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From: Buddy McPeters
Date: December 16, 2002
Fiddlinman, Welcome to our little discussion group, great to have you aboard! Is there an alternate of the 1935 'Sittin' On Top Of The World'? I don't recall it and I haven't found it listed in any of the discographies. I know one CD I have lists several songs as alternates erroneously, when in fact they are not.
Somewhere I have a tape of a later studio recording of 'Liberty' from the late '40's with Junior Barnard on guitar. So far I haven't been able to find out anything about it. From the way it sounds it's probably a test pressing from a sound check in the studio. I mentioned it to the people at Bear Family and they didn't seem interested since they had already issued the first Volume of the '35-'47 Columbia recordings. It's not an air shot from a radio show and it isn't from the Tiffany Transcriptions.
My big objection to the box set is the book. Many great photos and graphics but the text is about the worst thing in print on Bob Wills I have seen! Lots of wrong information with the author's slanted opinions about Bob's influences and some of the musicians he had. Bear could have had a great Wills researcher like Kevin Coffey to write it instead of the other person whose name I will not mention. So far all of the CD's work fine and the DVD of Take Me Back To Oklahoma is superb. It's a nice box set if you ignore the text of the book.