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Thread #13283   Message #108698
Posted By: arkie
26-Aug-99 - 12:48 PM
Thread Name: Favourite cowboy songs
Subject: RE: Favourite cowboy songs
Glenn Ohrlin, who lives up on Dodd Mountain just south of Mountain View, Arkansas is a wonderful source of authentic cowboy music. His book Hell-bound Train has already been mentioned. He has several recordings on LP which are now quite rare but worth it they can be found. He does have a cassette which is available now and then, It is currently in stock at the Ozark Folk Center. He does one of the best renditions of the Wally McCray poem, Reincarnation, of any I have heard. His book includes The Gol-Durned Wheel, describing a cowboy's encounter with a bicycle and a lot of classic cowboy songs that he collected during his years of cowboy work and rodeoing, along with notes and observations.

Bob Campbell, of Kilgore Texas, writes some fine songs which are picked up by many of the contemporary performers on the Cowboy circuit. Such songs as Cowboy Moon, Roundup Time on the Pitchfork, and Arbuckle Coffee.

A search on the internet for the Elko Cowboy Gathering will turn up a multitude of resources on cowboy music and poetry.