Cliff Bruner

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That's What I Like About The South 00:00 Tools
New Falling Down Blues 00:00 Tools
When You're Smiling 00:00 Tools
It Makes No Difference Now 00:00 Tools
Truck Driver's Blues 00:00 Tools
One Sweet Letter from You 00:00 Tools
Corrine Corrina 00:00 Tools
Milk Cow Blues 00:00 Tools
Corrine, Corrina 00:00 Tools
Draftboard Blues 00:00 Tools
Too Wet To Plow 00:00 Tools
Kangaroo Blues 00:00 Tools
Too Wet To Plough 00:00 Tools
San Antonio Rose 00:00 Tools
I Was A Gambler In Texas 00:00 Tools
Jessie 00:00 Tools
Crafton Blues 00:00 Tools
Out of Business 00:00 Tools
Dream Train 00:00 Tools
So Tired 00:00 Tools
Bring It on Home to Grandma 02:42 Tools
San Antonio Blues 00:00 Tools
Sunbonnet Sue 00:00 Tools
Can't Nobody Truck Like Me 00:00 Tools
Pine State Honky Tonk 00:00 Tools
Shine 00:00 Tools
Bringin' Home the Bacon 00:00 Tools
Four or Five Times 00:00 Tools
In the Blue of the Night 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None o' This Jelly Roll 00:00 Tools
Bringing Home The Bacon 00:00 Tools
Old Fashioned Love 00:00 Tools
Sugar 00:00 Tools
Girl of My Dreams 00:00 Tools
The Right Key (But the Wrong Keyhole) 00:00 Tools
Under the Silvery Moon 00:00 Tools
By a Window At the End of the Lane 00:00 Tools
You Can Depend on Me 00:00 Tools
I Saw Your Face in the Moon 00:00 Tools
When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) 00:00 Tools
Kelly Swing 00:00 Tools
You've Got to Hi De Hi 00:00 Tools
You Don't Love Me But I'll Always Care 00:00 Tools
You Always Hurt the One You Love 00:00 Tools
Red River Rose 00:00 Tools
Don't Make Me Blue 00:00 Tools
I'll Try Not to Cry 00:00 Tools
My Untrue Cowgirl 00:00 Tools
Draft Board Blues 00:00 Tools
I'm Tired of You 00:00 Tools
Roadside Rag 00:00 Tools
Ouch 00:00 Tools
Let Me Smile My Last Smile At You 00:00 Tools
A Mother Gave a Son 00:00 Tools
I'm Still in Love with You 00:00 Tools
IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE NOW (TILLMANN) 00:00 Tools
The Other Way 00:00 Tools
Oh You Pretty Woman 00:00 Tools
Old Joe Turner Blues 00:00 Tools
Oh How I Miss You Tonight 00:00 Tools
You Took Advantage of a Lonely Heart 00:00 Tools
(I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My) Sister Kate 00:00 Tools
Beaumont Rag 00:00 Tools
That's What I Like About the South (1945) 00:00 Tools
My Pretty Blonde 00:00 Tools
Tequila Rag 00:00 Tools
Jessie's Sister 00:00 Tools
Peggy Lou 00:00 Tools
Draggin' the Bow 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Faithful 00:00 Tools
Little White Lies 00:00 Tools
Unfaithful One 00:00 Tools
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean 00:00 Tools
If It's Wrong to Love You 00:00 Tools
Singin' the Low Down Blues Down Low 00:00 Tools
Because 00:00 Tools
I'm Headin' for That Ranch in the Sky 00:00 Tools
Over the Trail 00:00 Tools
Tell Me Why Little Girl Tell Me Why 00:00 Tools
Annie Laurie 00:00 Tools
Born to Be Blue 00:00 Tools
Star Dust 00:00 Tools
Hard Luck Blues 00:00 Tools
The Sun Has Gone Down on Our Love 00:00 Tools
Ease My Wearied Mind 00:00 Tools
You Took Everything 00:00 Tools
Won't You Mend My Aching Heart 00:00 Tools
You've Got to Give Me What's Mine 00:00 Tools
Sittin' on the Moon 00:00 Tools
Ten Pretty Girls 00:00 Tools
Lucille from Mobile 00:00 Tools
I Hate to Lose You 00:00 Tools
Remember 00:00 Tools
When your smiling 00:00 Tools
Santa Fe Waltz 00:00 Tools
Sorry (I'll Say I'm Sorry) 00:00 Tools
New Falling Rain Blues 00:00 Tools
Yearning Just for You 00:00 Tools
I'll Forgive You (But I Can't Forget) 00:00 Tools
Can't Nobody Truck Like Me (alt) 00:00 Tools
Shine (alt) 00:00 Tools
Lucille From Old Mobile 00:00 Tools
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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. Bruner's music combined elements of traditional string band music, improvisation, blues, folk, and popular melodies of the times. Bruner was born in Texas City, Texas, and spent most of his childhood near Houston. He learned to play fiddle, and traveled with medicine shows to begin his musical career. Milton Brown's Musical Brownies drafted Bruner in 1935. Bruner played with the ensemble's classically trained fiddler Cecil Brower to create the memorable double fiddle sound of Milton Brown's group. Bruner recorded with Brown's group on the Decca music label, until Brown was killed in an automobile accident. This ended Bruner's involvement in the group. After the incident, Bruner formed the The Texas Wanderers. This band included Bob Dunn on electric steel guitar, Leo Raley on mandolin, J.R. Chatwell on fiddle, Dickie McBride on guitar and vocals, and Moon Mullican on vocals and piano. The Wanderers recorded on the Decca and Mercury Records labels. His songs had a special southern characteristic including songs about truck driving, lost love, the draft, and ill repute. Cliff Bruner is an "unsung" star of the little-noted Country music charts that appeared in Billboard prior to 1944. His hit It Makes No Difference Now spent twenty weeks atop the chart. Other hits 1939–1942 included "Sorry", "Kelly Swing", "I'll keep on loving you" and "When You're Smiling". Perhaps his most famous hit was "Truck Drivers' Blues", the first truck driving song. Many of these recordings featured future singer piano star, Moon Mullican, on vocals. Bruner's big band disbanded in the 1950s. However, Bruner continued to play music and his trio appeared in the Sally Field movie Places in the Heart (1984). He had also been given recognition when the revival of western swing came about in the 1970s. Bruner died of cancer in August 2000. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.