Sons of the West, Amarillo

In the fall of 1938 Amarillo's Sons of the West entered the Gunter Motel in San Antonio. Just short of a dozen songs came from this session with the two featured here being the A-side and B-side of Decca 5629. "My Gal" is a hot uptempo number that prominently features one of the greatest steel players to ever worship at the alter of Bob Dunn... one Mr. Billy Briggs. Listen to Billy when he gets going. Most surely this ain't even Billy's brightest moment, but it's still dang'd hot, kids. A sign of things to come.

Three years later the Sons would go to Dallas to record a session for Okeh from whence "Sally's Got a Wooden Leg", arguably the group's shining moment, would be pulled. This same session would also feature an early workup of Billy's own "Panhandle Shuffle" which would be worked on and over for a few years to come.

Then Billy would take a few of the Sons, turn 'em into the XIT Boys, and they would go on to cut some of the hottest swing to EVER come out of Texas.