Table of Contents

Introduction
Artist Index
Session Chronology
Musician Index
Title Index

Promotional Information

Traces the development of a significant and underexamined American musical genre, offering a comprehensive listing of recordings by both groups and individuals.

About the Author

CARY GINELL, a music historian and radio broadcaster, is the owner of Sound Thinking Music Research, where he works as a music consultant for the entertainment industry. He is also the co-owner of the Origin Jazz Library record label, and has conducted oral histories with many seminal musicians in country music and jazz. He is the author of The Decca Hillbilly Discography, 1927-1945 (Greenwood, 1989) and Milton Brown and the Founding of Western Swing (1994).

KEVIN COFFEY is a researcher and historian whose work concentrates on American music in the southwest, with a particular emphasis on western swing. His work has appeared in The Journal of Country Music, and he is a contributing author to The Encyclopedia of Country Music.

Reviews

?Texas swing is alive and well today and this volume effectively covers the early years. It is an excellent source for those interested in the growth and development of the genre.?-American Reference Books Annual

?This fine volume is everything one would expect from such detailed chroniclers.?-Dirty Linen

?This work's a must for any researcher into jazz or country music of the period.?-VJM's Jazz and Blues Mart

"This fine volume is everything one would expect from such detailed chroniclers."-Dirty Linen

"This work's a must for any researcher into jazz or country music of the period."-VJM's Jazz and Blues Mart

"Texas swing is alive and well today and this volume effectively covers the early years. It is an excellent source for those interested in the growth and development of the genre."-American Reference Books Annual