Ever
wonder where cowboys like Jimmie Rodgers got their yodeling from? A town
name like Schulenberg, Texas, offers a clue. The truth is, they got it from
European immigrants, and even today if you travel through small towns in
America´s West, sometimes in the middle of Texas, you´ll find orderly rows
of houses with little gardens and clear German architecture, and authentic
Bavarian polka and waltz bands blaring oompah oompah into the night. German
journalist/musician Thomas Meinecke (who also fronts the spirited mutant
Bavarian post-punk outfit F.S.K.) has travelled around Texas, collecting
and recording German music that exists in America´s heartlands (his bandmate
Michaela took the excellent photographs), and the results shine on this
German import compilation, simply one of the most wonderful out-of-the-blue
records you´ll ever hear. The crowning moment is Adolph Hofner´s "Beautiful
America," a stomping waltz so full of optimism and patriotism it will bring
a tear to the eye of even the most jaded soul. This CD presents a smorgasbord
of toodling tubas, stomping oompahs and spirited yodeling: if you like the
Latin Playboys, Boozoo Chavis, Tom Waits of Dixieland jazz, it´s worth checking
out. Ja! Sehr gut! |
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Texas
Bohemia
CD-201 E/U |
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Shiner
Hobo Band
Adolph Hofner
Ray Krenek and his Orchestra Vrazels & Majeks & Bobby
Jones Czech Band
Jimmy Brosch and his Orchestra
The Henry Brosch Orchestra
Tuba Meisters
The Fayetteville Flash
Lee Roy Mattocha's Orchestra Vrazels' Polka Band
Henry Tannenberger & his Orchestra
The Red Ravens
Czech Band
Knutsch Band
Ellinger Combo
Leroy Rybak's Swinging Orchestra
Joe Patek and Orchestra
The Shiner Hobos
Leo Majek Orchestra |
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