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Thread #15451 Message #1107637
Posted By: open mike
02-Feb-04 - 05:41 PM
Thread Name: ADD: The Brave Engineer..Slim Critchlow
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Brave Engineer..Slim Critchlow
i added 2 posts to this thread -- now they are not here... they were links to 2 other albums which Slim is included on.. here is the track listing from the cow boy songs arhoolie disc.. from a Danish site... 1. The crooked trail to holdbrook 2. Borax Bill 3. The trail to Mexico 4. Forty a month and found 5. The brazos river 6. D-bar-2 hourse wrangler 7. Windy Bill 8. Good bye, old paint 9. The bucking bronco 10. I'd like to be in Texas 11. Zebra dun 12. Ten thousand cattle 13. Driftin' cowboy 14. Red river valley 15. The high tone dance 16. The old cowboy 17. State of Arkansas 18. The habit 19. Strawberry roan 20. The buffalo skinners 21. Cowboy's lament 22. The wild buckaroo 23. Snagtooth sal 24. The trusty lariat 25. John Garner's trail herd 26. Whiskey Bill 27. The last wagon Arhoolie site
Slim Critchlow - guitar and vocals
The old-time cowboy songs grew out of the cow camps, trail herds, and open range - the everyday life of the cowboy. Slim's deep love for the old ways and the old songs - and his natural disdain for the Hollywood version ("With all the boys down in town shootin' each other, it kinda makes you wonder who was out tendin' the cows...." as he puts it) caused him to keep the old songs alive and to hold to the style he had learned from the old-timers during the 1920's and before. Here is a collection of great songs to ride the trail with us - in our dreams and in our everyday lives, from here to eternity - riding with as good a compadre as could be found in a thousand years.
a review:
"The guitar playing Critchlow had a warm voice and a winning manner that makes this collection an end to end delight. The songs are 'real' cowboy songs ... and often represent parochial poetry put to music, the stories ... are rich in authentic details and strong on humor (and sometimes salty of language). Good notes, good sound, a fine CD!"