The only comprehensive retrospective of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, the double-disc set Anthology 1935-1973 contains material from every label the Playboys recorded for and features the hit version of each of Wills' most famous songs, including "Right or Wrong," "Time Changes Everything," "Corrine, Corrina," "New San Antonio Rose," "Take Me Back to Tulsa," "Cherokee Maiden," "Roly-Poly," "Stay a Little Longer," "Big Beaver," "Bubbles in My Beer," {&"Faded Lov...   [ read more ]

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While Cory Morrow's last outing was a pleasant but not particularly compelling all-covers record (Songs We Wish We'd Written) done with fellow Lone Star troubadour Pat Green, he focuses here on his own tunes and the results are far more impressive. Initially he comes off as a good old boy on the honky tonkin' title track, but Morrow's songwriting reveals some rather emotionally complex lyrics. Tunes like "In Spite of Spite" and "Drinkin' Alone" find him wrestling between the wild life ...   [ read more ]

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Of the assorted Texas rockabillies who plied their wares in Norman Petty's Clovis, NM, studio, the least heralded is Terry Noland. Much of this has to do with Noland jumping ship early in the ball game from Petty's direction to head to New York City with teen stardom waiting in the wings. He cut sides there with {#Tonight Show} musical director Milton DeLugg swinging the baton and little else, jumping from the back-to-back West Texas rockabilly sound of "Ten Little Women" and the title...   [ read more ]

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