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Wolf Tracks by Tom Morrell and the Time-warp Top Hands
Tom Morrell and the Time-Warp Top hands
Wolf Tracks by Tom Morrell and the Time-warp Top Hands
Genres: Country, Pop
 
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With all due respect to Asleep at the Wheel and Ace in the Hole, Tom Morrell and the Time-Warp Top Hands are the best Western swing band in Texas. Wolf Tracks is a collection of instrumentals taken from Morrell's 10-volume...  more »

     
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All Artists: Tom Morrell and the Time-Warp Top hands
Title: Wolf Tracks by Tom Morrell and the Time-warp Top Hands
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Label: Shanachie
Original Release Date: 11/16/1999
Release Date: 11/16/1999
Genres: Country, Pop
Style: Cowboy
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 016351604422

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With all due respect to Asleep at the Wheel and Ace in the Hole, Tom Morrell and the Time-Warp Top Hands are the best Western swing band in Texas. Wolf Tracks is a collection of instrumentals taken from Morrell's 10-volume series How the West Was Swung, which has sought to reclaim Western swing as "cowboy jazz" rather than country music, at least by Nashville's definition of the term. Morrell--who toured with Tex Williams, Ray Price, and the Texas Playboys back in the day--favors an old-fashioned steel guitar with no pedals on most tracks. He's joined here by lead guitarists Rich O'Brien and Clint Strong, who plays all those nifty jazz scales that annoyed his ex-boss Merle Haggard on the standard "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" and Morrell's original "Pterodactyl Ptales." In the tradition of Bob Wills, several tracks feature New Orleans-style trumpet, trombone, and clarinet. But Morrell takes Wills one step further by integrating the vibraphone into his sound on more than half the tracks. --Rick Mitchell

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Great Album!
TMakem | Clayton, NC United States | 01/29/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is my first introduction to Morrell, and it was well worth the purchase. Makes me want to pick up the albums these were picked from. I do have to say that at least with my copy of this album, the back cover says explicitly that this is a collection from the *How the West Was Swung* series. I am not sure which copy a previous reviewer here was refering to."