Although Texan and the various incarnations of his undeniably played , they were only a deliberate step or two removed from being an old-time , albeit an incredibly jazzy one. This fun set collects 16 of the band's early sides for , all recorded between 1934 and 1936, and includes a mix of delightful instrumentals along with updated and streamlined classics like would go on to record for , cutting well over 200 singles and appearing in a half-dozen Hollywood Westerns in the '40s, but the template for all of that was set in these early sessions for . ~ Steve Leggett