Tulsa Straight Ahead - Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight [IMPORT]

Leon McAuliffe

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 12, 2009)
• Original Release Date: May 19, 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Bear Family
• ASIN: B001U5Q1Q6
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #117,732 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Panhandle Rag

2. Hard-Hearted Girl (1)

3. Hear Me Now

4. Rag Mop

5. Cimarron Rag

6. Take It Away, Leon

7. Sh-Boom (Life Could

8. Be A Dream)

9. Run 'Em Off

10. No One For Me

11. The Three Bears

12. Bonaparte's Retreat

13. Blue Guitar Stomp

14. What've You Got

15. Birmingham Bounce

16. I've Never Lived In Tennessee

17. Eating Right Out Of Your Hand

18. Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy

19. Tulsa, Straight Ahead

20. Jelly Bean Rag

See all 33 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Steel guitarist Leon McAuliffe will forever be associated with the King of Western Swing Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, with whom he recorded the all-time classic 'Steel Guitar Rag'. McAuliffe led his own successful band from 1946 until the early 1970s. In addition to being a trend setting steel guitarist and an appealing vocalist, he was a formidable bandleader and arguably fronted among the best bands the music produced. McAuliffe recorded for various labels over the years, but his classic period was the six years he spent with Columbia. From his first release on the label, the all-time instrumental classic 'Panhandle Rag', he waxed some of the best, tightest, most swinging and assured western swing ever recorded. These recordings highly sought after not only by western swing fans but by fans of early rock 'n' roll and rockabilly for the many jump and boogie tracks that anticipated the coming of those styles a few years later. Bear Family has here collected the cream of McAuliffe's six year tenure with Columbia, including a never-issued alternate take of 'Panhandle Rag', and several other unissued tracks. Highlights include the unissued first and considerably hotter version of the hard-swinging blues 'Hard-Hearted Girl'. There are steel guitar classics like 'Mr. Steel Guitar' and 'Cimarron Rag'. A fantastic take on the early rock 'n' roll classic 'Sh-Boom', as well as what was arguably the best among the twenty-odd versions of the 1950 smash 'Rag Mop'.