Petr,

ELDEN SCHAMBLIN was Bob Wills guitar player. I'm sad to hear that he passed away. His accent was always on the bass strings -- much more than the treble strings. It was chorded melody rhythm if I saw him right. One of my favorite songs I ever heard him do was "Back Home Again In Indiana". He did it long after Bob Wills was gone----in the mid-70s I think -- at a festival where I was happy to make a tape of it from the P.A. system speaker I was sitting next to.

Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw and the Dorseys did urban swing. Out West, still urban but with rural (country) nostalgic tendencies if not actually rural in the strictest sense. Wills and the Lightcrust Doughboys (and others like Milton Brown and a slew of Oklahoma and Texas bands) made Country Swing out of the old-timey stringband music and "the Charlies"---POOLE and CHRISTIAN. As always there were influences galore that were picked up like magnets pulling iron or sponges suckin' water (or whatever).

Great music. Could be I'm mellowing in my old age. But I still know what I like best---and that's roots music that I tend to recognize as closer to the real thing----traditional folk music.

This is just one fellows few observations. I don't mean to be pushy. That's just how stuff looks to me from here.

Art Thieme