Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys: The Golden Years of Western Swing (1999)

About this title: This four-disc box chronicles the development of Western swing from the Fort Worth Doughboys' 1932 recordings through its heyday in the late '40s. Along the way, the collection covers every major artist, from Bob Wills and Spade Cooley to pioneers like Milton Brown and Bill Boyd, who have been under-represented almost to the point of extinction in the CD era. It also includes Patsy Montana's groundbreaking hit single, "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart," and other fascinating tracks such as the Tex-Mex stomper "El Rancho Grande" by the Tune Wranglers, "Bring It on Down to My House" by ... read more

Tracks:

1. Sunbonnet Sue [Brown]
2. Nancy Jane [Brown]
3. Oh You Pretty Woman
4. Brownie's Stomp [Brown]
5. Osage Stomp [Wills]
6. Who Walks in When I Walk Out [Hoffman/Goodhart/Fr]
7. Boyd's Blue [Boyd]
8. I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart [Montana]
9. Sadie Greee (The Vamp of New Orleans) [Wells/Dunn]
10. Who's Sorry Now [Snyder/Kalmery/Ruby]
11. Down by the O-H-I-O [Olman]
12. Barn Dance Rag [Boyd]
13. Never No More Blues [McWilliams/Rodgers]
14. Too Busy [Cohn/Miller]
15. Rambler's Stomp
16. The Eyes of Texas [Sinclair]
17. The Yellow Rose of Texas [George]
18. Red's Tight Like That [McKinney/Dorsey/Whi]
19. Buster's Crawdad Song [Traditional]
20. Big Daddy Blues
21. Feather Your Nest
22. Dirty Dog [Miller/Cohn]
23. My Galveston Gal [Harris/Adlan]
24. El Rancho Grande [Traditional]
25. Texas Sand [Coward]
26. Women Women Women [Alley]
27. Mean Old Lonesome Blues [Jones]
28. Bring It on Down to My House
29. Corrine, Corrina [Williams/Chatman]
30. One Sweet Letter From You [Brown/Clare/Warren]
31. Fort Worth Stomp [Deason]
32. The Women ('Bout to Make a Wreck Out of Me) [Jones]
33. Streamlined Mama [Jones]
34. Blue Guitars [Campbell/Reinhardt]
35. Dirty Dog Blues [Wood]
36. Mississippi Sandman [Fritsch]
37. Hot Tamale Pete
38. Married Man Blues [Holiday]
39. There'll Be Some Changes Made [Higgins/Overstreet]
40. Dirty Hangover Blues [Huff]
41. Lose Your Blues and Laugh at Life
42. Range Rider Stomp [Barnes]
43. Hold That Critter Down [Nolan]
44. Chicken Reel Stomp
45. Playboy Stomp [Wills]
46. Moonlight in Oklahoma [Wood]
47. Keep on Truckin' [Wood]
48. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) [Neiburg/Daugherty]
49. Just Once Too Often [Campbell/Reinhart]
50. Loudmouth [Wood]
51. Kangaroo Blues [Shepard]
52. Pine State Honky Tonk
53. Better Quit It Now [Hofner]
54. Pussy, Pussy, Pussy [Dorsey/Whitaker]
55. I'll Keep My Old Guitar
56. Cowboy's Swing
57. Lonesome Road Blues [Traditional]
58. Liza Pull Down the Shades [Wills]
59. Truck Driver's Blues [Daffan]
60. My Untrue Cowgirl [Cortes/Wiseman]
61. San Antonio Rose [Wills]
62. Gonna Get Tight [Harbert]
63. Let's Make Believe We're Sweethearts [Ahlefeld/Marx]
64. Mississippi Muddle [Barris/Cavanaugh]
65. Billy Boy [Traditional]
66. Good Gracious Gracie [Montgomery & Lytle]
67. Mean Mean Mama (From Meana) [Parker]
68. Jones Stomp [Jones]
69. Rockin' Rollin' Mama [Jones]
70. Blue Steel Blues [Daffan]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.