I used iTunes to mix a CD for our recent trip to west Texas. It's a combination of songs about Texas, songs about cotton farming, favorite Western Swing instrumentals (including arguably the first rock'n'roll song ever recorded -- Junior Barnard's Fat Boy Rag, recorded in 1946), and a few other songs that I just plain love. Of course, I had to start it with "The Texas Playboys are on the air!"
Here it is -- all tunes by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys unless otherwise noted.
- Playboy Theme
- Three Guitar Special (Tiffany Transcriptions Vol. 5)
- Big Ball's In Cowtown, Asleep At The Wheel (George Strait vocal)
- Dipsy Doodle, Billy Jack Wills And His Western Swing Band
- Miles and Miles of Texas, Asleep at the Wheel
- Panhandle Rag, Leon McAuliffe
- You're From Texas, Asleep At The Wheel, Ride With Bob
- Caravan, Billy Jack Wills And His Western Swing Band
- Way Down Texas Way, Asleep At The Wheel
- Playboy Chimes
- Yearning (Just For You), Asleep At The Wheel (Vince Gill vocal)
- Texas Blues
- Fat Boy Rag (Tiffany Transcriptions Vol. 5)
- Bottle Baby Boogie (my daughter's favorite -- she loves the way Billy Bowman makes the steel guitar say "Mama")
- Roly Poly
- Little Cowboy Lament, (sometimes called Little Cowboy Lullaby)
- Cadillac in Model 'A' (Billy Jack Wills sings about a small-town Saturday night)
- Texas Drummer Boy (featuring a Johnny Cuviello drum solo and a very catchy steel guitar melody by Herb Remington)
- Boot Heel Drag
- 'Tater Pie
- Mr. Cotton Picker, Billy Jack Wills And His Western Swing Band
- Texas Plains (Patsy Montana vocal)
- Cotton Patch Blues
- Smoke On The Water
- Hubbin' It
- Tulsa Straight Ahead, Asleep at the Wheel