[Dixielandjazz] Hip Cowboy

[Ed Danielson]

I finally found it:  The Hip Cowboy, by Slim Gaillard, on an LP.  It's a 
send-up of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, and it's hilarious.  I've had 
the 78 since I was in high school 40 years ago, and it has never been 
released on CD, as far as I can tell.  But a website called hipwax.com had 
an LP called Smorgasbord, a collection of a number of Slim's singles 
(Soony-Roony, Babalu, Chicken Rhythm, Yep Roc Heresey, etc.).

Of course, there are no credits for the individual tunes on the LP, so I'm 
wondering if anyone on the DJML -- Bill Haesler, maybe? -- has the 
discographical particulars for The Hip Cowboy.  There's a pretty hot 
trombone solo that sounds like J. C. Higginbotham.  I'm guessing the tune 
would have been recorded around 1950, give-or-take 3 or 4 years.

www.hipwax.com looks to be a pretty reliable website for beatnik-type 
obscurities, but I don't see much pre-bop jazz listed.  It's worth a visit, 
though.

Ed Danielson

"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward."
-- James Thurber