I'll use this space for more comments on the songs. But not tonight. It's almost 3 AM.


1. The Radio's Taking Our Songs Away (Frank Hamilton & Adam Miller)

2. Tell Old Bill

3. Take Your Time (Peter Mundey)

4. Zebra Dun

5. The Rivers of Oregon (new lyrics by Adam Miller)

"Down by the Umpqua"? Well, I guess if anybody was going to do it, it would be a guy from Drain, Oregon.

6. By the Dry Cardrona (James K. Baxter / J. McNeish)

7. Summer Wages (Ian Tyson)

8. Bury Me in My Overalls (Malvina Reynolds)

9. The Two Sisters

10. Billy Venero

11. Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn

12. Damyankee Lad (Jimmie Driftwood)

13. Admiral Benbow

14. I Wish I Had the Shepherd's Lamb

15. Billy in the Low Land

16. Harry Herman (Albert Baily)

17. Gentle Annie (Stephen Foster)

18. Cowboy's Barbara Allen

What Art Thieme said on Mudcat about this version: In l962 a friend and I were heading west. Stopped in a bar in Cheyenne, Wyo where we met Del Bray, an older gent who had been a cowboy. He got a 6-pack (I was too young to drink legally then) and we went up to his room in his hotel and we swapped some songs. Mostly he knew Country songs---Hank Williams etc. I asked if he knew any older songs or ballads & he sang me a version of "B. Allen" that I scribbled down on the back of the proverbial envelope. It was a cowboy version of the song. Adam's version sounds very much like Art's.

19. Times a-Gettin' Hard (Lee Hays)