Bob Dunn Vagabond Tracks

Howard Parker · Post by **Howard Parker** » 10 May 2008 12:21 pm

I just discovered these 23 Bob Dunn Vagabond tracks on this great website. I used WinRar to extract the archives. The Bob Dunn stuff is surprisingly hot. I'll dig into the other stuff as a have time.

Enjoy

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Bryan Bradfield · Post by **Bryan Bradfield** » 11 May 2008 2:45 pm

Thank you Howard. I've been looking for Bob Dunn stuff for years, ever since Stacy Phillips gave him such a good promotion in one of his dobro books.

Walter Stettner · Post by **Walter Stettner** » 12 May 2008 1:39 am

The stuff that he did with Milton Brown is also amazing. One of the real true pioneers of the instrument!

Kind Regards, Walter

Keith Cordell · Post by **Keith Cordell** » 12 May 2008 2:59 am

When you listen to his work remember that he was influenced heavily by trombones in developing his style. It really starts to make sense when you do.

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 12 May 2008 9:32 am

Mitch Drumm · Post by **Mitch Drumm** » 12 May 2008 9:50 am

He in fact was a trombone player. If I recall correctly, there is a pic of him playing trombone in a biographical article published in a scholarly type mag a few years ago. I read it, but can't recall the publication. The article is reprinted in:

Kingsbury, Paul: The Country Reader: Twenty-five Years of the Journal of Country Music (Vanderbilt University Press/Country Music Foundation Press)

As I recall, the article ran 8 or 10 pages.

A multiple CD project of Dunn's recorded output has been in the works for years and will eventually be released on the OJL label. They are still rooting around trying to get the best available copies of the source material to assure best sound quality. I would love to hear what he might have sounded like in say 1960 on a Fender, but I'm not aware of anything newer than about 1950.

The material Howard references is from circa 1940, with his own band as recorded for Decca. Moon Mullican sings on a track or two.

He also recorded with Floyd Tillman, The Texas Wanderers, The Sons of Dixie, Cliff Bruner, The Modern Mountaineers, and Dickie McBride in the 1940s, and a few lesser known bands circa 1950.