Don Walser

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Rolling Stone From Texas 00:00 Tools
Big Ball's In Cowtown 00:00 Tools
Cowpoke 00:00 Tools
The John Deere Tractor Song 00:00 Tools
Shotgun Boogie 00:00 Tools
Texas Top Hand 00:00 Tools
Down at the Cantina 00:00 Tools
Cowboy Ramsey 00:00 Tools
Don't Worry (About Me) 00:00 Tools
Hot Rod Mercury 00:00 Tools
Mexicali Rose 00:00 Tools
(The Party Don't Start) 'Til The Playboys Get Here 00:00 Tools
Danny Boy 00:00 Tools
Whispering Pines 00:00 Tools
Love Song Of The Waterfall 00:00 Tools
Three Days 00:00 Tools
That's Why I'm Walking (Angel On My Mind) 00:00 Tools
Truck Driving Man 00:00 Tools
Whose Heart Are You Breaking Now 00:00 Tools
Fool Such As I 00:00 Tools
Signposts Of Life 00:00 Tools
Truck Drivin' Man 00:00 Tools
Tumbling Tumbleweeds 00:00 Tools
Please Help me I'm Falling 00:00 Tools
The John Deer Tractor Song 00:00 Tools
Arkansas 00:00 Tools
I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms) 00:00 Tools
Divorce Me C.O.D. 00:00 Tools
Big Blue Diamonds 00:00 Tools
Weary Blues From Waiting 00:00 Tools
I'll Hold You In My Heart (Til' I Can Hold You In My Arms) 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Got Nobody 00:00 Tools
I Really Don't Want To Know 00:00 Tools
You Walk By 00:00 Tools
Rose Marie 00:00 Tools
Wine Me Up 00:00 Tools
Legend in My Time 00:00 Tools
Yodeling the Blues 00:00 Tools
Califorina Blues (Blue Yodel #4) 00:00 Tools
California Blues (Blue Yodel #9) 00:00 Tools
Wind Me Up 00:00 Tools
Hearts Made of Stone 00:00 Tools
Sweet Thang & Cisco 00:00 Tools
Cattle Call 00:00 Tools
We Could, You and I 00:00 Tools
Tumbling Tumbleweed 00:00 Tools
Cherokee Maiden 00:00 Tools
Yodel Polka 00:00 Tools
Devil's Great-Grandson 00:00 Tools
If You Don't Want to See Me Going (Turn and Look the Other Way) 00:00 Tools
Hungry Eyes 00:00 Tools
Rock-a-Billy Rage 00:00 Tools
Ramon 00:00 Tools
El Paso Cowboy 00:00 Tools
Long Black Veil 00:00 Tools
Country Gold 00:00 Tools
The Devil'S Great Grandson 00:00 Tools
Abilene 00:00 Tools
Cinderella 00:00 Tools
Fuzz Dixon 00:00 Tools
An Eye For An Eye 00:00 Tools
Hill Country Waltz 00:00 Tools
Big Ball In Cowtown 00:00 Tools
When It's Springtime in the Rockies 00:00 Tools
Bouquet Of Roses 00:00 Tools
Marie 00:00 Tools
Honky Tonk 00:00 Tools
Steel in C 00:00 Tools
You 00:00 Tools
A String Boogie 00:00 Tools
Sweet Kind of Love 00:00 Tools
All Around Cowboy 00:00 Tools
Rocky Rhodes Stomp 00:00 Tools
Steel Guitar Waltz 00:00 Tools
Don't Worry 00:00 Tools
Buck And Merle 00:00 Tools
Casting My Lasso 00:00 Tools
Chime Bells 00:00 Tools
Rockabilly Rage 00:00 Tools
Miracle Water (ad) 00:00 Tools
Rainbow on the Rio Colorado 00:00 Tools
Plainsmen Theme & Intro (4/4/1964) 00:00 Tools
Awaiting For A Train 00:00 Tools
Tomorrow Is A Million Miles Away 00:00 Tools
Down Yonder 00:00 Tools
Lonesome 77203 00:00 Tools
One More Drink 00:00 Tools
Castin' My Lasso 00:00 Tools
Beggin' To You 00:00 Tools
Two Stepping Lady 00:00 Tools
She's Got Everything But Me 00:00 Tools
Mexican Rose 00:00 Tools
In My Dear Old Southern Home 00:00 Tools
Midnight Coiffures (ad) 00:00 Tools
Curtain In The Window 00:00 Tools
Divorce Me COD 00:00 Tools
Love Me 00:00 Tools
Tennessee Saturday Night 00:00 Tools
Bozo Burgers (ad) 00:00 Tools
Sugar Moon 00:00 Tools
Soldier's Joy & Raggedy Ann 00:00 Tools
Theme (out) 00:00 Tools
Take Off Time 00:00 Tools
September In The Rain 00:00 Tools
Take Me Back to Tulsa 00:00 Tools
Fraulein 00:00 Tools
Shove It Up Your Heart 00:00 Tools
One Last Yodel 00:00 Tools
The Schedule 00:00 Tools
I'll Hold You in My Heart 00:00 Tools
Time For Growing Up and a Time for Growing Old 00:00 Tools
Allen Shell (ad) 00:00 Tools
Side Men 00:00 Tools
Austin Waltz 00:00 Tools
Dixie Blues 00:00 Tools
New Patches 00:00 Tools
Daddy's Old Home Brew 00:00 Tools
Theme (signoff) 00:00 Tools
Den of Loneliness 00:00 Tools
Miracle Water 2 (ad) 00:00 Tools
Shelley's Winter Love 00:00 Tools
Pappy Simmon's Privy 00:00 Tools
Buck & Merle 00:00 Tools
Folks Is Folks 00:00 Tools
These Limestone Hills 00:00 Tools
Polka Dot Blues 00:00 Tools
Begging To You 00:00 Tools
Here's to Country Music 00:00 Tools
Oakie Boogie 00:00 Tools
Bozo Burgers 2 (ad) 00:00 Tools
Are You Teasing Me 00:00 Tools
My Ride With Jimmie 00:00 Tools
I'm Leaving It Up To You 00:00 Tools
Dream of the Singing Brakeman 00:00 Tools
The Crucifixion 00:00 Tools
Shelly's Winter Love 00:00 Tools
Plainsmen Theme & Intro (8/15/1964) 00:00 Tools
Paper Rosie 00:00 Tools
Please Help Me, I'm Falling 00:00 Tools
In My Dear Southern Home 00:00 Tools
California Blues (Blue Yodel #4) 00:00 Tools
Where Buck and Merle Still Play 00:00 Tools
Daddy's Diary 00:00 Tools
Rolling Stone From Texas, USA 00:00 Tools
Rolling Stone From Texas (Live) 00:00 Tools
Hearts Of Stone 00:00 Tools
Pushing Forty Hard 00:00 Tools
I'll Hold You In My Heart (Until I Can Hold You In My Arms) 00:00 Tools
(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I 00:00 Tools
Red Skin Gal 00:00 Tools
Weary Blues from Waitin' 00:00 Tools
At The End Of A Long, Lonely Day 00:00 Tools
Times Were Never Easy, excerpt 00:00 Tools
At The End of A Long Lonely Day 00:00 Tools
It Makes No Difference Now 00:00 Tools
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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.