Early 1940s video of Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys.
Appears to be Leon McAuliffe on steel & perhaps Tagg Lambert doing the singing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Y2WI1YmEU
"I HEAR YA TALKIN'"---BOB WILLS & The Texas P
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That's Leon.
It's from "Wyoming Hurricane", 1944.
Luke Wills on bass
Junior Barnard, guitar
Jesse Ashlock, fiddle
Cotton Thompson, fiddle and vocal
Leon McAuliffe, steel
I always thought Cotton was the best vocalist Wills ever had. He sang the definitive version of "Milk Cow Blues" with Johnnie Lee Wills band.
Here's Cotton and his own band, from 1948, with J.L. Jenkins on steel:
It's from "Wyoming Hurricane", 1944.
Luke Wills on bass
Junior Barnard, guitar
Jesse Ashlock, fiddle
Cotton Thompson, fiddle and vocal
Leon McAuliffe, steel
I always thought Cotton was the best vocalist Wills ever had. He sang the definitive version of "Milk Cow Blues" with Johnnie Lee Wills band.
Here's Cotton and his own band, from 1948, with J.L. Jenkins on steel:
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