Texas Swings

1. Billie's Bounce

2. I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me

3. Old Rugged Cross

4. Country Boy

5. Undecided

6. It Had to Be You

7. Rosetta

8. Blues in G

9. Sweet Georgia Brown

10. America the Beautiful

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Average customer rating: Great CD! Great western swing by Herb and a fine western swing band. technically great-soulfully a tad off for herb

Texas Swings Herb Ellis Manufacturer: Justice Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Jazz General | Jazz | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Jazz General | Jazz | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Quartet Standard Songs for Average People ASIN: B000000NQH Release Date: 1994-01-19

Tracks:

1. Billie`s Bounce
2. I Can`t Beleive Your In Love With Me
3. The Old Rugged Cross
4. Country Boy
5. Undecided
6. It Had To Be You
7. Rosetta
8. Blues In G
9. Sweet Georgia Brown
10. America The Beautiful

Customer Reviews:

Great CD!.......2002-01-28

Great guitar playing, great fiddling. Johnny Gimble and Bobby Bruce swing like mad on their fiddles and I would buy this CD for the fiddling in addition to the guitar playing.

Great western swing by Herb and a fine western swing band........1998-12-14

Anyone who has an understanding and appreciation of western swing will enjoy this fine outing by Herb Ellis, returning to his Texas roots with a crew of western swing masters. Good spirit here, and that distinctive smooth pulse that makes western swing so appealing. Herb shows he hasn't forgotten where he came from. His treatment of "Old Rugged Cross" is particularly interesting...but they're all good. This longtime player of and listener to western swing thinks you ought to buy this one!

technically great-soulfully a tad off for herb.......1998-11-06

herb ellis is great and the tunes selected are great but it lacks some soul-maybe he should have left the country musicians out

Average customer rating: Gatemouth is the essense of fun music Gatemouth takes it home Bad judgment by Gatemouth Not Enough Stars Swing It

Gate Swings Clarence Gatemouth Brown Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music Texas Blues | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Electric Blues Guitar | Blues | Styles | Music Modern Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Similar Items: American Music, Texas Style Texas Swing Long Way Home Back to Bogalusa Okie Dokie Stomp ASIN: B0000047F0 Release Date: 1997-07-15

Tracks:

1. Midnite Hour
2. Honey Dew
3. Toughen Up
4. Take The 'A' Train
5. Too Late Baby
6. Gate's Blues Waltz
7. Caldonia
8. Bits And Pieces
9. River's Invitation
10. One O'Clock Jump
11. Take Me Back Baby
12. Since I Fell For You
13. Flying Home

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Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown's tough-minded approach to the blues, country, Cajun, and jazz insures a minimum of nonsense and a maximum of variety, while his virtuosity on the guitar and fiddle insures the highest standards. Nonetheless, Brown's 1997 album is a landmark for the 73-year-old picker who won a Rhythm & Blues Foundation Pioneer Award. All 13 tunes on Gate Swings find Brown working with his regular road quartet plus a 13-piece horn section, enabling him to prove that Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Lionel Hampton have been as important to his music as any bluesman or Creole fiddler.

Gate Swings includes tunes by all three of those big-band leaders as well as compositions by Buddy Johnson, Percy Mayfield, Louis Jordan, and Brown himself, and they all swing with the massive force that only a big horn section can muster. Brown has leaned in this direction before, but Gate Swings is special, because it features the horn arrangements of Wardell Quezergue, an alumnus of the Dave Bartholomew band who arranged many of the best New Orleans R&B hits in the '60s and '70s.

Quezergue creates big, brassy riffs and thick, sliding harmonies, but he's sympathetic to singers and knows how to clear out space for Brown's vocals and guitar solos. Brown's voice isn't as strong as it once was, but his playing is sharper than ever. He phrases his guitar solos in long, legato phrases like a trumpeter, with few parenthetical embellishments. His solos have never sounded more at home than they do in the context of Quezergue's New Orleans big band. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

Gatemouth is the essense of fun music.......2007-03-26

A good friend of mine from Slidell introduced me to Gatemouth's music many years ago. He lived on the same stretch of Hwy 11. While I only saw him in live performances in local venues, I never got to meet him personally. In Louisiana, we have enjoyed many a patio party with Gatemouth providing the musical entertainment. My favorite CDs are "Gate Swings, Long Way Home, The Man". I was saddened over his death; yes, he may have been heartbroken as his house was destroyed, but I believe the pain of seeing the totality of Katrina as it affected his neighbors and friends was too much to bear.

Gatemouth takes it home.......2005-09-16

My husband played drums with Gatemouth in the early 70's. He always raved about him so I went out and picked up "Gate Swings." I'm surprised the CD still works I've played it so much.

Today, 9/15/05, I read that last Saturday, 9/10/05, at the age of 81, Clarence Gatemouth Brown died, shortly after his home in Slidell, LA was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. We believe his heart was broken.

This album is a swinging, riveting performance that grinds into the heart of the true music lover and keeps you tapping your foot and swaying your whole upper body to the beat saying, "Oh yeah, play it for me again Gatemouth!" long after Gatemouth has taken it home. Big horns, Big Band, big music, big music man.

Pick up the CD and swing with us.

Good night Gatemouth. Play it for me again next time...

Bad judgment by Gatemouth.......2004-05-01

Gatemouth Brown is a terrific guitar player and blues singer. I heard him live at the Bangor, Maine annual summer folk festival in 2002. Great show! So why the low rating for this CD? The reason is that I want to call attention to my disapproval of the lyrics of the song, "Caldonia." Gate describes how he dragged his ex-girlfriend behind his pickup truck until her body fell apart. Fiction, of course. But it isn't funny. It shows a cruel, primitive, controlling attitude toward women. This CD was released a year before the racially-motivated murder of James Byrd in Texas in June, 1998. Three white men murdered Bryd by dragging him behind a pickup truck. What apalling curelty! Of course Gate wouldn't approve of it, but he shouldn't have put a similar incident in his Caldonia song. Cruelty is cruelty, whether motivated by race, sex, or religion. Aside from the lyrics, Caldonia is a pretty good song. Gate should eliminate the murder part of the lyrics, or do it as a pure instrumental. If it weren't for the Caldonia lyrics, I would have given this album 4 stars. (In comparison to 5 stars for Gate's album, "American Music Texas Style.")

Not Enough Stars.......2001-12-13

Everybody gets this for Christmas. I wish I had tickets for the tune-up sessions. I'd be stunned if there was a human on the planet that, after listening to the first cuts, did not get up and... move.

Swing It.......2001-01-21

Veteran blues artist Clarence Gatemouth Brown takes us back to a bygone era on his cd Gate Swings. Brown refers to his music as American music rather than blues and does not like to be pigeon-holed. This cd celebrating Brown's fifty years in the music business, displays his skill at playing swinging blues like the great big-bands of the forties. It is no surprise that he does this so well. Clarence Gatemouth Brown first instrument was the trumpet and he says that he plays the guitar like a trumpet, fitting in nicely with a big-band.

He pays tribute to many leaders of American music Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan, Count Basie and Percy Mayfield. I love his version of "Caledonia." What makes that good girl so bad anyway? I also am fond of his tough version of "Since I Fell for You." It beats the numerous saccharine versions which I had previously heard.

This cd is great for a mellow morning or afternoon of listening. I wouldn't be without it in my collection.

If you like big band music, this is a must.

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Texas Swings Again Tailor Made Band ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B000GBEIYM Release Date: 2006-04-25

Tracks:

1. Miles & Miles of Texas
2. If You'll Come Back to Me
3. Trouble in Mind
4. Mack the Knife
5. Cowtown
6. Faded Love
7. Is It True What They Say About Dixie
8. Choo Choo Cha Boogie
9. Ain't Misbehaving
10. I'm Satisfied with You

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1. The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse
2. The Entertainer
3. The George Wallington Trios
4. The Return of Tal Farlow: 1969
5. The Winter in Lisbon
6. Time [Import]
7. Two of a Mind [Import]
8. Wave Motion
9. We Have a Thing [CD-single]
10. Where Would I Be?

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