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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 10-JUN-1997

Track Listing

1. Loser's Blues
2. Feelin' Kinda Lucky
3. Let's Make It...Tonite!
4. If I Knew Now (What I Knew Then)
5. What's It to Ya?
6. Have You Ever Had the Feelin'
7. Greatest Story Ever Told
8. Strange Love
9. I'm Gonna Leave
10. Bugtussle Saturday Night
11. Three Years Blind
12. Have & Hold
13. Big '49
14. Backdoor Dan

Product Details

• Brand: BIG SANDY & HIS FLY-
• Released on: 1997-06-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Amazon.com
The back cover of this 1997 release jokingly calls the artist "America's Favorite Western Dance Combo," but after spinning this groovy platter, you realize that it may not be a joke after all. While the pulsating musical mix blends elements of swing, rockabilly, and the in-between country boogie, Big Sandy (Robert Williams) and his pure tenor croon with polish and flair. What truly makes this record worthwhile is the strong assortment of Sandy originals: "What's It To Ya?" could be right out of the Bob Wills book, "If I Knew Now" sounds remarkably like an early-century pop standard, and "Loser's Blues" calls to mind Merle Travis. The lone cover, Webb Pierce's "Have You Ever Had the Feelin'," is really a reworking of Wills's "Blue Bonnet Rag." All the while, super-fluid guitarist Ashley Kingman and sneaky steel player Lee Jeffriess (who contributes a jaunty instrumental) engage in friendly but formidable sparring. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews

Great suprise to find this album and group
I got "lucky" the other night on this recommended album. Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys are amazing. I have loved western swing music for a long time, but there have ben few artists who I think have really been able to pull it off well. Next to Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys he's as good as it gets and better yet, he's still alive and swingin' I hope to catch him live soon

Retro Bob Wills!
This is the third album of Big Sandy with his Fly Rite Boys. Nice retro western swing, songs are mostly originals. An exception is "Have You Ever Had the Feelin'" which is written by Webb Pierce and the king of western swing Bob Wills. A special guest on this record was Adrian Demain, who recorded with Lee Rocker, Swing Cats, Billy Bacon & Forbidden Pigs and Supersuckers!

NEW "Classic" western swing!
This is newly recorded western Swing, but it is bound to be a classic record. The arrangements swing hard, including steel guitar, Sandy's vocals are smooth with a touch of hillbilly boogie. The band falls between western swing, country boogie and rockabilly. An appealing and always swing danceable sound. Esellent music for fans of both swing and rockabilly.