Don Walser

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Walser was born in Brownfield, Texas. A roots musician since he was 11 years old, Walser became an accomplished guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He started his first band, The Panhandle Playboys, at age 16, and shared bills with another aspiring Texas singer, Buddy Holly. As rock'n'roll began to skyrocket in popularity, Walser opted to stay in the Texas Panhandle, raise a family and work as a mechanic and auditor for the National Guard, rather than move to Nashville and pursue a recording career. As a result, he had little following outside Texas for the first part of his career. However, he never stopped playing and became widely known in Texas. From 1959-61 Walser had a group called The Texas Plainsmen and a weekly radio program. For the next three decades he was always in bands and played a heavy schedule. He wrote popular original songs such as "Rolling Stone from Texas", which received a four-star review in 1964 from Billboard magazine. As time went on, Walser also became known for maintaining a catalog of older, obscure country music and cowboy songs. He keep alive old 1940s and 1950s tunes by country music pioneers such as Bob Wills and Eddie Arnold, and made them his own in a style that blended elements of honky tonk and Western swing. He also was known for his extraordinary yodeling style in the tradition of Slim Whitman and Jimmie Rodgers. In 1984, the Guard transferred Walser to Austin, a center of the burgeoning alt-country music scene. He put together his

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Rolling Stone From Texas

Texas Top Hand

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Dare to Dream: The Best of Don Walser

I'll Hold You in My Heart

Live on the Air! - The Texas Plainsmen w/ Yodelin' Donnie Walser

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The Horse Whisperer

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Dare To Dream Best Of

Horse Whisperer

Texas Legend

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Down at the Sky-Vue Drive-In

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Just Me and My Old Guitar

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The Best of Don Walser

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