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Cliff Bruner

Clifton Lafayette Bruner (April 25, 1915 – August 25, 2000) was a fiddler and bandleader of the Western Swing era of the 1930s and 1940s. Bruner's music combined elements of traditional string band music, improvisation, blues, folk, and popular melodies of the times.[1][2][3][4]

Cliff Bruner

Clifton Lafayette Bruner

(1915-04-25)April 25, 1915
Texas City, Texas, U.S.

August 25, 2000(2000-08-25) (aged 85)
Texas City, Texas, U.S.

Western swing

1930s - 1980s

Death[edit]

Bruner died of cancer on August 25, 2000, aged 85.[6]

Milk Cow Blues (Decca, 1937)

Can't Nobody Truck Like Me (Decca, 1937)

(Decca, 1937)

Corrine Corrina

Sunbonnet Sue (Decca, 1938)

Oh How I Miss You Tonight (Decca, 1938)

River Stay 'Way From My Door (Decca, 1938)

(Decca, 1938)

I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate

(Decca, 1939)

When You're Smiling

Truck Driver's Blues (Decca, 1939)

(Decca, 1939)

San Antonio Rose

Because (Decca, 1940)

Draft Board Blues (Decca, 1941)

That's What I Like About The South (Decca, 1946)

Unfaithful One (AYO, 1949)

I'll Try Not To Cry (Coral, 1950)

Moon Mullican

Bob Dunn

The Jazz of the Southwest, An Oral History of Western Swing, by Jean A. Boyd, , 1998 OCLC 44955610 ISBN 978-0-292-70860-0

University of Texas Press

Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

A Guide to the Delmer Rogers Collection, 1987-1994

General references

at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.

Cliff Bruner recordings

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