My Window Faces The South ---by A Clean Cut Texan

Roger Shackelton · Post by **Roger Shackelton** » 28 Dec 2008 12:14 am

Here is a tune sung by a clean cut Texas Boy---WILLIE NELSON.

Does anybody recognize him.???

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xm7l36iUY ... re=related

ROGER

Billy Tonnesen · Post by **Billy Tonnesen** » 28 Dec 2008 2:15 pm

I'm sure a lot of you also recognized Wade Ray the fiddle player. Wade had his own group in So. Los Angeles during the 50's and early 60's at a club called "Cow Town" on So. Vermont Ave. We all got to enjoy Wade for several years before he headed back East on us. Wade had some of the top musicians in So. Calif. at differen't times. He was "Mr. Smooth"
in his playing and singing.

Roger Shackelton · Post by **Roger Shackelton** » 28 Dec 2008 11:35 pm

Hi Billy,

Didn't Wade Ray play quite a bit in Las Vegas?

ROGER

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 31 Dec 2008 9:51 am

concerning 'my window faces the south', sarah palin wants to know if you can see mexico from there!

Jerry Hayes R.I.P. · Post by **Jerry Hayes R.I.P.** » 31 Dec 2008 11:49 am

Tell Sarah if you're in El Paso you can, but if you're in Dallas you can't.......JH in Va.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 31 Dec 2008 12:09 pm

Leon Rhodes on guitar is the highlight for me. And notice Jack Greene on drums. He later had nine #1 hits, including "Statue of a Fool" and "There Goes My Everything".

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 31 Dec 2008 2:53 pm

absolutely...leon rhodes...

also interesting that willy phrased all around the beat all along!

Randal Smith · Post by **Randal Smith** » 31 Dec 2008 5:33 pm

Leon came in to John A's here in Nashville on a Sunday night a couple of months ago and sat in with the band. He can still tear it up.

Jason Odd · Post by **Jason Odd** » 31 Dec 2008 6:23 pm

Willie Nelson, Leon, Wade and on drums, that's Jack Green yeah? ..................damn, that's a great clip.

I'm guessing 1965-66?

At the time Willie decided to tour without a band, carrying along only Wade Ray, who had played bass with Willie's Record Men. They picked up other musicians in the towns where they appeared, I guess Wade switched between fiddle and bass, depending on what they found while on tour.

Chet Atkins recorded them wil Willie through December 15-16 in '65 for Willie's second RCA album;
"Country Favorites, Willie Nelson Style" (RCA Victor LSP 3528) 1966.
Leon Rhodes - lead guitar
Cal Smith - rhythm guitar
Buddy Charleton - steel
Troy Drake - bass
James Wilkerson - tictac bass, vibes
Jack Greene - drums
Hargus Pig Robbins - piano
Wade Ray - fiddle

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My Window Faces The South ---by A Clean Cut Texan

My Window Faces The South ---by A Clean Cut Texan

cool clip