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Album: This is Tommy Duncan- Part I of a Trilogy This CD is Part I of Billy Mata and The Texas Tradition's three part tribute to Billy's vocal idol, Tommy Duncan. This new CD is an awesome combination of 16 songs that Tommy sang with Bob Wills as well as a Larry Scott introduction and interlude, a Glynn Duncan epilogue and both an Herb Remington and Johnny Gimble interview. The album includes the same personnel that do all of their live gigs plus many guests on different cuts such as Herb and Johnny, both former Bob Wills Texas Playboys and former Asleep at the Wheel world renown piano legend, Floyd Domino. Also heard on some cuts are the Jim Cullum Jazz Band, the Texas Tradition horn section, the trumpet of Penny Compton and Vickie Gillespie's harmony vocal on Closed for Repairs. The music opens with Basin Street Blues and then Black Rider from early Tommy Duncan. Also included are such Wills favorites as San Antonio Rose, A Maiden's Prayer, New Spanish Two Step and Tommy's dad's Stay All Night. Also included is I Found a Dream, a gem that Columbia left unissued for too many years. There are also lots of super Wills and Duncan favorites such as Johnny Bond's great composition of Ten Years, which Leon Huff warbled on the original Columbia recording while Tommy was in the service and the old pop standard Dinah. Billy also sings three of Fred Rose's great compositions that Bob and Tommy scored with, Bluer than Blue, Deep Water and Sweet Kind of Love. Billy then reprises two from the Tiny Moore years of the Texas Playboys, Misery and Cotton Patch Blues. The remaining gem Ride On! is from Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan's days in Western movies. Billy handles all of the vocals with long time members of Billy's Texas Tradition, Roger Edgington playing steel, Richard Helsley- fiddle and drummer Rocco Fortunato. The bassist is Bill Holt and David Waters plays some very exciting lead guitar as well as acoustic guitar. This CD can be obtained from www.billymata.com using Paypal or phone or mail orders to: Keepin' The Texas Tradition Music, L.L.C., PO Box 226, Lytle, TX 78052 or 210-692-5959. Price is $15.00 plus $2.95 shipping/handling in USA. ($17.95) Mike Gross, WVOF-FM, Fairfield, CT |