JIMMIE WIDENER, 18 Western’ Swing Rare Sides!
Fans of western swing know the name Jimmie Widener well. Not only did Widener work several stints with the legendary Bob Wills, he also worked with other great names in the music, including Spade Cooley, Tex Williams and T. Texas Tyler. Widener’s efforts at forging a solo career are far less known, but he left an impressive and uniformly excellent -- if tantalizingly small -- body of recordings. His sessions for King, Imperial and other labels, used the cream of West Coast western swing musicians, like guitarists Jimmy Wyble and Jimmy Bryant, steel men Joaquin Murphey, Noel Boggs and Speedy West, fiddlers Harold Hensley and Tex Atchison, and others. Here is the first Lp dedicated to the most underestimed musicien of the western swing erea…
A SIDE
1. GO ON YOUR WAY
2. SHE’S A SHADY LADY
3. JIMMIE’S JUMP
4. I CAN TELL JUST AS PLAIN
5. THERE’S A NEW DAY TOMORROW
6. I’M ALL THROUGH TRUSTING YOU
7. I LAUGHT WHEN I THINK HOW I CRIED / BOB WILLS And His Texas Playboys (Vocal by Jimmie Widener)
8. RED TOP / JIMMIE WIDENER BILLY LIEBERT And His Orchestra
9. OLD SOFT SHOE / THE SUNDOWNERS BAND (Vocal by JIMMIE WIDENER)
B SIDE
1. WHAT A LINE! KING
2. ME AND THE DOGGON’ BLUES
3. SHE’S DONE AND LEFT ME
4. COME A LITTLE BIT CLOSER
5. I’LL BE SATISFIED
6. DON’T COUNT YOUR DREAMS
7. YOU BETTER WAKE UP BABY
8. HOW CAN IT BE WRONG
9. TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT