Western Swing Chronicles, Vol. 2

Leon Chappelear | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 13, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Origin Jazz Library
• ASIN: B00006FSSV
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,178 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Leon Chappelear: Trifling Mama Blues

2. The Lone Star Cowboys: Just Because

3. Leon's Lone Star Cowboys: Who Walks In When I Walk Out

4. Leon's Lone Star Cowboys: No Mama Blues

5. Leon's Lone Star Cowboys: Bugle Call Rag

6. Leon's Lone Star Cowboys: Too Good to be True

7. The Lone Star Cowboys: Wonderful Child

8. Leon's Lone Star Cowboys: Texas Plains

9. Leon's Lone Star Cowboys: Baby Won't You Come Along

10. Leon's Lone Star Cowboys: Ben Wheeler Stomp

11. Leon's Lone Star Cowboys: Angry

12. Leon's Lone Star Cowboys: Red Hot Mama From Way Out West

13. The Lone Star Cowboys: Hang Out the Front Door Key

14. Leon's Lone Star Cowboys: Kansas City Blues

15. Leon's Lone Star Cowboys: Milenburg Joys

16. Leon's Lone Star Cowboys: I Never Knew

17. Jimmie Davis: It's All Coming Home to You

18. Leon's Lone Star Cowboys: China Boy

19. Leon's Lone Star Cowboys: Trouble in Mind

20. The Lone Star Cowboys: Crawdad Song

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Scott Yanow

"The music overall is quite enjoyable and reminiscent of Bob Wills' Texas Playboys. Highly recommended to Western swing collectors."

Product Description

Leon Chappelear was one of the most promising bandleaders and songwriters in western swing's early years. Beginning as a Jimmie Rodgers-inspired singing cowboy, he formed Leon's Lone Star Cowboys in 1934, a hot string band that became a sensation in Shreveport, Louisiana. This CD is the first devoted to his pre-WWII recordings, and it contains 27 tracks, including two rare solo tracks recorded by Leon in 1932 for Gennett, six cuts from the Aug. 1933 sessions with the Shelton Bros., and much more. Features the hot fiddle of Lonnie Hall.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Leon Chappelear, June 18, 2007

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Diane E. Hoeksta "howellhoekstras" (Howell MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Western Swing Chronicles, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

If you are and old fan to Western Swing or a new one. I would deffinately say GET THIS FOR SURE. It covers all of the different areas of Texas Swing Music, gives a sampling of the many different variations of this great music style. It will be a well played CD for certain.

5.0 out of 5 stars Chappelear is here!, May 20, 2011

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This review is from: Western Swing Chronicles, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

Wow, what can I say. The quality is outstanding and the "Origin Jazz Library" know exactly what they are doing, and they do it good!
This is history in the first degree, read it all in the excellent booklet written by Cary Ginell! Love his writing style! Music is great and the story is misery. Is Leon Chappelear the first musician whose career is badly effected by a car accident? Others who died or the career was badly effected after a car accident are Milton Brown, Carl Perkins , Eddy Cochran just to mention a few.
This series is fantastic, hope that " Origin Jazz Library" will bring out many great CD's in the near future, can't wait!

This is Leon at his best in the 1930's. (You may also want to check out his work from the 1950's on a Bear Family CD as "Leon Chappel")

Buy this OJL-CD and let it play and play.....