675 Cliff Bruner’s (1915-2000) Texas Wanderers “Truck Driver Blues” 1939

“I never copied fiddle players, intentionally I didn’t…matter of fact, on a jazzy tune it’s impossible for me to play the same way twice. I cannot do it and if I play it a hundred times, each time it’d be different. And so we just learned then to just improvise, and still sticking with the melody, we’d doctor it up a little bit. And I think it puts a lot of beauty into a tune” (Jean A. Boyd, interviewer, “Oral Memoirs of Cliff Bruner,” 8/14/1991). 

Cliff Bruner’s Texas Wanderers “Truck Driver Blues”