Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music / For All Our Cowboy Friends

Red Steagall | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 14, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Koch Records
• ASIN: B00004785W
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #264,130 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music

2. My First Night Without You

3. Under the "X" in Texas

4. Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)

5. Neons and Nylons

6. Truck Drivin' Man

7. Alexis from Texas

8. Whatever Made Me Think

9. I Saw Your Face in the Moon

10. The Walls of This Old Honky Tonk

11. Rodeo

12. For All Our Cowboy Friends

13. Dawson Legate

14. Rodeo Blues

15. Two Pairs of Levis and a Pair of Justin Boots

16. Freckles Brown

17. My Adobe Hacienda

18. Bandito Gold

19. The Night the Copenhagen Saved the Day

20. Little Joe, the Wrangler

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good news and not-quite-good news, March 28, 2000

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Jerome Clark (Canby, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music / For All Our Cowboy Friends (Audio CD)

The first 10 cuts -- the ones that comprise the wonderful 1976album Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music -- are as close to perfectionas honkytonk swing gets. As I hear it again after a long separation, the album sounds as good as it did when I bought the LP version nearly a quarter-century ago and spent the next few years playing it down to the grooves. "Neons and Nylons" holds its own against any country song about drinkin', dancin', and chasin' women -- an inexplicably neglected masterpiece of hillbilly art and a surprisingly subtle evocation of both good times and melancholy reflection. "Under the X in Texas" and "Alexis from Texas" swing jauntily, and "Whatever Made Me Think" is as powerful a catch-in-the-throat country weeper as you're ever going to hear. With its brilliantly imagined and executed stripped-down sound, the album wastes not a note or a lick, and it lays end to end one magnificent song after another, reminding the listener just how good country music can be when placed in the right hands. Perhaps inevitably, Red Steagall's follow-up, included here (the last 11 cuts), is something of a letdown, a decent though hardly outstanding collection of cowboy (mostly rodeo) songs, none bad but none especially memorable; certainly none gets close to the standards Ian Tyson set long ago in his own rodeo tales, notably "Someday Soon" and "Old Cheyenne." Steagall's cover of "My Adobe Hacienda" is just plain uninspired; on the other hand, he proves that you can't go wrong with the venerable Western folk ballad "Little Joe the Wrangler." His "My America," though no "This Land Is Your Land," is better than its title would lead you to believe. Steagall's heart may be on the Western plains, but his soul is in the honkytonk.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy NOW!, March 21, 2000

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Per Berner (Skövde, Sweden) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music / For All Our Cowboy Friends (Audio CD)

I got the original album "Lone Star Beer.." back in '76, when I had just discovered western swing and hard core country as a young teenager. Unlike most albums, this one has never gathered any dust on the shelf. It is still on the turntable at least every three months or so, after nearly 25 years. Naturally, it is worn out by now, so I am getting the CD pronto. You should do the same. This is as real and heartfelt as it gets!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of Red Steagall, July 10, 2001

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This review is from: Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music / For All Our Cowboy Friends (Audio CD)

If you appreciate Red Steagall you will appreciate this cd. It has some of his best Texas Swing music and his very best Rodeo Songs. After thousands of miles my tape of "All My Cowboy Friends" finally wore out and I thought I would never find another copy. Now I have another copy to help me get down the road again. Steagall's music is not for everyone but if you like his music this cd is what your looking for.