for Western Swing buffs: name that tune!

scott murray · Post by **scott murray** » 30 Dec 2007 11:13 am

what is the title of THIS SONG?

It sounds like an old Texas Playboys tune to me. It's an instrumental from the George Jones 'Live at Dancetown USA' album, with none other than Big E on steel.

Walter Stettner · Post by **Walter Stettner** » 30 Dec 2007 12:22 pm

Hi Scott,

Interesting, but I didn't find that tune on my GJ Live At Dancetown album. My album is not the original, but a 1985 re-release - with a lot of mistakes on the cover I never noticed so far. One of the instrumentals is named "Rio City Chimes" (sic!) but is in fact B.Bowman Hop.

Sorry, but I can't solve the mystery!

Kind Regards, Walter

Craig A Davidson · Post by **Craig A Davidson** » 30 Dec 2007 12:31 pm

I think it is a part of Devil's Dream. George intros the other song as Rose City Chimes. If you ask Buddy about that album he will sort of cringe. I heard they all had too much fun that night and not everyone was up to par musically.

Rusty Rogers · Post by **Rusty Rogers** » 30 Dec 2007 12:44 pm

I have that song on an album by Tom
Morell. They call it River Road
Two Step

Craig A Davidson · Post by **Craig A Davidson** » 30 Dec 2007 12:55 pm

Now we know

scott murray · Post by **scott murray** » 30 Dec 2007 2:09 pm

Thanks guys.
it does sound like Devil's Dream now that you mention it. I'd like to hear the Morrell tune.

this is the song that opens the second set, after George calls for "liquormission".

actually Buddy himself tells George they're gonna play "Rose City Chimes" before breaking into "B. Bowman Hop"... it's misprinted on the CD as "Rio City Chimes'.

other mistakes include "Hold It" (labeled "Untitled Instrumental") and "C Jam Blues" (called "Intermission Riff")... i like when George calls Rufus Thibodeaux "Rufus Two-by-Four".

i know Buddy isn't thrilled about this album, but he really plays some amazing stuff on both necks here. Jaw-dropping stuff as a matter of fact.

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 30 Dec 2007 2:29 pm

No, no, no. It's not "Devil's Dream". And it's not "River Road Two-Step"

It's an old Hank Thompson song, a hit from the late '50s (and again in the early '60s), called "Red Skin Gal". The fiddles are doing the melody...everyone else is just jammin' some patterns.

scott murray · Post by **scott murray** » 30 Dec 2007 4:31 pm

right you are Donny... thanks.
i just dug up my old Brazos Valley Boys LP with "Red Skin Gal"... that's it!

and it is very similar to "Devils Dream"!

Pete Finney · Post by **Pete Finney** » 30 Dec 2007 4:33 pm

Is the beginning cut off on the released version as it is on the online clip?

scott murray · Post by **scott murray** » 30 Dec 2007 4:41 pm

yes, it comes in late on the CD.
it's nice to finally have all the correct titles for this great album. i put it right up there w Merle in Muskogee, Buck at Carnegie, and Pride at Panther Hall.

Walter Stettner · Post by **Walter Stettner** » 31 Dec 2007 1:06 am

Looks like that the CD release has more tracks than the old LP album that I have. The track isn't on my album, maybe there's others missing, too...

Kind Regards, Walter

Blake Hawkins · Post by **Blake Hawkins** » 31 Dec 2007 9:54 am

Let's go back in time a bit more.

The original title was "Brown Skin Gal" written by
Bob Wills. Somewhere around here I have a 78 rpm recording of it.
Wills rerecorded it on "Bob Wills Plays The Greatest String Band Hits" First released as Kapp KS-3601 and
later as MCA-152. (which I have._

Fred Shannon · Post by **Fred Shannon** » 31 Dec 2007 2:25 pm

I'm with Blake. I think the original was Brown Skin Gal. The song is on Wills' Anthropology cuts, and if it's not so I think someone "swiped" sompin'. just my opine. But it also sounds like one of the "Your Turn" instrumentals that would appear at some of the old Western Swing Jammers when someone would say, "OK So and So, Your Turn" awaiting the next song we would impro and tear up.

phred