Johnnie Lee Wills The Band's A-Rockin' - Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight (CD)

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Johnnie Lee Wills: The Band's A-Rockin' - Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight (CD)

1-CD (Digipak) with 36 page booklet, 31 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min.

Outstanding western swing from Bob Wills' younger brother Johnnie Lee in the long-running 'Gonna Shake This Shack' series on Bear Family Records®.
Recordings for Decca, Bullet Records and RCA Victor from 1941 to 1953, including classics such as Rag Mop, Milk Cow Blues and Square Dance Boogie - some on CD for the first time in years.
Carefully remastered from the best available sources.
Liner notes by our expert Roland Heinrich Rumtreiber in the full-color illustrated booklet.

Welcome to a new edition of Bear Family's popular series "Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight," this time featuring none other than Johnnie Lee Wills!

Johnnie was the younger brother of Bob Wills, for whom he played tenor banjo during the early years of Bob's success. In 1940 Bob Wills decided to split up the Texas Playboys to meet the ever-growing demand for live appearances nationwide.

To keep radio work and dances in their home base, Tulsa, steady, Bob entitled Johnnie Lee to remain in Oklahoma and form his own group - Johnnie Lee Wills and All the Boys.

This compilation offers many interesting sides issued on Decca, Bullet Records, and RCA Victor. The Decca and Bullet sides have long been unavailable on CD.

Johnnie Lee Wills did not record as much as his brother, but he had two major hits that helped define the genre and spur many cover versions: Rag Mop and Milk Cow Blues. Johnnie Lee Wills was quintessentially Western Swing and a great band leader, employing quality sidemen.

Deeply rooted in the rhythms and styles of the 1930s, Johnnie kept his arrangements tight, simple, and danceable. Thus, Johnnie Lee Wills and All the Boys were hugely successful with dancers, swinging and rocking Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa until disbanding in 1964! They also remained a radio fixture on KVOO, Tulsa, until 1958.

This collection offers some of the long-neglected Decca and Bullet sides of Johnnie Lee Wills and All the Boys, including his 1950 Bullet release Rag Mop, a #2 country hit that also reached the pop top ten.

This is high-profile fun for all you jitterbuggers, finger snappers, rockers, and rug cutters: Try hopping to Boogie Woogie Highball without losing a drop of your cocktail; try Square Dance Boogie – way too hip for all them squares anywhere; try the lofty fiddle rendition of Glenn Miller's classic In The Mood; try scatting to Four Or Five Times; try the swinging I'm Leaving (Yes, Indeedy) - showing where Bill Haley and his Comets drew inspiration from. After all, that, get yourself some homebrew and get low down with the risqué Milk Cow Blues, Oo Oooh Daddy, and Devil's Blues.

Rare, hot, and swinging – let's all ball with Johnnie Lee Wills and his Boys: Best on Bear Family Records®!

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Interpret: Johnnie Lee Wills
Album titlle: The Band's A-Rockin' - Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight (CD)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
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EAN: 4000127176462
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Wills, Johnnie Lee - The Band's A-Rockin' - Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight (CD) CD 1
01	The Band's A-Rockin'	Johnnie Lee Wills
02	The Thingamajig	Johnnie Lee Wills
03	Blackberry Boogie	Johnnie Lee Wills
04	Coyote Blues	Johnnie Lee Wills
05	A Bad Deal All Around	Johnnie Lee Wills
06	She Took!	Johnnie Lee Wills
07	I Like You Best	Johnnie Lee Wills
08	Let Me Be	Johnnie Lee Wills
09	Boogie Woogie Highball (Bullit version)	Johnnie Lee Wills
10	Hot Check Baby	Johnnie Lee Wills
11	Levee Blues	Johnnie Lee Wills
12	A-L-B-U-Q-U-E-R-Q-U-E	Johnnie Lee Wills
13	Smoke On The Water	Johnnie Lee Wills
14	Sold Out Doc	Johnnie Lee Wills
15	Four Or Five Times	Johnnie Lee Wills
16	Rag Mop	Johnnie Lee Wills
17	Two Timing	Johnnie Lee Wills
18	Two Step Side Step	Johnnie Lee Wills
19	In The Mood	Johnnie Lee Wills
20	Milk Cow Blues	Johnnie Lee Wills
21	There Are Just Two I's In Dixie (Two Blue Eyes That Mean The World To Me)	Johnnie Lee Wills
22	Tom Cat Boogie	Johnnie Lee Wills
23	Oo Oooh Daddy	Johnnie Lee Wills
24	Honey In The Horn	Johnnie Lee Wills
25	Ten Little Bluebirds In My Lapel	Johnnie Lee Wills
26	Silver Dew On The Bluegrass Tonight	Johnnie Lee Wills
27	Sothland Swing	Johnnie Lee Wills
28	Bees In My Bonnet	Johnnie Lee Wills
29	Square Dance Boogie	Johnnie Lee Wills
30	Devil's Blues	Johnnie Lee Wills
31	I'm Leaving (Yes Indeedy)	Johnnie Lee Wills

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From: Marco On: 30 Nov 2025

From: Fred On: 14 Apr 2025

From: Wes Tern On: 25 Mar 2025

Long overdue!!

FINALLY! I have played the old Bear Family LP 'Rompin' Stompin' to death! What a great compilation! I have all three of'em! Bob Wills, Billy Jack Wills and finally Johnnie Lee! How about Luke?