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Faded Love 1947-1973

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What a wonderful collection of Bob Wills music! I've been listening to Bob Wills since my childhood and have many vinyl and CD albums. This collection surprised me with many selections that I did not already have.

I received the set for Christmas (2006) and I still listen to some part of it at least 5 days of each week. The music is pure Bob Wills as I remember it from my earliest years and the DVD tracks remind me of watching and listening to Bob Wills with my father.

If you are a nostalgic fan of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys (as I am), spend the money and buy this set. If you are just a casual fan, I'd recommend a much smaller collection of greatest hits.

The Faded Love box set really sounds great in terms of audio quality. You wouldn't expect such great sound from something 40-60 years old. Especially Bob Wills music.

However, this isn't the boxed set I'd recommend. If you love your Bob Wills music, get the Take Me Back to Tulsa box set.

This Faded Love set sounds like Tommy, Bob, and others are at the end of the line, rehashing old popular songs they sang back in the 30s and 40s. This box set apparently offers music performed between 1947-1973, but from their voices and instruments, it sounds closer to 1973 than it does to 1947.

Take Me Back To Tulsa, on the other hand, sounds like recordings from the heyday of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. The instruments were better and more authentic for 30's through 50's. The voices were younger and better. They were making hits back then, not regurgitating them as they are in this set.

I happen to have both boxed sets. Got them both for a song. I don't even listen to Faded Love. But I listen to Take me back to Tulsa every damn day on my MP3 player. Going to work, coming home, laying in bed ready to sleep, out in the yard doing some work.

Do you want to listen to Surfin USA by the Beach Boys in '62, or do you want to hear their rendition of it from a '76 concert?

That's the difference here.

Put this one down and walk away unless you want it because you want everything Bob Wills did. There are plenty of songs in this set that aren't in Take Me Back to Tulsa.