(Гитара, Голос / Методическое пособие) Fred Sokolow (introd.) - Western Swing Guitar. 25 classic songs (Songbook) (Guitar Recorded Versions) [1999?, ENG, PDF]

Across the Allev from the Alamo Asleep at the Wheel
A Big Ball in Cowtown Asleep at the Wheel
The Blues Come Around Hank Williams
Bring It on Down to Mv House Asleep at the Wheel
CaionStomp
The Farr Brothers/Sons of the Pioneers
ChOO Choo Ch' Boogie Asleep at the Wheel
Corrine Corrina Bob Wills
Don't let Go Asleep at the Wheel
faded love Eldon Shamblin
fatBovRag Bob Wills
Hesitation Blues
Mihon Brown and His Musical Brownies
Hide Your face Spade Coolev
Honkv Tonkin' Hank Williams
MV Bucket's Got a Hole in It 'T Texas Tvler
MV Window Faces the South Bob Wills
New San Antonio Rose Bob Wills
Red Wing
Asleep at the Wheel
Right or Wrong
Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies
A Six Pack to Go Hank Thompson
Smoke, Smoke, Smoke [That Cigarette] Tex Williams
Stay a Little Longer Bob Wills
Steel GUitar Rag
Bob Wills, Spade Coolev
Won't You Ride in Mv Little Red Wagon HankPennv
Yearning
Asleep at the Wheel

A full western swing band is quite an aggregation: electric guitars, a steel guitar, a few fiddles, piano, bass, drums and a hom section. The repertoire includes fiddle hoedowns, big band tunes by Basie or Ellington, Tin Pan Alley hits, Bessie Smith or Jimmie Rodgers-style blues, contemporary country numbers with a swing feel, sentimental ballads from the '20s and boogie woogie. Western swing has always combined these elements, along with polkas, Nortefio (Tex-Mex), cowboy, Cajun and jazz music (even bebop). What a mixture! A good western swing band features flashy instrumentalists playing hot, ad-lib solos, one or two vocalists, "twin" and triple guitar or fiddle arrangements and a driving beat that keeps the swing dancers on their feet.
Western swing became popular in the '30s, but its roots were in Texas bands of the late '20s like the East Texas Serenaders and the Hi-Flyers. Advertised by their record companies as "Hot String Bands," these combos augmented the hillbilly repertory with blues, ragtime and Dixieland. The first such group to gamer a wide audience was the Light Crust Doughboys, who had a daily Fort Worth radio show sponsored by a flour company. The Doughboys' singer, Milton Brown, was influenced by Bing Crosby. Their fiddler, Bob Wills, had been performing in blackface at medicine shows, imitating Emmett Miller, who yodeled, did "jive talk" and was backed by a jazz band.
The Doughboys' sponsor wouldn't let the group perform outside the radio station, so Brown left the program in 1932 and formed his own group, the Musical Brownies. Wills and his singer, Tommy Duncan, who had replaced Brown, left the following year and started the Texas Playboys. (Duncan, chosen after Wills auditioned 67 singers, was to stay with the Playboys for fifteen years.) In the next few years, these two groups grew in size and popularity, and spawned a new genre of music that, a decade later, would be dubbed western swing.