Bob Dunn's Vagabonds - Decca Discography 1939-40

Bob Dunn is widely considered the true pioneer of the world’s first electrically amplified steel guitar.

His first recordings for Decca, with Milton Brown (the "Father of Western Swing"), are considered to be the first electric instrument recordings. Dunn was a jazz guitarist who first heard electric steel guitar played by a down and out blues performer on the Coney Island boardwalk; Dunn's innovative steel guitar solo riffs single-handedly created country & western's most recognized solo instrumental sound.

After Brown's death in 1936, Dunn played with many different groups, including Roy Newman, Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers, Bill Mounce and the Sons of the South, and Buddy Jones. He made some recordings on Decca under the name Bob Dunn's Vagabonds (actually Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers) between 1938 and 1940, which are collected here.

Bob Dunn ended his professional musical career with the onset of World War II. He enlisted and served during the war. After the war, he earned a degree in music from the Southern College of Fine Arts and opened a music store in Houston. He died in Houston on May 27, 1971.

1. Mama's Gone Goodbye - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1939
2. Too Long - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1939
3. Blue Skies - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1939
4. Toodle-Oodle-Oo - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1939
5. When Night Falls - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1939
6. You Don't Know My Mind - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1939
7. It Must Be Love - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1939
8. Mean Mistreater - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1939
9. Graveyard Blues - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1939
10. I Want the World To Know I Love You - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1939
11. You'll Pay Some Day - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1939
12. Basin Street Blues - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1939
13. Was That All I Meant To You - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1938
14. Sweet Bunch of Daisies - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1938
15. Stompin At the Honky Tonk - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1939
16. Wednesday Rag - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1939
17. I'll Tell The World (She's A Good Little Girl) - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1940
18. Meet Me Tonight in Dreams - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1940
19. I'll Forget Dear (That I Ever Loved You) - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1940
20. Juke Box Rag - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1940
21. I Found You Out When I Found You (In Somebody Else's Arms) - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1940
22. Marcheta - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1940
23. I'll Tell The World (She's A Good Little Girl) - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1940
24. 'Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon - Bob Dunn's Vagabonds | 1940

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