Bob Wills For The Last Time CD

 great steel guitar
the back up band was great!!!!
Submitted by ritzul_a (fairfield, ct.) 
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 For the purest
I cried through the entire cd. This is the must have CD for any true Bob Wills fan. You can hear the emotions of the musicians voices as they recognized this was the last time they would all play together. Unbelievably haunting Bob Wills.
Submitted by a reviewer (Chicago, IL) 
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 I'VE ALWAYS LOVED BOB WILLS
Well! Where to begin. If you've got any Texas soul then you can jest hunker down with Bob and Tommy and the boys and commence to toe tappin' and singin' along with the GREAT TD, and I don't mean Tommy Dorsey. I'm a-talkin' 'bout Tommy Duncan. My only regret about this album is that they didn't throw on eof my favorite Bob tunes, Old Fashioned Love, in, but you can only squeeze so many good-uns in there fer sure. My hope is that some of these younger folks, who have a musical appreciation for great rhythm and soulfelt lyrical lines would jump abard the Bob Wills Western swing bandwagon and go for a ride. They'd never be the same for it! I was so afflicted with Bob I named my first born James Robert after him. I've got just about everything Bob ever recorded and For The Last Time, for me, just reaches out and grabs at my hearstrings leavin' me more than a wee-bit misty-eyed. I dedicate this simple review to my good, late friend Joe Andrews, who sang with Bob. Bob was an amalgam of black blues, dixieland and so many other forms and comin' from the poor roots he did was a real slice of what we call Americana. For me ole Texas Red Steagall in is rendition of "Bob got a Swing Band in Heaven" says it all for us true blue fans of the real King of Western Swing. Hold him close Lord for he was truly one of a kind.
Submitted by bobweiss (Grand & Glorious Empire of Texas, USA)
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 Music to Cut Your Teeth On
I was first introduced to this album almost the time it was released,.... althought back in the early 1970's Country music wasn't exactly cool,.... Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Linda Rondstat were the exception for the contemporary listener. Who knew that those musical influences were fostered by the likes of the incomprable stylings of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys? This album is both a tribute album and an anthology from someone who has virtually influenced music in a way that can be shared by only Hank Williams. At the time of this recording, Bob Will's health was failing,... the recording studio was booked for two days,.... All the previous members of the Texas Playboys were in attendence to record this album. Playing fiddle from his wheelchair, Bob Wills played with spirit hollaring as he always does when the music hits a sweet note. However, Bob Will's health was too poor to make it on the second day of recording All the musicians present for the second day knew a page had turned in their lives. Bob Will's never entered the recording studio again. The second day of recording there are audible moments of emotion from the musicians; voices were cracking;,... the music became almost like a wake,....at times spirited, and at other times mournful. In this way, "For the Last Time" is truely like two distinct works where on the first album Bob Wills is present and the second one the Texas Playboys are left eulogizing his legacy. This is one of the most beautiful recordings I have owned over the years,... and I rank it above almost all others in Country and Western in addition to any other genre of music (and my tastes are broad). Buy this CD,... From it you can get a sense of musical cross-overs of jazz, big band, blues as well as Bob Will's own innovations in the Country music field of 'Western Swing'. It is too bad the Texas Playboys only played together 50 years,.... they could have been something. I jest,... they allowed me to enjoy so many other styles of music,... and primarily due to this album/CD. BUY IT!
Submitted by orion (Regina, Saskatchewan, CANADA)
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