Billy Jack Wills Cadillac In Model 'A' - Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight (CD)

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Billy Jack Wills: Cadillac In Model 'A' - Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight (CD)
- Another exciting title in Bear Family Records®' popular 'Gonna Shake This Shack' series.
- Billy Jack Wills was the youngest brother in the Texas Wills Western Swing dynasty.
- He wrote the lyrics to Faded Love, the huge 1950 hit for his big brother Bob!
- At the time, Billy Jack was running the Wills Point club in Sacramento for his brother Bob and formed a house band - one of the hippest Western swing bands of the 1940s and early '50s - that accompanied him on these recordings.
- Trademark: the hardest backbeat in country music at the time.
- Jazzy rockin' versions of Good Rockin' Tonight, Crazy Man Crazy, All She Wants to Do Is Rock alongside (Western) Swing classics like Air Mail Special, C-Jam Blues and Cadillac in Model' A' - great Rhythm & Western in its purest form!
- 31 songs, described in detail in the extensive illustrated booklet with liner notes by Roland Heinrich Rumtreiber.
In the late 1940s, Billy Jack Wills took over management of Wills Point, Bob's club in Sacramento. While Bob and the Texas Playboys went on tour again, Billy Jack formed the house band that accompanied him on these recordings. Legendary Playboy Tiny Moore did not want to get back on the road with Bob and became the featured star and co-vocalist in Billy Jack's Western Swing Band.
Since Billy Jack was twenty years younger than Bob, his musical influences were more up-to-date. Billy and Tiny had the most progressive band in the early and mid-1950s. Billy Jack also encouraged his members to improvise. Despite the jazzy solos of Terry and McComb, Billy Jack's Western Swing Band had the hardest backbeat in country music. Billy Jack indeed was on the verge of rocking & rolling. The band had a strong following in the Pacific Northwest, and their covers of r & b hits of the day were dance floor magnets.
Bear Family Records® presents Billy Jack Will's Western Swing band at their jazzy rockinest: The CD presents their splendid versions of Good Rockin' Tonight, Crazy Man Crazy, All She Wants to Do Is Rock, alongside (western) swing classics such as Air Mail Special, C-Jam Blues, and the song Wills is genuinely famous for Cadillac in Model' A'. Bear Family Records® presents the MGM version AND the rockin' radio transcript recorded at KFBK Studios, Sacramento, CA. Most of the other songs also stem from the 1952-54 Sacramento sessions held at KFBK. Most western swing bands excelled during radio sessions - the informality brought out the best in the high-class improvisers of that genre. Thus, the tracks surpass any commercial studio recording of the time. Here are 31 selections of Billy Jack Wills and his Western Swing Band – at their swinging finest!
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Interpret: Billy Jack Wills
Album titlle: Cadillac In Model 'A' - Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight (CD)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
- Preiscode AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127176448
- weight in Kg 0.2
Wills, Billy Jack - Cadillac In Model 'A' - Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight (CD) CD 1 | ||||
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01 | Kentucky Means Paradise | Billy Jack Wills | ||
02 | There's Good Rockin' Tonight | Billy Jack Wills | ||
03 | Crazy Man Crazy | Billy Jack Wills | ||
04 | Cadillac In Model 'A' | Billy Jack Wills | ||
05 | Out Of Gas | Billy Jack Wills | ||
06 | Hey Lula (Hey Lu-La) | Billy Jack Wills | ||
07 | Air Mail Special | Billy Jack Wills | ||
08 | For You My Love | Billy Jack Wills | ||
09 | All She Wants To Do Is Rock | Billy Jack Wills | ||
10 | Kissin' Bug Boogie | Billy Jack Wills | ||
11 | Roped And Tied | Billy Jack Wills | ||
12 | C-Jam Blues | Billy Jack Wills | ||
13 | Sweet Georgia Brown | Billy Jack Wills | ||
14 | Water Baby Boogie | Billy Jack Wills | ||
15 | I Don't Know | Billy Jack Wills | ||
16 | Sugar Blues | Billy Jack Wills | ||
17 | Bottle Baby Boogie | Billy Jack Wills | ||
18 | Milk Cow Blues | Billy Jack Wills | ||
19 | Jelly Roll Blues | Billy Jack Wills | ||
20 | Troubles (That Lonesome Kind) | Billy Jack Wills | ||
21 | Woodchopper's Ball | Billy Jack Wills | ||
22 | Rock-A-Bye Baby Blues | Billy Jack Wills | ||
23 | She's A Quarter Horse Type (Of A Gal) | Billy Jack Wills | ||
24 | Lonesome Hearted Blues | Billy Jack Wills | ||
25 | Dipsy Doodle | Billy Jack Wills | ||
26 | Tobacco Chewing Boogie | Billy Jack Wills | ||
27 | Mr. Cotton Picker | Billy Jack Wills | ||
28 | Hey Mr. Mailman | Billy Jack Wills | ||
29 | Teardrops From My Eyes | Billy Jack Wills | ||
30 | Cadillac In Model 'A' (MGM) | Billy Jack Wills | ||
31 | My Shoes Keep Walkin' Back To You | Billy Jack Wills |
That is why we love Bear Family Records!
So this cat Billy Jack Wills was apparently one big-time bad-ass in his day and this is why we love Bear Family Records, the German label who takes so many forgotten American pioneers, resurrects them from underneath the dustbin of history, and returns them to their former glory. Dwight Yoakam and Marty Stuart taught us that true unvarnished hillbilly music is actually cool, not a degrading epithet to be called such, more like a badge of honor. White Soul! (Let us not forget that when Elvis was changing the world, he called himself “The Hillbilly Cat.”)
Cadillac In Model “A”: Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight by Memphis native Billy Jack Wills is a stone keeper. Billy Jack was 20 years younger than his legendary brother Bob "The King Of Western Swing" Wills who installed him as part-time bassist and drummer for his Texas Playboys before sending him out west to California to run The Wills Point Club in Sacramento. So Billy Jack goes and forms a house band so hard-charging and in-your face, it becomes one of the hippest bands of the 1940s and early ‘50s. They had the wildest backbeat in all of country music. They could swing mightily. They could do the bop, do the stroll, they improvised jam-band style, they even took some cues from Hawaiian music. They stopped just short of rockin’ and rollin’ since there was no such thing at the time…but you’d be hard-pressed to believe that by listening to these 31 tracks, especially “Good Rockin’ Tonight,” “Crazy Man Crazy,” “All She Wants To Do Is Rock” and “C-Jam Blues.”
The HARDEST BACKBEAT in Country Music!
Billy Jack and the boys merge, western swing, jazz and the emerging rock 'n' roll genre cover tracks like 'Crazy Man Crazy' and 'Good Rockin' Tonight' in their own style.
Billy Jack's Western Swing Band had the heaviest backbeat in country music
Billy Jack Wills, the youngest brother of western swing legend Bob Wills, gets a nice release in the "Gonna Shake This Chess Tonight" series, which includes releases from 1951-56 for the 4-Star and MGM labels and 18 recordings from radio transcriptions from 1952-54.Billy was born on February 26, 1926 in Memphis, Hall County, Texas and began as Johnnie Lee Will's bass player in his teens. But Bob Wills wanted him to come to California and join the Texas Playboys as bassist and drummer. He also turned out to be a good singer, and he proved his creativity by writing the lyrics to "Faded Love," Wills' huge hit in 1950. In the late 1940s, Billy Jack Wills took over the management of Wills Point, Bob's club in Sacramento. While Bob and the Texas Playboys went on tour again, Billy Jack formed his own band to perform at the club. Tiny Moore, from Will's band, was tired of touring and became the star of the club and also the vocalist with Billy in his band, Billy Jack's Wes- tern Swing Band. The band also included Dick McComb (trumpet/bass), Cotton Roberts (fiddle/bass), Kenny Lowery (acoustic guitar) and Vance Terry (steel guitar). Being twenty years younger than Bob, Billy Jack's musical influences were not the same as Bob's. Billy and Tiny had the most progressive band in the early and mid-1950s. Billy Jack also encouraged his members to improvise. Despite Terry and McComb's jazzy solos, Billy Jack's Western Swing Band had the heaviest backbeat in country music. Billy Jack presents his versions of "Good Rockin' Tonight", "Crazy Man Crazy", "All She Wants To Do Is Rock" and not to forget "Air Mail Special", "C-Jam Blues" and "Cadillac in Model 'A'". Informative text in the booklet by Roland Heinrich and a detailed discography.
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