Press Release

To: All Media Outlets

From: Danny Baker and Bison Records

Date: July 7, 2000

For more information: 1-918-260-7939 / bisonrecords@cs.com

So you think you’ve heard all of Bob Wills’ music? Well, think again,

you haven’t. Wills’ may have died 5/13/1975 but Danny Baker at

Bison Records in Tulsa, Oklahoma has uncovered a Wills’ treasure,

two live performances at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio

Texas, Wills’ home town. The live recordings were taped by sound

engineer Carl Cloud, in 1963, and 1964, during Wills’ performance

at the officer’s club on the base. Normally, the tapes recorded at

the club were recycled after a while, but Cloud saved the Wills

recordings in a suitcase, and after his death Cloud’s nephew and

owner of Bison Records Danny Baker inherited the recordings.

"I knew I had something special the first time I heard the reel to

reel and after we transferred it to digital, I was blown away.""We

would be doing Bob Wills’ fans a disservice if we didn’t release it.

Its amazing stuff."

The two live performances contain more than forty songs by Wills.

Baker plans to release the live recordings in two stages. "We are

working with the Wills family to get these live recordings out there

and we’re all very anxious for Bob Wills fans to hear them."

Some of the songs Wills made famous are on these rare live

recordings. Songs like "Faded Love, Take Me Back To Tulsa, and

San Antonio Rose," are included but so are "La Golandrina, and

Rosetta," songs Wills rarely did live.

Danny Baker says the first CD of the live recordings will be released

this fall. For more information contact:

Danny Baker at Bison Records at 1-918-260-7939

or bisonrecords@cs.com