The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #133183   Message #3019829
Posted By: Artful Codger
31-Oct-10 - 04:33 AM
Thread Name: Where is our Catter Cowboy Songs?
Subject: RE: Where is our Catter Cowboy Songs?
Yep, "The Fugitive's Lament" is also on that WIWAC CD, which is one reason I get the artists confused. Volume One is great, too. Those CDs been mentioned in several of the cowboy song threads here, so I'm surprised you've missed them!

"Back to My Wyoming Home" starts out similarly to "Strawberry Roan" in the first two lines (a fairly generic melodic pattern), but otherwise the tunes are different and "Wyoming Home", with three discrete parts, has more melodic content. I'm not even sure that the now popular "Strawberry Roan" tune is any older--has anyone traced it back farther than the Howard/Vincent reworking in the early 1930s?

Pardon me for the off-topic digressions.