Western Swing: January 2008 Archives

Mark Rubin: Review of Texas-Czech, Bohemian, & Moravian Bands: Historic Recordings 1929-1959

"Texas music has always been music from someplace else that came here and got weird, be it German polkas and Mexican corridos turning into conjunto or Appalachian fiddle tunes and Tin Pan Alley rags mutating into western swing, just the same way as every one from Texas was originally from someplace else and came here and got weird. This latest CD is as fine example of Texas music as is available and belongs in any well rounded record collection."

Old Blue Bus: I Can't Get Enough of That Ah-Ha

Some old 78s of western swing, including Johnny Hicks and his Troubadours, "I Can't Get Enough of That Ah-Ha."