Trackimage | Playbut | Trackname | Playbut | Trackname |
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2097774 | Play | Rolling Stone From Texas | 00:00 Tools | |
2097776 | Play | Big Ball's In Cowtown | 00:00 Tools | |
2097775 | Play | Cowpoke | 00:00 Tools | |
2097777 | Play | The John Deere Tractor Song | 00:00 Tools | |
2097781 | Play | Shotgun Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
2097790 | Play | Texas Top Hand | 00:00 Tools | |
2097798 | Play | Down at the Cantina | 00:00 Tools | |
2097789 | Play | Cowboy Ramsey | 00:00 Tools | |
2097780 | Play | Don't Worry (About Me) | 00:00 Tools | |
2097800 | Play | Hot Rod Mercury | 00:00 Tools | |
2097797 | Play | Mexicali Rose | 00:00 Tools | |
2097788 | Play | (The Party Don't Start) 'Til The Playboys Get Here | 00:00 Tools | |
2097859 | Play | Danny Boy | 00:00 Tools | |
2097795 | Play | Whispering Pines | 00:00 Tools | |
47886759 | Play | Love Song Of The Waterfall | 00:00 Tools | |
2097778 | Play | Three Days | 00:00 Tools | |
2097783 | Play | That's Why I'm Walking (Angel On My Mind) | 00:00 Tools | |
2097779 | Play | Truck Driving Man | 00:00 Tools | |
2097819 | Play | Whose Heart Are You Breaking Now | 00:00 Tools | |
2097830 | Play | Fool Such As I | 00:00 Tools | |
2097813 | Play | Signposts Of Life | 00:00 Tools | |
2097786 | Play | Truck Drivin' Man | 00:00 Tools | |
2097828 | Play | Tumbling Tumbleweeds | 00:00 Tools | |
2097833 | Play | Please Help me I'm Falling | 00:00 Tools | |
2097792 | Play | The John Deer Tractor Song | 00:00 Tools | |
2097796 | Play | Arkansas | 00:00 Tools | |
2097784 | Play | I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms) | 00:00 Tools | |
2097826 | Play | Divorce Me C.O.D. | 00:00 Tools | |
2097803 | Play | Big Blue Diamonds | 00:00 Tools | |
2097805 | Play | Weary Blues From Waiting | 00:00 Tools | |
2097839 | Play | I'll Hold You In My Heart (Til' I Can Hold You In My Arms) | 00:00 Tools | |
2097807 | Play | I Ain't Got Nobody | 00:00 Tools | |
2097838 | Play | I Really Don't Want To Know | 00:00 Tools | |
47886760 | Play | You Walk By | 00:00 Tools | |
2097840 | Play | Rose Marie | 00:00 Tools | |
2097809 | Play | Wine Me Up | 00:00 Tools | |
2097860 | Play | Legend in My Time | 00:00 Tools | |
2097787 | Play | Yodeling the Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
2097834 | Play | Califorina Blues (Blue Yodel #4) | 00:00 Tools | |
2097782 | Play | California Blues (Blue Yodel #9) | 00:00 Tools | |
2097851 | Play | Wind Me Up | 00:00 Tools | |
2097794 | Play | Hearts Made of Stone | 00:00 Tools | |
2097802 | Play | Sweet Thang & Cisco | 00:00 Tools | |
2097804 | Play | Cattle Call | 00:00 Tools | |
47886761 | Play | We Could, You and I | 00:00 Tools | |
2097876 | Play | Tumbling Tumbleweed | 00:00 Tools | |
2097843 | Play | Cherokee Maiden | 00:00 Tools | |
2097812 | Play | Yodel Polka | 00:00 Tools | |
47886762 | Play | Devil's Great-Grandson | 00:00 Tools | |
2097791 | Play | If You Don't Want to See Me Going (Turn and Look the Other Way) | 00:00 Tools | |
2097820 | Play | Hungry Eyes | 00:00 Tools | |
2097793 | Play | Rock-a-Billy Rage | 00:00 Tools | |
2097823 | Play | Ramon | 00:00 Tools | |
2097799 | Play | El Paso Cowboy | 00:00 Tools | |
47886765 | Play | Long Black Veil | 00:00 Tools | |
2097808 | Play | Country Gold | 00:00 Tools | |
2097827 | Play | The Devil'S Great Grandson | 00:00 Tools | |
2097785 | Play | Abilene | 00:00 Tools | |
2097824 | Play | Cinderella | 00:00 Tools | |
2097862 | Play | Fuzz Dixon | 00:00 Tools | |
2097878 | Play | An Eye For An Eye | 00:00 Tools | |
47886763 | Play | Hill Country Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
2097867 | Play | Big Ball In Cowtown | 00:00 Tools | |
2097836 | Play | When It's Springtime in the Rockies | 00:00 Tools | |
47886764 | Play | Bouquet Of Roses | 00:00 Tools | |
47886766 | Play | Marie | 00:00 Tools | |
47886767 | Play | Honky Tonk | 00:00 Tools | |
47886769 | Play | Steel in C | 00:00 Tools | |
47886768 | Play | You | 00:00 Tools | |
2097847 | Play | A String Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
2097825 | Play | Sweet Kind of Love | 00:00 Tools | |
2097801 | Play | All Around Cowboy | 00:00 Tools | |
47886772 | Play | Rocky Rhodes Stomp | 00:00 Tools | |
2097848 | Play | Steel Guitar Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
47886770 | Play | Don't Worry | 00:00 Tools | |
2097810 | Play | Buck And Merle | 00:00 Tools | |
47886775 | Play | Casting My Lasso | 00:00 Tools | |
47886771 | Play | Chime Bells | 00:00 Tools | |
2097841 | Play | Rockabilly Rage | 00:00 Tools | |
2097829 | Play | Miracle Water (ad) | 00:00 Tools | |
2097874 | Play | Rainbow on the Rio Colorado | 00:00 Tools | |
2097868 | Play | Plainsmen Theme & Intro (4/4/1964) | 00:00 Tools | |
2097883 | Play | Awaiting For A Train | 00:00 Tools | |
47886773 | Play | Tomorrow Is A Million Miles Away | 00:00 Tools | |
47886774 | Play | Down Yonder | 00:00 Tools | |
2097853 | Play | Lonesome 77203 | 00:00 Tools | |
2097854 | Play | One More Drink | 00:00 Tools | |
47886778 | Play | Castin' My Lasso | 00:00 Tools | |
47886779 | Play | Beggin' To You | 00:00 Tools | |
2097845 | Play | Two Stepping Lady | 00:00 Tools | |
2097846 | Play | She's Got Everything But Me | 00:00 Tools | |
47886776 | Play | Mexican Rose | 00:00 Tools | |
47886777 | Play | In My Dear Old Southern Home | 00:00 Tools | |
2097857 | Play | Midnight Coiffures (ad) | 00:00 Tools | |
47886780 | Play | Curtain In The Window | 00:00 Tools | |
2097871 | Play | Divorce Me COD | 00:00 Tools | |
47886782 | Play | Love Me | 00:00 Tools | |
47886781 | Play | Tennessee Saturday Night | 00:00 Tools | |
47886786 | Play | Bozo Burgers (ad) | 00:00 Tools | |
47886783 | Play | Sugar Moon | 00:00 Tools | |
47886789 | Play | Soldier's Joy & Raggedy Ann | 00:00 Tools | |
2097882 | Play | Theme (out) | 00:00 Tools | |
47886784 | Play | Take Off Time | 00:00 Tools | |
2097814 | Play | September In The Rain | 00:00 Tools | |
2097886 | Play | Take Me Back to Tulsa | 00:00 Tools | |
2097856 | Play | Fraulein | 00:00 Tools | |
2097832 | Play | Shove It Up Your Heart | 00:00 Tools | |
2097835 | Play | One Last Yodel | 00:00 Tools | |
2097817 | Play | The Schedule | 00:00 Tools | |
47886785 | Play | I'll Hold You in My Heart | 00:00 Tools | |
2097811 | Play | Time For Growing Up and a Time for Growing Old | 00:00 Tools | |
2097861 | Play | Allen Shell (ad) | 00:00 Tools | |
47886787 | Play | Side Men | 00:00 Tools | |
2097850 | Play | Austin Waltz | 00:00 Tools | |
2097842 | Play | Dixie Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
2097873 | Play | New Patches | 00:00 Tools | |
2097837 | Play | Daddy's Old Home Brew | 00:00 Tools | |
47886793 | Play | Theme (signoff) | 00:00 Tools | |
2097806 | Play | Den of Loneliness | 00:00 Tools | |
47886794 | Play | Miracle Water 2 (ad) | 00:00 Tools | |
2097821 | Play | Shelley's Winter Love | 00:00 Tools | |
2097858 | Play | Pappy Simmon's Privy | 00:00 Tools | |
2097885 | Play | Buck & Merle | 00:00 Tools | |
2097870 | Play | Folks Is Folks | 00:00 Tools | |
2097864 | Play | These Limestone Hills | 00:00 Tools | |
47886790 | Play | Polka Dot Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
47886791 | Play | Begging To You | 00:00 Tools | |
2097866 | Play | Here's to Country Music | 00:00 Tools | |
47886792 | Play | Oakie Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
2097884 | Play | Bozo Burgers 2 (ad) | 00:00 Tools | |
47886798 | Play | Are You Teasing Me | 00:00 Tools | |
2097855 | Play | My Ride With Jimmie | 00:00 Tools | |
47886795 | Play | I'm Leaving It Up To You | 00:00 Tools | |
2097875 | Play | Dream of the Singing Brakeman | 00:00 Tools | |
2097815 | Play | The Crucifixion | 00:00 Tools | |
47886797 | Play | Shelly's Winter Love | 00:00 Tools | |
47886799 | Play | Plainsmen Theme & Intro (8/15/1964) | 00:00 Tools | |
47886796 | Play | Paper Rosie | 00:00 Tools | |
2097822 | Play | Please Help Me, I'm Falling | 00:00 Tools | |
47886800 | Play | In My Dear Southern Home | 00:00 Tools | |
47886801 | Play | California Blues (Blue Yodel #4) | 00:00 Tools | |
2097818 | Play | Where Buck and Merle Still Play | 00:00 Tools | |
2097831 | Play | Daddy's Diary | 00:00 Tools | |
2097865 | Play | Rolling Stone From Texas, USA | 00:00 Tools | |
47886802 | Play | Rolling Stone From Texas (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
47886803 | Play | Hearts Of Stone | 00:00 Tools | |
2097863 | Play | Pushing Forty Hard | 00:00 Tools | |
2097889 | Play | I'll Hold You In My Heart (Until I Can Hold You In My Arms) | 00:00 Tools | |
47886804 | Play | (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I | 00:00 Tools | |
47886806 | Play | Red Skin Gal | 00:00 Tools | |
2097881 | Play | Weary Blues from Waitin' | 00:00 Tools | |
47886805 | Play | At The End Of A Long, Lonely Day | 00:00 Tools | |
86873964 | Play | Times Were Never Easy, excerpt | 00:00 Tools | |
2097872 | Play | At The End of A Long Lonely Day | 00:00 Tools | |
2097852 | Play | It Makes No Difference Now | 00:00 Tools |
Walser was born in Brownfield, Texas. A roots musician since he was 11 years old, Walser became an accomplished guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He started his first band, The Panhandle Playboys, at age 16, and shared bills with another aspiring Texas singer, Buddy Holly. As rock'n'roll began to skyrocket in popularity, Walser opted to stay in the Texas Panhandle, raise a family and work as a mechanic and auditor for the National Guard, rather than move to Nashville and pursue a recording career. As a result, he had little following outside Texas for the first part of his career. However, he never stopped playing and became widely known in Texas. From 1959-61 Walser had a group called The Texas Plainsmen and a weekly radio program. For the next three decades he was always in bands and played a heavy schedule. He wrote popular original songs such as "Rolling Stone from Texas", which received a four-star review in 1964 from Billboard magazine. As time went on, Walser also became known for maintaining a catalog of older, obscure country music and cowboy songs. He keep alive old 1940s and 1950s tunes by country music pioneers such as Bob Wills and Eddie Arnold, and made them his own in a style that blended elements of honky tonk and Western swing. He also was known for his extraordinary yodeling style in the tradition of Slim Whitman and Jimmie Rodgers. In 1984, the Guard transferred Walser to Austin, a center of the burgeoning alt-country music scene. He put together his Pure Texas Band and developed a strong local following. Walser opened for Johnny Cash in 1986. In 1990, Walser was "discovered" by musician and talent scout Tiny McFarland [2]. In 1994, aged 60, Walser retired from the Guard. Able to devote himself fully to music for the first time in his life, he was immediately signed by Watermelon Records, and released his first LP, Rolling Stone From Texas, produced by Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel. His extraordinary vocal abilities earned him the nickname "the Pavarotti of the Plains" by a reviewer for Playboy magazine. Because of his Austin base, he attracted fans from country music traditionalists, and alternative music and punk fans. His band later became the opening act for the Butthole Surfers. Don Walser was voted "Best Performing Country Band" at the Austin Music Awards, was voted top country band of the year by the Austin Chronicle in 1996, and received an Association for Independent Music "Indie" Award in 1997. He also received recognition in mainstream country, and played the Grand Ole Opry on October 30, 1999, and again in 2001. In 2000 he received a lifetime "Heritage" award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and he and the Pure Texas Band played at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He also received cameo roles in feature movies with honky-tonk settings, such as The Hi-Lo Country (1998), starring Woody Harrelson. In September, 2003, Don Walser retired from live performances due to health issues. Three years later, Walser died due to complications from diabetes on September 20, 2006, 6 days after his 72nd birthday. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.