LEON Rausch
| Bright Lights & Blonde Haired Women (With tom morrell)7/8/09 | | |
| Can't Go On This Way (With Tom Morrell) | | |
| Careless Hands (With tom morrell)7/8/09 | | |
| Corrina 8/4/09 (live with tom morrell) | | |
| Don't Cry Baby (With Tom Morrell) | | |
| Four Or Five Times 8/4/09 (live With tom morrell) | | |
| Goodbye Liza Jane (With tom morrell)7/8/09 | | |
| Goodnight Little Sweetheart 8/4/09 (live With tom morrell) | | |
| Hang Your Head In Shame (With Tom Morrell) | | |
| I Didn't Realize (With Tom Morrell) | | |
| I Laugh When I Think How I Cried Over You (With tom morrell)7/8/09 | | |
| Ida Red (With Tom Morrell) | | |
| Maiden's Prayer 8/4/09 (live With tom morrell) | | |
| Mean Woman With Green Eyes (With Tom Morrell) | | |
| Milk Cow Blues 8/4/09 (live With tom morrell) | | |
| Misery (With Tom Morrell) | | |
| Misery 8/4/09 (live With tom morrell) | | |
| Oh You Pretty Woman (With Tom Morrell) | | |
| Pastime Blues (with TOM MORRELL) 8/13/09 | | |
| Sick, Sober & Sorry (With Tom Morrell) | | |
| Sweet Kind Of Love (With Tom Morrell) | | |
| Ten Years (With Tom Morrell) | | |
| Texas Fiddle Man (With tom morrell) 7/8/09 | | |
| Worried Over You (With Tom Morrell) | | |
| You Don't Care What Happens To Me (With Tom Morrell) | | |
Born and raised in the state of Missouri, it took Leon Rausch many years to become one of the greatest in the Western Swing field. He played with a number of bands during the lean years of his career. And the fifties saw him with a band in Oklahoma that would
eventually travel the United States playing the music he loved.
In 1956, Leon was in Tulsa following his deep love and considerable talent for Western Swing music. One of the many
breaks to Leon when he met Mr. Bob Wills. Bob asked Leon to become a Texas Playboy as lead vocalist. Leon quickly accepted
and joined Bob’s band on St. Patrick’s Day in 1958. From that point, big things started happening for the Missouri native.
A few years ago, after Bob passed on, Betty Wills, his widow, decided to put together some dates for the playboys. The band
was called “Bob Wills’ Original Texas Playboys” and their collective mission was to keep Bob's music alive! The members
of this great band are some of Bob's greatest and most liked musicians. Yes, you guessed it…Leon was named the lead vocalist.
Leon performed with the playboys for the group's final concert. A sellout at Will Rogers auditorium in Ft. Worth, Texas, on November
16. 1986. He still performs each year at Turkey, Texas, the hometown of Bob Wills. Bob Wills Day is the last weekend in April.
This huge event attracts Bob Wills fans from all over the world.
Having worked with the legends of our time in country music. Leon Rausch is a first-class strictly country artist. His smooth,
solid voice and western swing delivery make him one of the more popular artists in the country. Leon has appeared with such artists
as Glenn Campbell, Roy Clark. Loretta Lynn, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, George Strait, Jim Reeves, the son's of the pioneers,
Ernest Tubb, Patsy Cline, Mel Tillis, Roy Acuff, and many more. He has been featured on the TV shows, "Austin City Limits,"
"Nashville Now," and “Texas Connection" several times, and was featured with the Playboys in a film for the Smithsonian Institute on
country music history. Leon has traveled all over the world playing Bob Wills’ music including the Wembley Festival in London,
reportedly the largest package concert in the world. Also overseas dates include several trips promoting Texas for the Texas Tourist
Bureau. (reprint from leonraush.net)
