	Daisy May	Country Music Hall Of Fame
19	Village Boys	Boogie Woogie In the Village	Boogie Man Boogie
20	Village Boys	Old Joe Is At It Again	The History Of Country & Western Music – Vol. 8
21	Modern Mountaineers	Getting That Lowdown Swing	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 1] Hot Mama Stomp)
22	Smokey Wood & The Woodchips	Keep On Truckin'	King Of Western Swing Volume One
23	Ocie Stockard & His Wanderers	Bass Man Jive	Western Swing: Hot Hillbilly Jazz & Blues – 1935-1947
24	Ocie Stockard	Twin Guiter Polka	Country Hits Vol. 6
25	Ocie Stockard	There'll Be Some Changes Made	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 1] Hot Mama Stomp)
26	Bill & Boyd	Drink The Barrel Dry	Western Swing  40 Bootstompers From The Golden Age [Disc 1]
27	Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers	(When I Had) My Pony On the Range	Swing With Bill Boyd's Cowboy Rambers
28	Bill & Boyd	Jitterbug Jive	Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 4]
29	The Hi-Flyers	Watcha Gonna Do	The Western Swing: Doughboys, Playboys, and Cowboys – Oakie Boogie [Disc 4]
30	The Hi-Flyers	I'm Doing It Too	You Oughta See My Fanny Dance: Unissued Western Swing 1935-1942
31	Adolph Hofner	South Texas Swing	South Texas Swing