- Audio CD (Mar 13 2007)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Best of
- Label: KOCH Records
- ASIN: B00004785W
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #101,015 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Lone Star Beer And Bob Wills Music | |||
| 2. My First Night Without You | |||
| 3. Under The X In Texas | |||
| 4. Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You) | |||
| 5. Neons And Nylons | |||
| 6. Truck Drivin' Man | |||
| 7. Alexis From Texas | |||
| 8. Whatever Made Me Think | |||
| 9. I Saw Your Face In The Moon | |||
| 10. The Walls Of This Old Honky Tonk | |||
| 11. Rodeo | |||
| 12. For All Our Cowboy Friends | |||
| 13. Dawson Legate | |||
| 14. Rodeo Blues | |||
| 15. Two Pairs Of Levis And A Pair Of Justin Boots | |||
| 16. Freckles Brown | |||
| 17. My Adobe Hacienda | |||
| 18. Bandito Gold | |||
| 19. The Night The Copenhagen Saved The Day | |||
| 20. Little Joe The Wrangler | |||
See all 21 tracks on this disc
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Product Description
From Amazon.com
This CD pairs two prime Red Steagall records from the mid-1970s and reveals just why the Texan has become a pillar of Western music. The 1976 collection Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music marks the pinnacle of his recording career, offering a wonderful assortment of Western swing and Texas tonk. The title creed remains his biggest hit, but there are a number of other original songs--barroom ballads like "Neons and Nylons" and "Whatever Made Me Think" and two-steppers like "My First Night Without You" and "The Walls of This Old Honky Tonk"--that display his ample gifts as a direct, down-to-earth songwriter (he was a successful songwriter before he was a performer). Steagall enlisted a superlative cast of musicians including guitarist Leon Rhodes, fiddler Johnny Gimble, and steel man Sonny Garrish to help him carry out his vision. For All Our Cowboy Friends, from the following year, is a quaint and heartfelt tribute to the cowboy and rodeo lifestyle (he was a rodeo rider and horse breeder before he was a songwriter) that oozes personality and authenticity. Together, these two albums form a definitive Western music manifesto. --Marc Greilsamer
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Red's the Best!,
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This review is from: Lone Star Beer/for All My Cowb (Audio CD)
Are you a fan of western swing? How 'bout cowboys and rodeo? If you can answer yes to either of these, and you like western music then you owe it to yourself to check this out. Red, quite simply, puts out the best. I've been following him since the late 70's, used to follow him to honky-tonks and rodeos, from Sayre, Oklahoma to the NFR. Had both on albums but just now found these on CD. Try this CD and see if it's not the best combo of western-swing and cowboy music you've ever heard. Red, if you see this, wishing you all the best and a great big thank you for your music.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best of Red Steagall,
By A Customer
This review is from: Lone Star Beer/for All My Cowb (Audio CD)
If you appreciate Red Steagall you will appreciate this cd. It has some of his best Texas Swing music and his very best Rodeo Songs. After thousands of miles my tape of "All My Cowboy Friends" finally wore out and I thought I would never find another copy. Now I have another copy to help me get down the road again. Steagall's music is not for everyone but if you like his music this cd is what your looking for.
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Lone Star Beer/for All My Cowb (Audio CD)
The first 10 cuts -- the ones that comprise the wonderful 1976album Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music -- are as close to perfectionas honkytonk swing gets. As I hear it again after a long separation, the album sounds as good as it did when I bought the LP version nearly a quarter-century ago and spent the next few years playing it down to the grooves. "Neons and Nylons" holds its own against any country song about drinkin', dancin', and chasin' women -- an inexplicably neglected masterpiece of hillbilly art and a surprisingly subtle evocation of both good times and melancholy reflection. "Under the X in Texas" and "Alexis from Texas" swing jauntily, and "Whatever Made Me Think" is as powerful a catch-in-the-throat country weeper as you're ever going to hear. With its brilliantly imagined and executed stripped-down sound, the album wastes not a note or a lick, and it lays end to end one magnificent song after another, reminding the listener just how good country music can be when placed in the right hands. Perhaps inevitably, Red Steagall's follow-up, included here (the last 11 cuts), is something of a letdown, a decent though hardly outstanding collection of cowboy (mostly rodeo) songs, none bad but none especially memorable; certainly none gets close to the standards Ian Tyson set long ago in his own rodeo tales, notably "Someday Soon" and "Old Cheyenne." Steagall's cover of "My Adobe Hacienda" is just plain uninspired; on the other hand, he proves that you can't go wrong with the venerable Western folk ballad "Little Joe the Wrangler." His "My America," though no "This Land Is Your Land," is better than its title would lead you to believe. Steagall's heart may be on the Western plains, but his soul is in the honkytonk.
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