Roots66: Music: Western Bands

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If you'd like to have your new Western CD reviewed, please send your CD to Roots66 at

Bill Yates Webmaster, Roots66.com 1911 Arlene Avenue Oxnard, CA 93036-2704	or	Erika Harding Roots Productions 60 South Anacapa Street Ventura, CA 93001
Please note that we review music in the categories listed in the links above. CDs submitted for review are not returnable and no guarantee is made that a CD will be reviewed.

Tommy Allsup-Tommy Allsup is the great guitar player and producer of Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys "For the Last Time" and also the new "Tribute To Bob Wills"
Brookl;yn Country - An all-purpose guide for folks who play and enjoy country music in the New York City area.
Bubba Net -Find out everything you wanted to know about being a Bubba...
T. J. Casey - Montana's Singing Cownboy! Exciting information on one of America's few original "western swing" cowboys! Read the Review!
Check out our band, CHICAS del CORO! Studio Deluxe, Hilde Marstrander, PO. Box 2045 Grünerløkka, 0505 Oslo, Norway. tlf. +47 920 32 282 / +47 22 35 75 00, gallery: http://www.studio-deluxe.com, e-mail: deluxe@world-online.no
City Moon - The best country band in Oklahoma.
Country Standard Time -CST covers both mainstream and artists "on the edge," featuring CD reviews, music news, editorials, and links to other country music sites on the Web. CST is also a print magazine.
Cowboy Joe's Radio Ranch - Paul Aaron "Cowboy Joe" is on his way back to the airwaves. The creator and DJ/personality of the unique, authentic Western music radio show is returning to radio. The show, in its previous run, aired for 12 years in the New York area over WKCR FM and WBAI, and much of that time nationally through National Public Radio's Extended Program Service. The show features authentic western swing, cowboy music and poetry with a touch of Cowboy Joe's "dry" sense of humor and a down-to-earth feel for the cowboy way of life. Cowboy Joe's Radio Ranch was so well thought of, it was recognized with the Western Heritage Wrangler Award (the equivalent of the Hollywood Oscar) from The National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center.
Cow Hear This - Cow Hear This is a Texas Music compilation featuring Pat Green, Eleven Hundred Springs, Kevin Fowler, Reckless Kelly, Cooder Graw, Jack Ingram, Asleep at the Wheel, Rodney Crowell, Jason Boland and the Stragglers, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Bruce Robison, Roger Creager and Kevin Welch. It releases May 7th!
King's Highway - The Bakersfield sound from California.
Lou Ford
Forever Goldrush
Deanna Laine
Tom Lambert/Real Country
High Noon -Western /rockabilly band out of Austin, Texas.
Larry Fiel and the Ranch Dance Fiddle Band - Lanny Fiel & the Ranch Dance Fiddle Band perform historic music from the days of cowboy and ranch dances in the Texas Panhandle and the Llano Estacado. Playing traditional fiddle tunes of two-steps, waltzes, schottisches, polkas, and specialty numbers, the band recreates music that has been played for dances since the arrival of the first settlers on the Texas Plains.
The Lost Canyon Rangers are a WESTERN/COWBOY singing group. We have performed at The Lone Pine Film Festival, The Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, The William S. Hart Museum, The Anahiem Pond, and we will be performing at the Santa Clarita Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival on March 28, 2003. We will also be playing at many Gun Shows in the Southern California area during 2003.
Willie Heath Neal - Willie Heath Neal has been described as a "country throwback and a welcome alternative to pop country". Check it out!
Southland Records - We specialize in Western Swing recorded projects featuring Leon Rausch, the lead vocalist for the Bob Wills Texas Playboy Band.
Highway 13
The Lucky Stars -Traditional Western Swing band from Hollywood, CA.
Leon Rausch -Leon Rausch is the great vocalist that performed with Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys. This is his official homepage with updates for fan club, tour dates, and recorded projects both new and previous.
Lynn Logan and the Leading Edge Band - Nominated for Rising Star Award, Female Vocalist of the Year and Song of the Year 2005, by The Academy of Western Artists
The Pistol River Band - Check out the original concept album, "The Western ballad Opera". A compact drama of greed, lies and deceit too complex to fit into just one song. The saga is an authentic western opera, uniquely absorbing and moving, and like the story itself is tied together with a musical arrangement rustically guiding the listener through the dramatic progression of each chapter. Read the Review!
The Players
The Prescott Playboys - Fred Spears and The Prescott Playboys is not your avereage Country & Western Swing band. We are deeply rooted in "honky tonk" and western swing type music. This type of music filled dance halls and honky tonk barsacross the nation duing the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
Roots Music Report
350 N Guadalupe Suite 140
San Marcos Texas 78666
877-532-2225
The Shiners - "The debut album by The Shiners is ten tracks of country- and mountain-influenced southern rock. Moonshine swillin' acoustic music that will alternately move and rock you. Banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and stand-up bass, used to tell stories about the Southland." - -Matt Snow, Punchline Magazine
The Sidecars are a seven-piece outfit out of Cincinnati, Ohio, playing Western Swing, swing, and hot music. The Sidecars are just like good pork sausage: pure by-product. We start with a Texas two-beat feel, toss in some New Orleans meat, a jar of Jive bologna, two handfuls of Kentucky bluegrass, and finish off with hot jazz licks and humor. It's a campfire concoction that's entertained Cincinnati for almost two years. Come to our website; look around! We've got a new CD out ("Stay All Night").
The Strange Things - A fairly new Alt Country music band from Brisbane, Australia. We are about to self release our second album and have some songs to download from our website.
Swamp Pop
Vot Der Dumboozle - Visit Jim Lowe's site and join him in his exploration of western swing, r&b revues, 30's harmony groups, Carl Barks, the Katzenjammer Kids, and lots lots more!
West Texas Country - The on-line music and entertainment site for West Texas.
White Trash Cafe - Didn't know exactly where to put this link, but it's a gotta go someplace! Hungry? visit the White Trash Cafe...
Dwight Whitley - Country music fans around the world are delighted with Dwight's rare and unique vocal talent. He sings with such warmth and depth because he is singing to his brothers as well as to millions of fans. Song and music are as natural to him as the songbirds that sing outside his home in the hills of Eastern Kentucky.
Hank Williams -The late great...
The Sounds of Texas Music Series A unique concert series in Conroe, TX, that combines exclusive artist pairings with the perfect acoustics of an historic theatre that hosts plays and musicals that are performed unmiked, but easily heard in the last row of the balcony. The crowds at the shows in this series are only there to hear the music. There is no smoking and no alcohol is served in the theatre. If you are serious about music and the artists the series features, this is where you want to see them perform.

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Last updated 2/23/05
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