No foolin', it's April

[Ozark Tracker]

I bet he knows right where to say take it away leon and just where to turn it over to Tommy 

[Tensleep]

Thankee for that OT, enjoyed it a lot


Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh HA!


Here's Tiny an' Roy..... Play sweet boys!

[Delmonico]

Sleep, have you ever listened to the Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, Together for the Last Time Album, the one made a couple weeks before he died?  Merle Haggard got to fulfill his dream of playin' with Bob and the boys on that one.

We have a local non-profit radio station that plays Western Swing friday night 7:30 to 9:00 pm.  Good stuff, 89.3 on the dial but you can listen on-line at www.kzum.org

[Ozark Tracker]

Ten, when my grandmother moved into a rest home in Muskogee, we'd go visit about 3 or 4 times a week, the little old man next door was always sitting out next to his door, never did see anyone visiting him, so  one day I stopped and talked with him,  his name was Bill Wills, he was Bobs cousin and drove the bus for Bob, he had hundreds of pictures of him and Bob and the Texas Playboys and all the dance halls they had played at. he was real friendly after a couple of visits and pulled the pictures out and told me where they were and who was in the pictures.  
I enjoyed about a year of visiting before he was moved closeer to his kids.

he would always say it was his job to make sure all the chubby single girls were sweating when they left,  he said he probably danced a million miles to Bob's music.

he said that was Bob's main requirement,  make sure everybody had a good time.

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I have a copy of every recording of Bob Wills starting from 1950, my mom had them all and gave them to me, I continued to buy whatever I could find until Bob's death. I have "Together for the Last Time' I also have a tribute album that Haggard did that is outstanding.

I saw Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys the last time they played Dewy Groom's Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas, it was swell. 

OT, I am sure that you saw and heard some of the best tales ever told, wish I could have.

[Tensleep]

This for Lit'l Rooster

Windy Bill was a Texas man
Well, he could rope, you bet.
He swore the steer he couldn't tie-
Well, he hadn't found him yet.
But the boys they knew of an old black steer,
A sort of an old outlaw
That ran down in the malpais
At the foot of a rocky draw.

This old black steer had stood his ground
With punchers from everywhere ;
So they bet old Bill at two to one
That he couldn't quite get there.
Then Bill brought out his old gray hoss,
His withers and back were raw,
And prepared to tackle the big black brute
That ran down in the draw.

With his Brazos bit and his Sam Stack tree*,
His chaps and taps to boot,
And his old maguey** tied hard and fast,
Bill  swore he'd get the brute.
Now, first Bill sort of sauntered round.
Old Blackie began to paw
Then threw his tail straight in the air
And went driftin' down the draw.

The old gray plug flew after him,
For he'd been eatin' corn;
And Bill, he piled his old maguey
Right round old Blackie's horns.
The old gray hoss he stopped right still;
The cinches broke like straw,
And the old maguey and the Sam Stack tree
Went driftin' down the draw.

Bill, he lit in a flint rock pile,
His face and hands was scratched.
He said he thought he could rope a snake***,
But he guessed he'd met his match;
He paid his bets like a little man
Without a bit of jaw
And 'lowed old Blackie was the boss
Of anything in the draw.

There's a moral to my' story, boys,
And that you all must see.
Whenever you go to tie a snake
Don't tie it to your tree;
But take your dolly welters****
'Cordin' to California law,
And you'll never see your old rim-fire*****
     Go drifting down the draw.

*Sam Stack tree: the frame, or "tree" of a saddle was made of
     wood, with a leather covering. "Sam Stack tree"  was a famous
     brand of saddle.
**maguey: pronounced McGee, a rope made of Mexican Maguey fiber
*** snake: bad steer.
****dolly welter: from the Spanish "dar le vuelta", a turn or two
     of the rope around the saddle horn.
*****rim-fire: a saddle with two girths.

[Ozark Tracker]

I did hear some really good stories, he said they would always travel at night then, no air conditioner on the bus, usually not one at the dance halls, just fans and cold beer.

[Sod Buster]

I have a copy of every recording of Bob Wills starting from 1950,

Got 'em on 78s?
I've got one scratchy one.  I still crank up the Victrola and play it anyway. 

[Tensleep]

78s, 45s, 33s, 4 track, 8 track, cassette and disc

[Ozark Tracker]

  sn*w here

global warming,  ha ha ha

[Silver Creek Slim]

 

Slim

[Ozark Tracker]

it's just always something,   

[Tensleep]

Fer all you cold weather types, warm towels.......... 



All us cowboys gonna have


HOT CAWFEE

[litl rooster]

  Thanks for the Coffee Tenzzz, and the "Windy Bill"



My dad, was a big Bob Will's fan....my brother  is guitar picker, and he cleaned up his record and CD collection.> The 2 of them got me to listen to Asleep at the Wheel.  Their album a Ride with Bob> not the correct name<  is one of my favorites


lr>  ( who rides a center fired and takes his dally's)

[litl rooster]

Lets see if I can get this to post.  I couldn't find a link in a search so I scanned it.

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Iz thet one a them scan of yer haid lR, doan see nuthin! 

Thanks for tha cawfee Sleep.

[litl rooster]

Iz thet one a them scan of yer haid lR, doan see nuthin! 

Thanks for tha cawfee Sleep.

Me and the 'puter  have issues...It's there now.



This is from this mnths Western Horseman.  It's a 1880 Winchester and Main saddle....Listed in the catalog for $125.00   It sold at the High Noon Sale in Januaray for a profit.....$230,000......

[Tensleep]

Nice kak, doan know as I wanna sit it all day though.

[litl rooster]

 Yer right about sittin' it all day long..But there is something 'bout Taps

[Tensleep]

Right about taps Roo

From Ian Tyson's Jaquina to Freno

"Big long tapaderras hangin' both side of an old Visalia tree..."