Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 5

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This particularly strong installment in the Tiffany series showcases the amazing breadth of the Wills repertoire, not to mention the ferocious rhythmic attack of the late-1940s Playboys. Tin Pan Alley chestnuts mingle with jazz classics from Benny Goodman and Woody Herman and a number of fine Playboy instrumental originals. There is an urgency, a pulse, and a drive throughout this set, atop which flows the gritty guitar leads of Junior Barnard or the steel-mandolin-guitar assault of Herb Remington, Tiny Moore, and Eldon Shamblin, and it provides clear evidence of what consistently thrilled (and exhausted) dancers across the country. --Marc Greilsamer

Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 5,Bob Wills,Rhino / Wea,Country,Country & Western,Country Traditional,Leader,Pop,Songwriter,Traditional Country,Western Swing

Average customer rating: western swing at it's best A tribute to Junior Barnard get the tiffanies for him it's fun dancing to bob wills and his texas playboys One of the finest of the Tiffany's!

Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 5 Bob Wills Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Western Swing | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 2 Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 4: You're From Texas! Take Me Back to Tulsa For the Last Time Billy Jack Wills & His Western Swing Band ASIN: B00000333X Release Date: 1993-09-28

Tracks:

1. My Window Faces The South
2. Swing Blues
3. I Had Someone Else Before I Had You
4. A Smooth One
5. Don't Cry Baby
6. Three Guitar Special
7. China Town
8. Fat Boy Rag
9. Lazy River
10. Sweet Georgia Brown
11. At The Woodchopper's Ball
12. Sweet Kind Of Love
13. If It's Wrong To Love You
14. A Little Bit Of Boogie

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This particularly strong installment in the Tiffany series showcases the amazing breadth of the Wills repertoire, not to mention the ferocious rhythmic attack of the late-1940s Playboys. Tin Pan Alley chestnuts mingle with jazz classics from Benny Goodman and Woody Herman and a number of fine Playboy instrumental originals. There is an urgency, a pulse, and a drive throughout this set, atop which flows the gritty guitar leads of Junior Barnard or the steel-mandolin-guitar assault of Herb Remington, Tiny Moore, and Eldon Shamblin, and it provides clear evidence of what consistently thrilled (and exhausted) dancers across the country. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

western swing at it's best.......2004-02-20

I have a lot of Bob Wills material, but this particular collection was definitely the best I have gathered so far. I favor the later stuff as opposed to the earlier stuff, and this is Western Swing at it's best. It really swings. A precursor to rock and roll.

A tribute to Junior Barnard get the tiffanies for him.......2003-06-16

One of the most important legacies of the Tiffany transcriptions is the work of Lester Barnard Junior, the great guitarist who played with Wills between 1945 and 1947. His tenure with the band is largely missing its Columbia recordings of the Day. Barnard was like Spade Cooley's steel Guitarist Joacquim Murphy: he would simply disappear for weeks, and months at a whim or an intuition, but would always return to the band. Until he returned to Fresno and had his own bands.

Barnard was the real precursor of modern rock and rockabilly guitar playing. He set up his guitar in his own way with a DeArmond pickup and a pickup from a steel guitar, wired out of phase. He was one of the first to use a volume pedal. His though he had modified acoustic jazz guitars to electrify them, Junior's guitar almost always sounded like a solid body electric, not like an electric jazz guitar.
Thankfully, lots of Junior's work was recorded on the Tiffany recordings--in fact they ought to put out a best of Junior Barnard. On this CD listen in astonishment to the original version of the Fat Boy Rag (Junior wayed 230 pounds at his lightest!)which snarls and twists and bites and cuts like something the Allman brothers would not be ashamed of, or listen to the way he bends and scratches out the slow blues feel of Don't Cry Baby and Sweet Kind of love.
Just writing about it makes it sounds so good, I almost started to buy it, even though I have had this stuff since it first came out years ago.

it's fun dancing to bob wills and his texas playboys.......2001-06-01

the tiffany transcriptions vol.#5 offers some of the best guitar and slide guitar picken basics for any guitar student wanting too learn solo guitar melodies. this style of picken can work with any style of music. i've used it with rock,jazz and blue's, the music notes always fit.

One of the finest of the Tiffany's!.......2000-05-29

Bona fide American grade A western swing at it's finest as far as I'm concerned!This stuff is timeless! Oh to have been in Tulsa and Fort Worth in the 40's! A MUST!

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