Sons of the Pioneers: Wagon West
Sons of the Pioneers
SKU: 01441437
Sons of the Pioneers: Wagon West
Sons of the Pioneers
SKU: 01441437
Format: CD
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Title: Wagon West
Artist: Sons of the Pioneers
Label: Bear Family
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 4000127156402
Genre: Western, Box Sets
Wagons West is a deceptively fine account of The Sons of the Pioneers' music, from what were not only their years of greatest popularity - 1945 through 1954 - but also the period in which they started to make full use of recording technology. From 1935 onward, when the Farr brothers came aboard, the group could always function as a self-contained unit, and their 1930s recordings and radio transcriptions are in a class by themselves in that regard; what you heard on the records was what you got in concert. But after signing to RCA in 1945, the group - by now a sextet, including founders Bob Nolan and Tim Spencer - availed itself of a range of session players who included guitarist Perry Botkin, steel guitarist Charles Richard Roberts, bassist (and future official group member) Deuce Spriggins, and Rex Dalton Call on violin, to augment Hugh Farr's fiddle and Karl Farr's guitar on tracks like "The Timber Trail" and "Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima" (the latter a topical number that works as a Western tune). And for their next session in January of 1946, they added piano and drums to their studio complement for songs like "You're Getting Tired of Me" and "You'll Be Sorry When I'm Gone" (both authored by Fred Rose). These sides and the ones that followed made concessions to popular taste that, in a way, anticipated the development of the "countrypolitan" sound in Nashville (though the Pioneers recorded in Hollywood or Chicago), but never lost sight of the group's core sound. What's more, the latter was better than ever - from March of 1946 onward, Lloyd Perryman, who was an essential part of the Pioneers' classic prewar lineup, was back in the fold, and they were at greater than full strength with Nolan, Spencer, the Farrs, Ken Carson, and Shug Fisher (or Pat Brady) making them a septet. Thus, the version of "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" here, from March 1946, may not have the lean, stripped-down beauty of the group's classic 1930s recording, but it has a surprisingly tasteful, ornate beauty, even with three violinists working behind Hugh Farr, and the presence of a saxophone on "Out California Way" doesn't hurt a bit, on a cut that's as much Western swing (complete with a bluesy Karl Farr acoustic guitar solo) as it is cowboy music. Plus, anyone who wants more of Farr's solo work need only wait for the delightful break on "Grievin' My Heart Out for You," the next song up from the same session, which also spotlights Hugh's fiddle. The 115 songs are far more diverse than the box's title or the group's image would lead one to expect, comprised in equal parts of traditional country, gospel, cowboy songs, topical songs (including the controversial "Old Man Atom"), movie songs (most notably from John Ford's Wagon Master), and elements of swing and blues, all sung in multi-part harmonies and no two songs alike enough to let a listener anticipate the breaks and solos. They occasionally go over the line into pop music, but the group never gets lost, even on "Baby, I Ain't Gonna Cry No More," with it's 30-man backing orchestra. Some of the most interesting material here is also some of the most improbable, such as the gospel/topical "What This Country Needs," which incorporates some solid country blues elements within it's quasi-"political" sermon. And it ought to be reassuring to potential purchasers that the sound quality is consistent throughout; the whole set sounds very good, and there's no huge jump up in quality from the 1945-1947 sides, which were recorded on wax masters before magnetic tape became available, and those from 1948-1952, dating from after the advent of tape recording. It's all in excellent condition on the listening end, and oddly enough, there are signs of more minor distortion repaired in some of the later sides. The set is topped off with a handsomely illustrated booklet typical of Bear Family's output, which gives complete session and release information on every so.
Tracks:
1.1 Forgive ; Forget
1.2 Cool Water
1.3 The Timber Trail
1.4 Stars ; Stripes on Iwo Jima
1.5 You're Getting Tired of Me
1.6 Goldstar Mother with Silvery Hair
1.7 You'll Be Sorry When I'm Gone
1.8 I Wear Your Memory in My Heart
1.9 Cowboy Camp Meetin'
1.10 Tumbling Tumbleweeds
1.11 Out California Way
1.12 Grievin' My Heart Out for You
1.13 No One to Cry to
1.14 Everlasting HLLS of Oklahoma
1.15 Chant of the Wanderer
1.16 Blue Prairie Trees
1.17 Letter Marked Unclaimed
1.18 Baby Doll
1.19 A Penny for Your Thoughts
1.20 Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
1.21 Let's Pretend
1.22 Cigareetes, Whusky ; Wild Women
1.23 Teardrops in My Heart
1.24 My Best to You
1.25 Will There Be Sagebrush in Heaven
1.26 You Don't Know What Lonesome Is
1.27 You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry
1.28 Lead Me Gently Home Father
1.29 Too High, Too Wide, Too Low
1.30 Out in Pioneertown
1.31 A Hundred ; Sixty Acres
1.32 Sea Walker
1.33 Read the Bible Every Day
1.34 Last Round-Up
1.35 Two Eyes, Two Lips But No Heart
1.36 Cowboy Country
1.37 The Bar-None Ranch (In the Sky)
1.38 Where Are You
1.39 Calico Apron ; a Gingham Gown
1.40 Happy Birthday Polka
1.41 Let Me Share Your Name
1.42 Wind
1.43 Whiffenpoof Song
1.44 Old Rugged Cross
1.45 Power in the Blood
1.46 Touch of God's Hand
1.47 Rounded Up in Glory
1.48 Sante Fe, New Mexico
1.49 Down Where the Rio Flows (Take 1)
1.50 Down Where the Rio Flows (Take 2)
1.51 My Feet Takes Me Away
1.52 Red River Valley
1.53 Serenade to a Coyote
1.54 The Missouri Is a Devil of a Woman
1.55 No Rodeo Dough
1.56 Sentimental, Worried and Blue
1.57 Little Gray Home in the West
1.58 I Still Do
1.59 Riders in the Sky
1.60 Room Full of Roses
1.61 No One Here But You
1.62 Lie Low Little Dogies
1.63 Let's Go West Again
1.64 Wind
1.65 Love at the County Fair (FT. Dale Evans)
1.66 Wedding Dolls (From Your Wedding Cake)
1.67 Outlaws
1.68 Roses
1.69 Eagle's Heart
1.70 Land Beyond the Sun
1.71 I Told Them All About You
1.72 Wagons West
1.73 Rollin' Dust
1.74 Song of the Wagon Master
1.75 Chuckawalla Swing
1.76 Old Man Atom
1.77 What This Country Needs
1.78 Baby, I Ain't Gonna Cry No More
1.79 Little White Cross
1.80 America Forever
1.81 Daddy's Little Cowboy
1.82 Baby, I Ain't Gonna Cry No More
1.83 Moonlight ; Roses (Bring Mem'ries of You)
1.84 San Antonio Rose
1.85 Bring Your Roses to Her Now
1.86 Mexicali Rose
1.87 Lonesome
1.88 Wondrous Word
1.89 Resurrectus
1.90 Wind
1.91 Waltz of the Roses
1.92 Lord's Prayer
1.93 Heart Break Hill
1.94 Ho Le O
1.95 I Still Do
1.96 Waltz of the Roses
1.97 I Still Do
1.98 Outlaw
1.99 Diesel Smoke (Take 1)
1.100 Almost
1.101 Diesel Smoke (Take 2)
1.102 Empty Saddles
1.103 There's a Goldmine in the Sky
1.104 Old Pioneer
1.105 Home on the Range
1.106 If You Would Only Be Mine
1.107 Sierra Nevada
1.108 River of No Return
1.109 Lilies Grow High
1.110 Lonely Little Room
1.111 Montana
1.112 Somebody Bigger Than You ; I
1.113 Mystery of His Way
1.114 The Mystery of His Way
Artist: Sons of the Pioneers
Label: Bear Family
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 4000127156402
Genre: Western, Box Sets
Wagons West is a deceptively fine account of The Sons of the Pioneers' music, from what were not only their years of greatest popularity - 1945 through 1954 - but also the period in which they started to make full use of recording technology. From 1935 onward, when the Farr brothers came aboard, the group could always function as a self-contained unit, and their 1930s recordings and radio transcriptions are in a class by themselves in that regard; what you heard on the records was what you got in concert. But after signing to RCA in 1945, the group - by now a sextet, including founders Bob Nolan and Tim Spencer - availed itself of a range of session players who included guitarist Perry Botkin, steel guitarist Charles Richard Roberts, bassist (and future official group member) Deuce Spriggins, and Rex Dalton Call on violin, to augment Hugh Farr's fiddle and Karl Farr's guitar on tracks like "The Timber Trail" and "Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima" (the latter a topical number that works as a Western tune). And for their next session in January of 1946, they added piano and drums to their studio complement for songs like "You're Getting Tired of Me" and "You'll Be Sorry When I'm Gone" (both authored by Fred Rose). These sides and the ones that followed made concessions to popular taste that, in a way, anticipated the development of the "countrypolitan" sound in Nashville (though the Pioneers recorded in Hollywood or Chicago), but never lost sight of the group's core sound. What's more, the latter was better than ever - from March of 1946 onward, Lloyd Perryman, who was an essential part of the Pioneers' classic prewar lineup, was back in the fold, and they were at greater than full strength with Nolan, Spencer, the Farrs, Ken Carson, and Shug Fisher (or Pat Brady) making them a septet. Thus, the version of "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" here, from March 1946, may not have the lean, stripped-down beauty of the group's classic 1930s recording, but it has a surprisingly tasteful, ornate beauty, even with three violinists working behind Hugh Farr, and the presence of a saxophone on "Out California Way" doesn't hurt a bit, on a cut that's as much Western swing (complete with a bluesy Karl Farr acoustic guitar solo) as it is cowboy music. Plus, anyone who wants more of Farr's solo work need only wait for the delightful break on "Grievin' My Heart Out for You," the next song up from the same session, which also spotlights Hugh's fiddle. The 115 songs are far more diverse than the box's title or the group's image would lead one to expect, comprised in equal parts of traditional country, gospel, cowboy songs, topical songs (including the controversial "Old Man Atom"), movie songs (most notably from John Ford's Wagon Master), and elements of swing and blues, all sung in multi-part harmonies and no two songs alike enough to let a listener anticipate the breaks and solos. They occasionally go over the line into pop music, but the group never gets lost, even on "Baby, I Ain't Gonna Cry No More," with it's 30-man backing orchestra. Some of the most interesting material here is also some of the most improbable, such as the gospel/topical "What This Country Needs," which incorporates some solid country blues elements within it's quasi-"political" sermon. And it ought to be reassuring to potential purchasers that the sound quality is consistent throughout; the whole set sounds very good, and there's no huge jump up in quality from the 1945-1947 sides, which were recorded on wax masters before magnetic tape became available, and those from 1948-1952, dating from after the advent of tape recording. It's all in excellent condition on the listening end, and oddly enough, there are signs of more minor distortion repaired in some of the later sides. The set is topped off with a handsomely illustrated booklet typical of Bear Family's output, which gives complete session and release information on every so.
Tracks:
1.1 Forgive ; Forget
1.2 Cool Water
1.3 The Timber Trail
1.4 Stars ; Stripes on Iwo Jima
1.5 You're Getting Tired of Me
1.6 Goldstar Mother with Silvery Hair
1.7 You'll Be Sorry When I'm Gone
1.8 I Wear Your Memory in My Heart
1.9 Cowboy Camp Meetin'
1.10 Tumbling Tumbleweeds
1.11 Out California Way
1.12 Grievin' My Heart Out for You
1.13 No One to Cry to
1.14 Everlasting HLLS of Oklahoma
1.15 Chant of the Wanderer
1.16 Blue Prairie Trees
1.17 Letter Marked Unclaimed
1.18 Baby Doll
1.19 A Penny for Your Thoughts
1.20 Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
1.21 Let's Pretend
1.22 Cigareetes, Whusky ; Wild Women
1.23 Teardrops in My Heart
1.24 My Best to You
1.25 Will There Be Sagebrush in Heaven
1.26 You Don't Know What Lonesome Is
1.27 You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry
1.28 Lead Me Gently Home Father
1.29 Too High, Too Wide, Too Low
1.30 Out in Pioneertown
1.31 A Hundred ; Sixty Acres
1.32 Sea Walker
1.33 Read the Bible Every Day
1.34 Last Round-Up
1.35 Two Eyes, Two Lips But No Heart
1.36 Cowboy Country
1.37 The Bar-None Ranch (In the Sky)
1.38 Where Are You
1.39 Calico Apron ; a Gingham Gown
1.40 Happy Birthday Polka
1.41 Let Me Share Your Name
1.42 Wind
1.43 Whiffenpoof Song
1.44 Old Rugged Cross
1.45 Power in the Blood
1.46 Touch of God's Hand
1.47 Rounded Up in Glory
1.48 Sante Fe, New Mexico
1.49 Down Where the Rio Flows (Take 1)
1.50 Down Where the Rio Flows (Take 2)
1.51 My Feet Takes Me Away
1.52 Red River Valley
1.53 Serenade to a Coyote
1.54 The Missouri Is a Devil of a Woman
1.55 No Rodeo Dough
1.56 Sentimental, Worried and Blue
1.57 Little Gray Home in the West
1.58 I Still Do
1.59 Riders in the Sky
1.60 Room Full of Roses
1.61 No One Here But You
1.62 Lie Low Little Dogies
1.63 Let's Go West Again
1.64 Wind
1.65 Love at the County Fair (FT. Dale Evans)
1.66 Wedding Dolls (From Your Wedding Cake)
1.67 Outlaws
1.68 Roses
1.69 Eagle's Heart
1.70 Land Beyond the Sun
1.71 I Told Them All About You
1.72 Wagons West
1.73 Rollin' Dust
1.74 Song of the Wagon Master
1.75 Chuckawalla Swing
1.76 Old Man Atom
1.77 What This Country Needs
1.78 Baby, I Ain't Gonna Cry No More
1.79 Little White Cross
1.80 America Forever
1.81 Daddy's Little Cowboy
1.82 Baby, I Ain't Gonna Cry No More
1.83 Moonlight ; Roses (Bring Mem'ries of You)
1.84 San Antonio Rose
1.85 Bring Your Roses to Her Now
1.86 Mexicali Rose
1.87 Lonesome
1.88 Wondrous Word
1.89 Resurrectus
1.90 Wind
1.91 Waltz of the Roses
1.92 Lord's Prayer
1.93 Heart Break Hill
1.94 Ho Le O
1.95 I Still Do
1.96 Waltz of the Roses
1.97 I Still Do
1.98 Outlaw
1.99 Diesel Smoke (Take 1)
1.100 Almost
1.101 Diesel Smoke (Take 2)
1.102 Empty Saddles
1.103 There's a Goldmine in the Sky
1.104 Old Pioneer
1.105 Home on the Range
1.106 If You Would Only Be Mine
1.107 Sierra Nevada
1.108 River of No Return
1.109 Lilies Grow High
1.110 Lonely Little Room
1.111 Montana
1.112 Somebody Bigger Than You ; I
1.113 Mystery of His Way
1.114 The Mystery of His Way
