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Recent addition to albums now streaming: Instrumental Western Swing Album TEXAS BANDSTAND FAVORITES by Herb Steiner

Tunes: All of Me / When I Fall in Love / Westphalia Waltz / Liberty Drive / My Bluest Day / Take the “A” Train / A Thing Called Sadness / September in the Rain / Panhandle Rag / Deep Water.

The personnel is: HERB STEINER, pedal steel guitar; JOHNNY CASE, piano; LEON CHAMBERS, lead guitar (tracks 1-6); JUNIOR KNIGHT, lead guitar (tracks 7-10); DONNY McDUFF, rhythm guitar; MAC McRAE, acoustic bass; PAUL POLISH, drums. Recorded in 1995 at Garland Recording Studio in Garland, Texas.

Thanks to 45ripping78 for providing this full album on YouTube.

DESCRIPTIVE NOTES has new additions: See Entry No. 3 : MEMENTO SUITE, issued in 2022; Entry No. 4: Johnny Case and his Texas Swingtet featuring Billy Briggs, issued in 2016; Entry No. 5: LAST NITES by Johnny Case (solo piano recorded live at Sardines Ristorante Italiano). This was recorded September 19, 2001 - one week and one day after the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center. My notes, dated November 2001, address the circumstances which led me to make this record and how an unsavory business alliance brought about the demise of the original Sardines.

TWO SIDE-LONG PERFORMANCES BY JOHN & JERRY CASE NOW STREAMING ONLINE

Side A of the LP “CONTRASTS IN JAZZ” is the up-tempo original “Fire” by John Case, with extended soloing by both Case brothers and solid support from Charles Scott, acoustic bass and Wayland Smajstrla, drums. This cut is from June 1970, the first studio jazz session by John & Jerry Case. Side B of the same LP is a 1974 quintet performance of another John Case original, “Full Moon” featuring John & Jerry Case with Maurice Anderson, pedal steel guitar, Jim Perkins, electric bass; Bill Miner, drums. Many thanks to the YouTube provider: 45ripping78 who has also posted other Priority albums.

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Johnny Case