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western swing

Last updated: Wed Oct 22 2025 11:59:32 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)

Description

Western swing blends the fiddles and steel guitars of country music with the big band jazz arrangements and swing rhythms of the 1930s-40s, creating an upbeat dance music born in Texas honky-tonks. The style features improvisational solos, syncopated rhythms, and a mix of traditional folk instruments alongside horns and drums. It captures the spirit of cowboys meeting city sophistication, balancing rural roots with urbane musical complexity.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
3		1940-11	Hank Penny and His Radio Cowboys	King Of Western Swing Volume One	country western swing
4		1941	Ted Daffan's Texans	Kings Of Western Swing, Vol. 2
94		1947-05	Tex Williams	Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!	country western swing
78		1954	Hank Penny	Crazy Rhythm	country western swing
49		1955	Hank Penny	Hollywood Western Swing 1944-1947	western swing
89		1956-02-04	Ray Price	Greatest Hits	country honky tonk texas western swing	texas # 52 honky tonk # 70
60		1961-09	Hank Thompson	At The Golden Nugget	country honky tonk traditional country western swing	traditional country # 35
14		1961-10-30	Hank Thompson	Hank Thompson At The Golden Nugget	country honky tonk western swing
46		1962	Ray Price	Ray Price Sings Heart Songs	country honky tonk texas western swing
67		1965	Ray Price	Ray Price - 16 Biggest Hits	country honky tonk texas western swing	honky tonk # 15
41		1965	Ray Price	Cherokee Cowboy	classic country country honky tonk texas western swing
34		1966	Johnny Bond	Divorce me C.O.D.	classic country country male vocalists western swing
85		1967	Ray Price	Ray Price's Greatest Hits	country honky tonk texas western swing	texas # 38 honky tonk # 57
19		1967	Hank Thompson	The Best Of Hank Thompson 1966-1979	country honky tonk western swing
54		1967-11	Ray Price	Touch My Heart	classic country country honky tonk texas western swing
86		1968	Ray Price	American Originals	country honky tonk texas western swing	texas # 44 honky tonk # 60
27		1968	Hank Thompson	On Tap, In The Can, Or In The Bottle
47		1969	Hank Thompson	Smoky the Bar	country honky tonk western swing
57		1974	Hank Thompson	Hank!	country honky tonk traditional country western swing	traditional country # 33
12		1975	Hank Thompson	And Fiends	country honky tonk western swing
97		1975	Leon Redbone	On the Track	blues male vocalists oldies smooth jazz western swing
15		1976	Ray Price	Ultimate Ray Price - 65 Country Favourites	country honky tonk texas western swing
22		1976	Hank Thompson	Country Collection	country honky tonk western swing
33		1976	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Greatest Hits	country western swing
40		1976	Ray Price	In a Honky Tonk Mood	classic country country honky tonk texas western swing
45		1976	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	King Of Western Swing	country western swing
48		1976	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Anthology 1935-1973	country western swing
81		1977	Ray Price	Burning Memories	classic country country honky tonk texas western swing	texas # 20 honky tonk # 46
59		1978	Hank Thompson	Dance Ranch	honky tonk traditional country western swing	traditional country # 34
13		1978	Asleep At The Wheel	Bismeaux Records Sampler Volume 1	country western swing
98		1980	Hank Thompson	A Six Pack To Go	country honky tonk western swing	honky tonk # 92
87		1982	Bob Wills	Columbia Historic Edition	western swing
11		1987	Asleep At The Wheel	Betsy	country western swing
84		1990	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Tiffany Transcriptions, Vol. 2		traditional country # 66
50		1991	Ray Price	The Essential Ray Price (1951-1962)	classic country country honky tonk texas western swing
55		1992	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	The Essential Bob Wills 1935-1947	country folk western swing
72		1993-11-02	Asleep At The Wheel	Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys	western swing
70		1994	The Kentucky Headhunters	Best of the Kentucky Headhunters: Still Pickin'	western swing
95		1995	Wayne Hancock	Thunderstorms and Neon Signs	country rockabilly western swing
61		1995-05-23	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming Guitars of Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	instrumental western swing
88		1996-04-30	BR5-49	Live From Robert's	honky tonk rockabilly western swing	honky tonk # 67
64		1996-09-17	BR5-49	BR5-49	honky tonk rockabilly	honky tonk # 89
93		1997	Ray Price	Super Hits	country honky tonk texas western swing	texas # 59 honky tonk # 79
8		1997	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	King Of Western Swing Volume One	country western swing
39		1997	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Swingin' On The Strings	western swing
56		1997	High Noon	Live In Texas And Japan	country honky tonk rock n roll rockabilly western swing
71		1999	Hot Club Of Cowtown	Tall Tales	western swing
90		1999-08-10	Asleep At The Wheel	Ride With Bob	western swing
69		2000	Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys	Night Tide	country rock n roll rockabilly swing western swing
74		2000-09-05	Hot Club Of Cowtown	Dev'lish Mary	swing western swing
79		2000-09-12	Asleep At The Wheel	Comin' Right at Ya/Texas Gold	texas western swing	texas # 16
66		2001	Wayne Hancock	A Town Blues	country honky tonk rockabilly western swing	honky tonk # 10
23		2001	The Stumbleweeds	Pickin' & Sinnin'	rockabilly western swing
76		2001-07-10	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Boot Heel Drag: The MGM Years	classic country country male vocalists oldies western swing
31		2002	Kowloon	Kowloon I	americana blues country deathrock punk rock rockabilly roots surf rock western western swing
38		2002	High Noon	What Are You Waiting For?	country honky tonk rock n roll rockabilly western swing
77		2002-09-17	Hot Club Of Cowtown	Ghost Train	western swing
6		2003	Milton Brown & His Brownies	King Of Western Swing Volume One	country western swing
75		2003	Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys	It'S Time	country rock n roll rockabilly swing western swing
96		2003	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Classic Western Swing	country western swing
82		2003-03-25	Buddy Emmons	Steel Guitar Jazz	hard bop jazz western swing
18		2003-08-19	Wayne Hancock	Wayne Hancock	country honky tonk western swing
91		2003-10-28	Hot Club Of Cowtown	Continental Stomp	western swing
62		2003-11	Asleep At The Wheel	Remembers the Alamo	western swing
43		2004	Pee Wee King	Pee Wee King's Biggest Hits/Country Barn Dance	country western swing
83		2004	BR5-49	Tangled in the Pines	western swing
92		2006-07-11	Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys	Turntable Matinee	country rock n roll rockabilly swing western swing
80		2006-11-14	Asleep At The Wheel	Reinventing The Wheel	country honky tonk western swing	honky tonk # 45
65		2006-11	Asleep At The Wheel	Santa Loves To Boogie	country honky tonk western swing	honky tonk # 9
68		2007	The Quebe Sisters Band	Timeless	western swing
37		2009	Those metal boys with their metal toys	Feel like stepping out	blues swing ukulele western swing	ukulele # 32
63		2009	Buster Blue	This Beard Grows for Freedom	americana folk western swing
73		2009-01-01	Red Stick Ramblers	My Suitcase Is Always Packed	country western swing
52		2009-02-03	Willie Nelson & Asleep At The Wheel	Willie & The Wheel	country western swing
29		2010	Little Kim & the Alley Apple 3	Little Kim & the Alley Apple 3	belgium jazz western swing
30		2010	Hot Club Of Cowtown	Hot Jazz Hot Swing Hot Club	country jazz swing western swing
44		2010	Little Kim & the Alley Apple 3	Riding the Rails	belgium country jazz western swing
42		2011-07-22	Common Grackle	The Great Repression	country indie rock western swing
25		2012	Miss Lauren Marie	Under the Stars, Over the Blues
51		2012-09-01	Little Kim & the Alley Apple 3	She'll keep the devil dancing on your heart	belgian belgium jazz swing western swing
99		2013-08-05	Pokey LaFarge	Pokey LaFarge	ragtime western swing	ragtime # 99
58		2014-02-11	The Quebe Sisters	Every Which-a-Way	western swing
32		2016	Sophia Johnson	One Year	country western swing
21		2017-04-28	Rockin' Bonnie Western Bound Combo	Loud and Proud!	honky tonk western swing
24		2018	The High and Wides	Lifted	folk western swing
10		2019	The Ragtime Nightmare	That Nasty Swing	jazz swing western swing
16		2022-05	Brennen Leigh & Asleep at the Wheel	Obsessed with the West	country western swing
26		2023	Various Artists	100 Western Swing Hits, Part 2
100			Speedy West	Guitar Spectacular	country traditional country western swing	traditional country # 97
1			Ray Condo and the Ricochets	High And Wild	rockabilly country western swing
2			Willie Nelson with Asleep at the Wheel	Willie and the Wheel	western swing
5			Frank Jacket & Los de Rio Seco	Wine on the Floor	country western swing
7			William Leadpistol	Sunset For Sunrise	alt-country americana indie rock rock rockabilly surf western swing
9			A Jay Wade and the Tennessee No. 09	Nashville Sessions	western swing
20			Larry W Jones	Real Country Lyrics	country honky tonk texas western western swing
28			Patsy Montana	Cowboy's Sweetheart	country western swing
35			The Irwell Street String Band	11:60pm (Feat. Hetty Kate & Sam Lemann)	americana jazz western swing
36			Lobait	Handshaking doubts	alternative western swing
53			LOST WEEKEND Western Swing band	Harbor Lights and Cowboy Blues	americana country western swing
17			Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies	Milton Brown And His Musical Brownies Selected Favorites, Vol. 2

Related genres

• country
• honky tonk
• texas
• rockabilly
• swing
• jazz
• classic country
• americana
• blues
• rock n roll