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Kelli Grant, the Queen of Swing & The Former Texas Playboys

Kelli Grant > Western Swing

This is a first for the Queen of Swing™ Kelli Grant & for the Texas Playboys. It's not really a big deal but then again it is. The fact is, NO WOMAN had ever fronted the Texas Playboys since their inception in 1935. Well, it's very simple. Bob Wills owned the band and he fronted it. When he died Betty Wills, his widow put the guys out on the road with Leon McAuliffe fronting the band. But the name was owned by Carl Johnson, owner of the Reo Palm Isle in Longview, Tx. So the name was dormant for a few years before Carl gave the name to Texas Playboy Casey Dickens with a signed document. Casey gave it to Leon Rausch and Tommy Allsup who awarded the name to Jason Roberts.
To this day, the Only woman to ever front the TEXAS PLAYBOYS is the Kelli Grant the Queen of Swing™ and here's the video that proves it.

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      © (821137722333) (format: DVD-R)

With a single lone fiddle the show kicks off, as it always did with Texas Playboy, Curly Lewis playing "Faded Love" to honor their boss the late great King of Western Swing, Mr. Bob Wills
Under the Musical Direction of  Kelli Grant the Queen of Swing™.  NO WOMAN had ever fronted the Texas Playboys since their inception in 1935. Filling in for Texas Playboy, Johnny Patterson, creator of the Musical Production, FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEAR Kelli Grant the Queen of Swing™ takes the reins and becomes a legend that no other woman will ever be able to capitalize on.

SONGLIST WITH SOUND BITE:

1. Bob Wills history,  Texas Playboy Theme,
   San Antonio  Rose

2. Welcoming the audience Kelli introduces herself

3.  L.J. Pritchett, Deep Water

4. Casey Dickens - South

5. Cindy Walker, Kelli Grant Western Hall of Fame
   Swing Like That CD - Sugar Moon

6. Luke & Bob's Billfold - Faded Love

7. Luke & the Mannequin - Take Me Back to Tulsa

8. Carl Vaughan - Time Changes Everything

9. Kelli in the Hospital - Right or Wrong

10. Bobbie Boatright Curly Lewis - Fiddle Breakdown

11. Milk Cow Blues Intro - MilkCow Blues

12. Carl Vaughan The Kind of Love I Can't Forget

13. Introduce Texas Playboy Johnny Patterson

14. Maiden's Prayer

15. 1935 Swing

16. Take the A-Train

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 Always A ...
    Texas Playboy
     starring
             the TEXAS PLAYBOYS
                 LIVE! in Concert
          under the Musical Direction of
                Kelli Grant
             the Queen of Swing ™
         © 2005 Kelli Grant (821137722333) (format: DVD-R)

Under the Musical Direction of
Kelli Grant the Queen of Swing ™
this is a TRUE COLLECTORS album. Never before has a woman fronted the Texas Playboys since the man himself, Bob Wills created the genre and the band to play his music til now,
The Texas Playboys.

SECOND SET
coming soon

 
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