Home In San Antone - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts/Chris Mills
Trouble In Mind - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts/Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Texas Playboy Rag - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts
Drunkard's Blues - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts/Kelly Hogan
Across The Alley From The Alamo - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts/Robbie Fulks
Sweet Kind Of Love - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts/Jon Langford
Time Changes Everything - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts/Jane Baxter-Miller
Hang You Head In Shame - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts/Bob Boyd
Steel Guitar Rag - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts
Brain Cloudy Blues - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts/Dean Schlabowske
Right Or Wrong - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts/Sally Timms
Roly Poly - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts/Brett Sparks
Pan Handle Rag - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts
Bubbles In My Beer - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts/Tracey Dear
Stay A Little Longer - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts/Neko Case/Bob Boyd
My Window Faces The South - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts/Edith Frost
San Antonio Rose - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts/Alejandro Escovedo/Jon Langford
Take Me Back To Tulsa - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts/The Meat Purveyors
Faded Love - The Pine Valley Cosmonauts/Jane Baxter-Miller/Rico Bell/Brenden Croker
Join the PVC's as they erect a worthy monument to one of the most versatile and beloved figures in all of American music. You get 19 Bob Wills nuggets that show the breadth of his musical magic, from C & W, to western ... more »swing, to jazz, to blues, and to all points in between. Bob Wills' own daughter, Rosetta, has given their efforts her blessing as, "the best tribute to my father's music I've ever heard."« less
Join the PVC's as they erect a worthy monument to one of the most versatile and beloved figures in all of American music. You get 19 Bob Wills nuggets that show the breadth of his musical magic, from C & W, to western swing, to jazz, to blues, and to all points in between. Bob Wills' own daughter, Rosetta, has given their efforts her blessing as, "the best tribute to my father's music I've ever heard."
Great music by talented musicians; less than quality vocals.
Stclair51@aol.com | Orlando, FL | 04/15/1999
(3 out of 5 stars)
"Wonderful renditions and arrangements of some of Bob Wills' classics by obviously talented musicians. Regrettably, some of the worst vocals I have ever heard.... I knew Bob back in the early sixties...he would have patted his foot to this music, but he would not have sung along."
If you liked Louis Prima, you'll love this album.
Stclair51@aol.com | 01/20/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"A phenomenal cover of Bob Wills and the Texas playboys. John Langford has long had waxed poetically about Bob Wills, and his love and respect shine through on this rolicking, toe tapping, gotta dance, turn up the volume, happy, happy music CD."
Musically awesome, vocals.....
gator480 | Cave Creek, AZ USA | 08/09/2000
(4 out of 5 stars)
"The Cosmonauts play with zest and enthusiasm. Vocally, this thing runs the gamut. Some vocals are obvoiously phoned in, while others are right on the money. Give these guys credit for keeping it loose and having fun. While most "tributes" are either staid in their reverance, or needlessly experimental, thsi one hits the perfect balance between reverance and entusiasm. And I can't get enough of Kelly Hogan's singing!"
Bob Wills meets the Mekons
m_noland | Washington, DC United States | 10/21/2001
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Pretty good musicianship: some good guitar work, nice to hear those mariachi-by-way-of-Lubbock horns on "San Antonio Rose," but the rhythm section doesn't seem to understand that this music is supposed to swing. Oops.Vocals extremely variable: the girls (especially Kelly Hogan and Jane Baxter-Miller) can sing, but the boys can't, more or less. This is a problem, if, like me, you grew up on the originals. The most painful example is "San Antonio Rose" where Alejandro Escovedo seems lost (and out of his range) while Tommy Duncan's vocals on the original sound nearly effortless. Jimmie Dale Gilmour is wonderfully suited for this material, but the other male vocalists tend to be less successful. Robbie Fulks can sing but exhibits his tendency to degenerate into howling on succeeding verses - Bob Wills as incipient psychopath - hadn't thought of that one.This one is hard to rate inasmuch as the quality varies so much from track to track."