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A Cowboy's Dream: Real Gone Music Issues Volume Two of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys' "Tiffany Transcriptions"

March 15, 2021 By Randy Fairman 6 Comments

Bob Wills Way Out West

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Bob Wills, The King of Western Swing, is back.  Almost seven years ago, Real Gone Music issued Riding Your Way: The Lost Transcriptions for Tiffany Music 1946-1947.  "Real Gone has given the royal treatment to the King of Western Swing," we wrote in assessing the landmark set.  Now, the label is returning to Wills' discography for a second volume.  Way Out West: The Lost Transcriptions for Tiffany Music 1946-1947 Volume Two is due on April 30, the same date as Real Gone and Second Disc Records' release of Michael Nesmith's Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings.

To call Bob Wills (1905-1975) a pioneer in the genre of western swing is an understatement; Wills played the style of music before it was so named.  With his group The Texas Playboys, the fiddler-songwriter-bandleader brought a new sound to the big band era by fusing acoustic and electric guitars, fiddle, and banjo with steel guitar, drums, piano, horns, and reeds.  His was a big band unlike any other, blending the musical, jazz-inflected sophistication of the Dorsey, Goodman, or Miller groups with a downhome, country charm all his own.  At the height of the period, his dances even out-earned those of his famous compatriots.  That was largely due to his versatility which is on full display in this 2-CD, 50-song collection.

Way Out West features Wills and the Texas Playboys' swinging renditions of ballads, blues, folk, and popular standards alike.  These recordings have been drawn from the nearly 400 recordings made by the band for Tiffany Music in 1946-1947.  The Tiffany transcriptions were made for radio stations and distributed on 16-inch discs to be played on syndicated radio programs.  When the Tiffany company closed near the end of the 1940s, only half of Wills' recordings had ever been heard.  Yet word spread of these performances on which the band cut far looser than on their commercial studio recordings.

In the early 1980s, Kaleidoscope Records began issuing the Tiffany transcriptions on LP; soon a CD series followed on Rhino.  Collectively, those releases only issued under half of the total songs recorded by Wills for Tiffany.  Real Gone's 2014 volume issued 50 more, and here's another 50.  Way Out West is housed, much like the first volume, in a six-panel DVD-style digipak boasting photos and memorabilia from the collection of Kaleidoscope Records co-founder Tom Diamant. The oversized booklet features liner notes from James Austin (Rhino, Rockbeat Records) encompassing testimonials from folks like ZZ Top's Billy F Gibbons, Asleep at the Wheel's Ray Benson, and singer-songwriter Chris Isaak.  All 50 recordings have been restored and remastered by Bob Fisher.

Look for Way Out West: The Lost Transcriptions for Tiffany Music 1946-1947 Volume Two on April 30 from Real Gone Music.  It's available at the links below!

Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, Way Out West: The Lost Transcriptions for Tiffany Music 1946-1947: Volume Two (Real Gone Music, 2021) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music)

CD 1

  1. Little Star of Heaven
  2. Who's Sorry Now
  3. Hoppin' Lucy (Instrumental)
  4. Silver on the Sage
  5. Dream (When You're Feeling Blue) (Take 2)
  6. Smile, Darn Ya, Smile
  7. Big Taters in the Sandy Land (Instrumental)
  8. The Convict and the Rose
  9. Cimarron (Take 1)
  10. Cimarron (Take 2)
  11. Please Don't Leave Me
  12. Till the Longest Day I Live
  13. Sweethearts or Strangers
  14. When You and I Were Young, Maggie (Instrumental)
  15. I'm Free from the Chain Gang Now
  16. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
  17. A Cowboy's Dream
  18. Got a Letter from My Kid Today
  19. Stoney Point (Instrumental
  20. I'll Get Mine Bye and Bye (Take 1 Breakdown)
  21. My Mary
  22. Everybody Does It in Hawaii
  23. You're Tired of Me (Take 2)
  24. There! I've Said It Again
  25. Chicken Reel

CD 2

  1. Ole Buttermilk Sky
  2. That's How Much I Love You
  3. Mississippi Delta Blues
  4. Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)
  5. What Is Life Without Love (Take 2)
  6. When I Lost You
  7. Spanish Fandango (Take 2)
  8. Dusty Skies
  9. Cool Water
  10. The Waltz of the Hills
  11. Home on the Range
  12. You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven
  13. It's a Sin (Take 2)
  14. Playboy Chimes (Breakdown) (Instrumental)
  15. Missouri Waltz
  16. Old Folks
  17. Silver Lake Blues
  18. For Me and My Gal
  19. Foley Waltz
  20. White Christmas (Take 1 Breakdown)
  21. White Christmas (Take 2)
  22. Durang's Hornpipe (Instrumental)
  23. Bob Wills and Clifton "Cactus Jack" Johnsen Introduction (Take 2)
  24. Bob Wills and Clifton "Cactus Jack" Johnsen Introduction (Take 4)
  25. Bob Wills and Clifton "Cactus Jack" Johnsen Introduction (Take 5)

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Comments

  1. Endre says

    March 15, 2021 at 11:17 am

    AH-HAH!!!

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  2. Robert Lett says

    March 15, 2021 at 3:26 pm

    Does these have any crossover with the big 10 CD set that came out on Collectors Choice in 2009? I’m getting it reguardless cause I missed that one.

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    • Avatar photoJoe Marchese says

      March 15, 2021 at 3:44 pm

      I believe these 50 sides are all unreleased, as the Collectors' Choice box reissued the Kaleidoscope/Rhino material.

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      • mike johnson says

        March 16, 2021 at 4:07 pm

        Joe, you are correct. These 50 songs and the previous 50 issued on Volume 1 are not included in the Collectors' Choice box. These titles were build to go hand-in-hand, with the added plus of all being "remastered" by audio guru Bob Fisher! The ultimate goal - The Complete Tiffany Transcriptions! Can you dig it?
        -mike johnson

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        • Steve BROOKS says

          October 30, 2021 at 7:52 am

          Hey Mike,

          Is there something in the planning for a Vol 3 in 2022?

          Many thanks for your dedication to these recordings.

          Best regards,

          Steve

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  3. Michael Harris says

    March 16, 2021 at 4:03 pm

    Since the co-founder of Real Gone Music(Gordon Anderson) was involved with the Collector's Choice 10-cd set, I think we can safely assume that these were not on the 10-cd Collector's Choice set or the previous 2-cd Real Gone collection.
    It seems as if Gordon knew the desire for more of the Tiffany Transcriptions, so he continued the journey when he founded his new label(Real Gone).

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