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Cat. No. BCD 17644: BILLY JACK WILLS ~ CADILLAC IN MODEL 'A'. BEAR FAMILY BCD 17644. (IMPORT).

Cat. No. BCD 17644: BILLY JACK WILLS ~ CADILLAC IN MODEL 'A'. BEAR FAMILY BCD 17644. (IMPORT).

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AS HIS NAME SUGGESTS, BILLY JACK WILLS HAD AN ASSOCIATION WITH THE FAMOUS BOB WILLS. IN FACT, HE WAS BOB WILLS YOUNGER BROTHER BY 20 YEARS AND THE YOUNGEST SIBLING OF “UNCLE JOHN” TOMPKINS WILLS AND EMMALINE FOLEY WILLS “AUNT EMMA”. BILLY JACK’S FATHER AND GRANDFATHER, WILLIAM THOMAS WILLS, WERE MASTER FIDDLERS WITH ALMOST LEGENDARY STATUS AMONGST THEIR PEERS. WITH ALL THE MUSIC IN THE FAMILY IT WAS NATURAL THAT BILLY JACK WOULD ALSO TAKE UP MUSIC AS HIS CAREER. AS SOON AS BILLY JACK COULD HOLD AND FRET A GUITAR, HE ACCOMPANIED HIS FATHER’S FIDDLING, JUST LIKE HIS ELDER BROTHER, BOB WILLS, HAD DONE YEARS BEFORE. DESPITE THE TRADITION, BILLY JACK DID NOT PICK UP FIDDLING BUT INSTEAD TOOK UP WHAT WAS REFERRED TO AS RHYTHM INSTRUMENTS, DRUMS AND BASS FIDDLE. AFTER WW11, BILLY JACK JOINED BOB WILLS' BAND AS A BASS PLAYER AND MADE HIS RECORDING DEBUT AS A PLAYBOY ON OCTOBER 3, 1945. THE SESSION PRODUCED BOB’S FOURTH NUMBER ONE HIT, “WHITE CROSS ON OKINAWA”. THE STORY OF BILLY JACK’S CAREER IS FAR TO VAST TO TELL HERE, HOWEVER, IT IS SUFFICE TO SAY THAT BILLY JACK AND PLAYBOY ELECTRIC MANDOLINIST, TINY MOORE BECAME GOOD FRIENDS AND LATER FORMED THEIR OWN WESTERN SWING OUTFIT. BILLY JACK’S COMBO WAS A LITTLE REMOVED FROM THE STYLE OF THE PLAYBOYS AND LEANED MORE TOWARDS WHAT WE NOW KNOW AS ROCKABILLY, WHICH CAN BE HEARD IN THE SONGS ON THIS CD. SUPERB MIXTURE OF WESTERN SWING AND ROCKABILLY *****

TRACK LISTING: Kentucky Means Paradise / There’s Good Rockin’ Tonight / Crazy Man Crazy / Cadillac In Model ‘A’ / Out Of Gas / Hey Lula (Hey Lu-La) / Air Mail Special / For You My Love / All She Wants To Do Is Rock / Kissin’ Bug Boogie / Roped And Tied / C-Jam Blues / Sweet Georgia Brown / Water Baby Boogie / I Don’t Know / Sugar Blues / Bottle Baby Boogie / Milk Cow Blues / Jelly Roll Blues / Troubles (Those Lonesome Kind) / Woodchopper’s Ball / Rock-A-Bye Baby Blues / She’s A Quarter Horse Type (Of A Gal) / Lonesome Hearted Blues / The Dipsy Doodle / Tobacco Chewing Boogie / Mr. Cotton Picker / Hey, Mr. Mailman / Teardrops From My Eyes / Cadillac In Model ‘A’ (MGM) / My Shoes Keep Walkin’ Back To You.

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