Review on 🌾 Tumbleweed Tumblers by John Hall

These are recordings from the 1930's and 1940's of a famous singing group that not only produced cowboy movie hero Roy Rogers, but also later character actor Ken Curtis, Deputy Festus Huggins on the famous TV series Gunsmoke played . I bought it because it was a good price and I had a Christmas gift card, but mainly because Roy Rogers shook two fingers off my right hand at his annual summer rodeo at Madison Square Garden in New York City around 1954 or 1955. I was about ten years old. Roy isn't the dominant voice on every track, but overall it's a good idea as to why Sons of the Pioneers sold so many vinyl records in the '30s-'60s. My boys had an album they did for RCA Victor called "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds" with "Cool Clear Water" and other Western stuff. It came out in the late '50s. So my purchase was more out of nostalgia than real craftsmanship. I have a lot of cowboy and western CDs on my music shelf and I'll play most of them more often than this compilation. But I wanted Roy's voice on that bookshelf. I cared about him for the personal touch and his TV shows, not his movies, most of which came out before I became a fan. If RR was one of your childhood heroes, you might also like this article.