(2-CD Set) Western Swing flourished from the 1930s to the early fifties, particularly strongly in the Southwestern States, as an innovative hybrid of big band swing, blues, ragtime and country fusing both white and black rural traditions in predominantly good-humoured style. Featured on this collection are solo outings by star soloists Leon McAuliffe & Tommy Duncan. Cliff Bruner contributes "Corrine Corrina", the blues standard later covered by Muddy Waters and Big Joe Turner, while Adolph Hofner gives an early account of Line Dancing favourite "Cotton Eyed Joe". Patsy Montana's "I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart" sold a million in 1935 for the gutsy singer who fronted the Prairie Ramblers.