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03 Mar 00 - 11:49 PM (#189146) Subject: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: BlueSage I'm doing a material search for my trio. Does anyone know of any outstanding folk songs (trad. or contemporary) that deal with themes pertaining to the American West? If so, what recordings of same songs would you recommend? Any suggestions will be of great help to me! Thanks in advance...Mike Iverson
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03 Mar 00 - 11:57 PM (#189151) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: rainbow how about rounder recordings? 1996 "singing in the saddle" - seventy years of recorded cowboy song. rounder cd 1102... has gene autry, sons of the pioneers, roy rogers, tex ritter, bob wills and his texas playboys, ray whitley, elton britt, rosalie allen, louise massey and the westerners, wilf carter (montana slim) and jimmy wakely trio. i really like montana slim's song "there's a love knot in my lariat." and skip gorman's cd's, and sourdough slim's cd's (along with the saddle pals, aka cactus bob and prarie flower)... ... lorraine |
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04 Mar 00 - 12:08 AM (#189158) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: DonMeixner Pure folk? Hard to say, The Strawberry Roan, Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail, Plains of the Buffalo, Billy Venero, Alongside the Santa Fe Trail. Western Jazz, Cool Water, Blue Bonnet Girl, Way Out There, Everlasting Hills of Oklahoma, anything by The Sons of The Pioneers, Bob Wills Modern, Four Strong Winds, Night Rider's Lament, The Goodnight-Loving Trail. Don |
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04 Mar 00 - 01:00 AM (#189176) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Amos Lavender Cowboy, Streets of Laredo, Red River Valley, I've Got No Use for the Women, Colorado Trail, I Ride an Old Paint, Night Rider's Lament, Git Along, Little Dogies, The Old Chisholm Trail, and Sweet Baby James |
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04 Mar 00 - 01:08 AM (#189179) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Homeless I ran across a somewhat scary (for me) CD at the local library. It's called "Cowboy Celtic" by David Wilkie, published by Red House Records, 1996. It's got some of the songs listed in previous posts. The scary part was that most of the songs were done with a celtic flavor to them. It was supposed to show how the Old West songs were influenced by the music that came across with the immigrants of the time. |
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04 Mar 00 - 01:30 AM (#189184) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Sandy Paton Utah Carroll, Little Joe the Wrangler, The Last Wagon, Old Dolores, The Telling Takes Me Home (one of Utah Phillips' genuine gems), Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail (AKA Sirey Peaks), Scum the Saddle Bum (on one of Skip Gorman's Folk-Legacy cassettes). Many more. Sandy |
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04 Mar 00 - 01:35 AM (#189185) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Liz the Squeak Here's a quarter, call someone who cares..... Or are you not wanting more modern stuff? That one for me sums up all that is the American West. Just an old cynic I suppose... If it's the old stuff you want, then I guess Red River Valley always does it for me, a typical story of a bloke shagging a girl from a different background/ethnic group for pleasure, then buggering off when one of his own calls, regardless of what he leaves behind. A broken-hearted NA girl in this case, but usually with something else like TB, syphilis, measles, or chickenpox, all equally deadly, and a lot less fun.... LTS |
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04 Mar 00 - 01:52 AM (#189193) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Arkie The Gol-Darned Wheel and Stetson Hat are in Glenn Ohrlin's book of cowboy songs. The first describes a cowboy's encounter with a bicycle. The second is a tribute to his hat, as you might suspect. For more contemporary songs you might check into anything by Bob Campbell. Some of my favorites are Big Cowboy Moon; Roll On, Cowboys; Round Up Time on the Pitchfork; Arbuckle Coffee, and Dance At Domingo. Also Sonora's Death Row and Marty Robbin's song about Old Red, about the battle between the horse that had never been rode and the cowboy that had never been throwed. |
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04 Mar 00 - 02:23 AM (#189207) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Stewie For the classic old stuff (20s and 30s), see the two Yazoo compilations 'When I Was a Cowboy Vols 1 & 2' Yazoo 2022 and 2023 - everything you need from that era. For later material, try Tom Russell's 'Cowboy Real' Philo PH 1146 - highlights are 'El Llano Estacado' and 'Roanie' - also his 'Song of the West' HMG 2501 and Ian Tyson's excellent 'Old Corrals and Sagebrush and Other Cowboy Culture Classics' Bear Family BCD 15437. Those don't skip over the terrain, they well and truly dig into the ground. --Stewie. |
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04 Mar 00 - 02:46 AM (#189214) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Chris/Darwin "The Goodnight-Loving Trail" (Utah Phillips) would have to be my favourite.
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04 Mar 00 - 06:53 AM (#189241) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Lanfranc RE Celtic & Western Those blasted (blasting?) Hibernians try to suborn every music genre going - I'm waiting for some member of the Irish mafia to claim that Beethoven was really Loudvaich O'Bheathown from Tipperary! RE Modern Cowboy Songs How about "Sweet Baby James" by James Taylor, and there's a Don McLean song whose title escapes me for the moment, "I could have been most anything that I set my mind to be, but a cowboy's life was the only one for me ...". Also "Long Black Rifle" as sung by the Kingston Trio and "South Coast" as sung by Derroll Adams and others. Trad ditto "Streets of Laredo", "The Old Chisholm Trail" and "Bucking Bronco" come to mind. |
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04 Mar 00 - 08:02 AM (#189252) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Frankie Gosh Liz, thanks for setting me straight on Red River Valley. Here I thought it was just a simple, beautiful song of parting. |
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04 Mar 00 - 08:34 AM (#189256) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: katlaughing At www.bibliofind.com, you will find used copies of Lomax's book, Cowboy Songs and Frontier Ballads, which was republished in 1986 by Alan Lomax, ISBN # 0-02-061260-5. You can also find copies of Ms. Katie Lee's Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle You will also find many of the songs already mentioned, in the DigiTrad database here at the Mudcat. Another favorite of mine is "When the Work's All Done This Fall." We also had a huge thread on this with some wonderful postings by Sandy Paton, Frank Hamilton, and others which you will find here. You can also type in COWBOY in the filter box at the top of the threads, set the date to one or two years, and find a few more threads relating to cowboy songs in some manner. Have fun, katlaughing |
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04 Mar 00 - 08:36 AM (#189257) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Timehiker Being a horseman more so than a cowboy, my favorite oldtimers are "I Ride an Old Paint" and "The Strawberry Roan". As for the newer ones, "Amarillo By Morning" describes the modern rodeo experience better than any of 'em IMHO. There's a rodeo singer named Chris LeDoux who has several albums of cowboy and rodeo songs out. He covers many of the titles already mentioned in this thread. Take care, Timehiker |
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04 Mar 00 - 09:13 AM (#189269) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: kendall Fast Gun Getting Slow by Dave Mallett |
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04 Mar 00 - 09:19 AM (#189276) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Uncle_DaveO My great favorites are Arrival of the Greenhorn and Zebra Dun. Dave Oesterreich |
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04 Mar 00 - 09:32 AM (#189280) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Frankie Yes, When the Work's All Done This Fall is great, and Doc and Merle Watson do a fine version of it on their On Stage album. One of my all-time favorite recordings is Marty Robbin's Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs which includes classics like The Strawberry Roan and Cool Water and his two masterpieces Big Iron and El Paso. F |
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04 Mar 00 - 09:53 AM (#189293) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: katlaughing IMO, Chris Ledoux's early stuff is more trad cowboy stuff than his more recent. We knew him then, he still lives just up the road from where we are in Wyoming. |
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04 Mar 00 - 10:30 AM (#189304) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Midchuck I concur with enthusiasm on the Tom Russell suggestions. I concur with equal enthusiasm on the Ian Tyson suggestions, but I think "Cowboyography" is really his best. Skip Gorman has several albums of cowboy songs, all good stuff, and more authentic trad. than the above. Try to find Guy Logston's book "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" and Other Songs Cowboys Sing. It has great songs, but they may be too authentic to perform in many venues..... Peter. |
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04 Mar 00 - 10:38 AM (#189310) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Duffy Keith Hey Homeless, what was that "cowboy celtic' music like....DK |
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04 Mar 00 - 10:47 AM (#189315) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: pastorpest In the fifties (am I dating myself!) the Norman Luboff Choir issues an LP entitled "Songs of the West" with great cowboy/western folk songs on it. I wish that whoever owns the copyrights to the Luboff "Songs of the West, the Sea, The South, and the World" would reissue them as CDs. |
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04 Mar 00 - 11:38 AM (#189336) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Pixie Tumbling Tumbleweeds! What a hard one to narrow down. If I didn't live in the Maritimes, I'd live in the old west! Yahoo! Try some of Michael Martin Murphey's recordings of cowboy songs....Linda Ronstadt has recorded many old western tunes over the years, as has Emmylou Harris. There is a whole culture in the interior of BC devoted to keeping this genre going so there should be lots of resource material out there. Pixie |
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04 Mar 00 - 01:34 PM (#189377) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: folk1234 One of my favorites not yet mentioned is "Blue Mountain". I've heard it done with somewhat of a bluegrass mountain twang and meter, but my favorite version is the one done by Bok, Muir, & Trickett in cowboy waltz-time on their "Language of the Heart" CD. It is available from our friends at Folk-Legacy. |
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04 Mar 00 - 01:53 PM (#189386) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Susan A-R My favorites would be The Goodnight-Loving Trail, Old Dolores and A Border Affair (Spanish is the Loving Tongue). What are some of the good yodeling songs? Those are fun for harmonizing once you get them down.
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04 Mar 00 - 03:50 PM (#189426) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Big Red My all time favorite is the old one-liner (melody is variable and/or optional) "I'm lonesome in the saddle since my horose died." |
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04 Mar 00 - 03:58 PM (#189428) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Lonesome EJ In the Traditional grouping, I like I Ride an Old Paint, The Texas Rangers, Streets of Laredo, San Antonio Rose and Jesse James. Of the newer "old favorites" I like The Blue Canadian Rockies, Me and My Uncle, Someday Soon, Sonora's Death Row, and (Ghost) Riders in the Sky. For sheer energy, it's hard to beat Thin Lizzy's Cowboy Song.
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04 Mar 00 - 08:15 PM (#189555) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Biskit There are just so many good ones,... if I had to pick one it would have to be "Long Black Veil" as done by the man in black Johnny Cash. -Biskit- |
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05 Mar 00 - 01:33 AM (#189718) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Lin in Kansas There's a great "cowboy" version of Barbara Allen on Art Thieme's "The Older I Get the Better I Was" CD. A very classy mix... Lin |
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05 Mar 00 - 02:00 AM (#189726) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: TheOldMole Another song about shagging a girl of a different race is "The Yellow Rose of Texas," done beautifully by Michael Martin Murphey on "Cowboy Songs." That album also has a great Ian Tyson song called "Cowboy Pride." Did anyone mention Jerry Jeff Walker's "Navajo Rug" album? And there's a wonderful song by Woody Guthrie called "Belle Starr," never recorded by Woody. In fact, he never wrote music to it, but Pete Seeger did, and put it on an album of cowboy songs by various artists. And you can't forget Frankie Laine. I know how corny he is, but I still love him. Funniest cowboy album...Riders In The Sky, "The Cowboy Way." |
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05 Mar 00 - 02:19 AM (#189735) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Sabra YES! Finally someone mentioned Rider's In the Sky (group, not the song, although song is cool too! Everything I know about cowboy music (& neo-cowboy humour)I learned from Too Slim, Ranger Doug, and Woody Paul...can't rave enough about their hilarious radio show that NPR used to carry. Does anyone know where they might have archived recordings of it? I never heard the end of "Meltdown on the Mesa" However,to return this post to the thread topic a bit...The Riders are great collectors of cowboy songs and their recordings are not only excellent, but a gold mine of information as well!! |
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05 Mar 00 - 03:03 AM (#189744) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Owlkat Hi hi, "My Sweet Wyoming Home", by Bill Staines (but water takes it out). Such a mellow relaxing tune to hear and sing. He's also a nice guy, which helps. Cheers, Owl. |
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05 Mar 00 - 03:07 AM (#189746) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Metchosin I can't think of any more traditional ones that haven't already been mentioned, but if you feel up to a bit of yodeling please check out Don Walser's "Cowpoke" on Archive Series, Vol II, its magic. |
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05 Mar 00 - 04:58 AM (#189754) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Liz the Squeak Oh, Frankie, I'm sorry, I'm just an old cynic who did the American Indians as a school project, and upset my teacher because I mentioned syphilis - this was aged about 10.... not knowing that she was Canadian, part Huron and her great grandmother had died of the same disease, given her by a white 'cowboy during rape. Red River Valley, or at least the version I learnt, clearly has the NA telling the cowpoke that although he marries a white girl, the "red maiden loves you the best". See where I get the cynicism? LTS |
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05 Mar 00 - 09:06 AM (#189795) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Timehiker Kat, You are right about Chris Ledoux's earlier recordings, they are more traditional than his later ones. Can't blame him for taking advantage of his commercial oportunities. I'd be willing to bet that, if you were to sit with him on his front porch, it would be the old ones he'd sing. Something about horse sweat and dust, the only way to get it out of you is to sing. Take care, Timehiker |
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05 Mar 00 - 09:22 AM (#189802) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Susan A-R Hmmm, then there's Tom Lehrer's The Wild West Is Where I Want to Be. (uh oh, I guess I'm in one of those moods today, and I haven't even finished my first cup of coffee.) |
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05 Mar 00 - 09:39 AM (#189807) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Frankie Liz, no need to apologise. I'm only familiar with RRV when sung with verses similar to those found in the database, very close to the ones my mom used to sing when she was cooking dinner. If you can scare up the version you're referring to it might be a good addition to the database. At least, I'd really be interested in it. Good to see you here again. Back on topic, the song Old Texas (goes "I'm going to leave old Texas now, They've got no use for the longhorn cow.") is one of my favorites and is in the database although I don't know of any recordings of it. Frankie |
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05 Mar 00 - 10:04 AM (#189819) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Uncle_DaveO Has anyone mentioned Bury Me Out on the Prairie?
"Wrap me up in my blanket,
I love that lugubrious song. I always did wonder, though, about the availability of granite boulders on the prairie. Oh, well. Dave Oesterreich
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05 Mar 00 - 10:43 AM (#189837) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Big Red For some comic relief, try Gunslinger by the Limeliters. |
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05 Mar 00 - 05:42 PM (#190004) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: ddw I know somebody mentioned Ian Tyson's Old Corrals and Sagebrush in an earlier posting, but it was just the first of a set of "Cowboyography" albums. There are six of them, if I remember correctly and they are excellent from start to finish, tho' the first three have more traditional stuff on them, interspersed with some modern things. The second in the set was just called "Ian Tyson" and "Cowboyography" was the third. After that, all I can remember is one was called "I Outgrew The Wagon" and another was called "18 Inches of Rain." Can't think what the last one was called, but if you can find the first five you'll have a wealth of great material and probably a link to the last one. A couple of other country artists whose stuff you might find interesting — tho' it's usually just a "filler" track in more mainstream country stuff — are John Anderson's "Sometimes an Eagle" and a bunch of Willie Nelson's stuff — The Red Headed Stranger leading that pack. Hank Williams Jr. also does one about a wrongly convicted man breaking out of a prison at Deer Lodge, Montana that's great, tho' I'm not sure of either the album it's on or the exact title. I'll do some looking when I get home and try to post more on those Monday night. cheers david |
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05 Mar 00 - 05:56 PM (#190013) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,punkypony All this cowboy stuff reminded me of a song, I think it's called "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky." Very haunting, recorded eons ago. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Is it famous? |
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05 Mar 00 - 06:03 PM (#190018) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: ddw Just remembered the other album in Ian Tyson's cowboy series. It's called "And Stood There Amazed." The title comes from the second or third verse of "Home on the Rangee" — and I think it was the first time I'd ever heard anything past the first verse of that tune. Just a by-the-by — Ian does dynamite versions of Navajo Rug and Night Rider's Lament in this series, plus a lot of other songs that have been mentioned above by other artists. And don't take it that I'm slighting any of the other performers like Utah Phillips and The Sons of the Pioneers — They're great too. There's also Marty Robbins, who did some great songs, albeit a little too slickly for my tastes in some instances. cheers david |
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05 Mar 00 - 06:11 PM (#190021) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Callie Liz: are you able to post the words you know to RRV? I also never knew the real song. It was taught to us at age 8 to learn basic guitar chords. By the way, that Don McLean song mentioned earlier is on his Live album from yonks ago. Dunno the name of the song, but it's not at all glamorous. The cowboy wants to do himself in. --Callie |
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05 Mar 00 - 07:45 PM (#190075) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: BlueSage I'm overwhelmed by the response to my plea for song suggestions. Many of the recommended songs are already in my repretoire, but many are new to me. This will give me a great place to start searching for new material. Thanks again for all great suggestions.....Mike Iverson |
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05 Mar 00 - 09:22 PM (#190114) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: TheOldMole (Ghost) Riders in the Sky, a great song, was a pop hit for crooner Vaughn Monroe. There's also a really nice Hank, Jr. song about Doc Holliday. |
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05 Mar 00 - 09:46 PM (#190128) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Ely "Hills of Mexico" "Good-Bye, Old Paint" "Jesse James" (Golden Ring version preferred--sorry, I grew up with it) "Mining for Gold" (trad words, on Cowboy Junkies' _Trinity Sessions_) Will always like N. Blake's "Billy Gray" even though I try not to fall hard for sappy songs. |
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05 Mar 00 - 10:05 PM (#190136) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,The Beanster Dear OldMole (love that name!) Thank you so much for answering my (Ghost) Riders in the Sky question. I am going on the hunt immediately! Thanx again. |
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05 Mar 00 - 10:50 PM (#190167) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: LC Has to be Marty Robbins', "El Paso". Being a child of the 60's & 70's I also really like Michael Murphy / Monkees, "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?" and Seals and Crofts', "Dust on My Saddle". I'm 6'4" and 210 lbs, but Dan Seals' "Everything that Glitters" gets me misty every time I hear it. |
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06 Mar 00 - 11:49 AM (#190406) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Dan Evergreen Dean Martin sang two good ones in "Rio Bravo" I've never heard anywhere else: "Purple Eyes," and "My Rifle, My Pony and Me." |
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06 Mar 00 - 06:31 PM (#190626) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Rex Nobody mentioned "Windy Bill" yet. Rex |
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06 Mar 00 - 07:20 PM (#190679) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Lanfranc I finally remembered the name of the Don McLean song I mentioned earlier - Bronco Bill's Lament. I forgot about El Paso, that was the first ever 45 single that I bought as a kid. OK, Marty Robbins isn't folk, but that song is probably one of the better narrative western ballads. |
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06 Mar 00 - 08:58 PM (#190736) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Liz the Squeak Nope, sorry, lost them in a paper purge we had last year. All I remember is the chorus that went something like:
So stay for a while ere you leave me The verse I referred to said something like 'When you lie with the white girl you married, remember the red loved you more.... or something of that sentiment. I really wish I knew where I could find it. Mind you, there was a pretty good version on the Slim Whitman album of the same name, back in 1970something. Of course, I am probably wrong and someone will come up with the proper version, sometime, I don't care.... I'm terrible at remembering songs anyway.... But I do remember the bit about the longhorn cow, we used to sing that at guides! Wasn't it the theme from some James Stewart film? LTS |
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06 Mar 00 - 10:23 PM (#190796) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: ddw Thumbing thru my albums today looking for the Hank Jr. tune I mentioned in my post above and found it; it's called Twodot Montana. I also came across the John Anderson tune I was trying to mention above and found — to my embarrassment — that it's really called "An Occasional Eagle," not "Sometimes An Eagle." They say the memory's the second thing to go and I can't remember what the first is.... david|
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06 Mar 00 - 11:28 PM (#190847) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Frankie Thanks, Liz, that's something to go on anyway. It sounds like a very different take on the RRV I'm used to. As for the longhorn cow song, I learned it around a Texas campfire but it may well have wound up in Hollywood. Regards, Frankie PS Another good one is Roundup Time in Texas [When the Bloom Is on the Sage] which has a fun, ragtimey feel to it. |
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06 Mar 00 - 11:35 PM (#190857) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: John in Brisbane I particularly like 'Tumbling Tumbleweeds' because it's fairly demanding to sing well and the tune is written in three separate parts which don't follow the predictable sequence of verse, chorus, middle eight, etc. It was probably written in Tin Pan Alley somewhere - does anyone know, please? Regards, John |
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06 Mar 00 - 11:37 PM (#190859) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Axeman Would have to be Willie Nelson's "The Red Headed Stranger". Used to listen to it under the high plains night skies... bands of the Milky Way were so close we could touch 'em. -Axe' |
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07 Mar 00 - 12:31 AM (#190919) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Metchosin John it was written by Nolan and as one of the Sons of the Pioneers was Bob Nolan, I would assume it was him. |
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07 Mar 00 - 08:04 PM (#191483) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: John in Brisbane Thanks Metchosin - I am only vaguely aware of Sons of the Pioneers. The old fashioned vocal harmonies that I've heard a long time ago were really great. Does anyone know if the harmonies are in print anywhere? Regards, John |
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07 Mar 00 - 08:32 PM (#191507) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: TheOldMole Speaking of Jimmy Stewart westerns, what about the themes from "The Man From Laramie" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"? |
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08 Mar 00 - 12:53 AM (#191694) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Songster Bob I sing the original version of "A Border Affair (Spanish is the Loving Tongue)", with its unconscious racist line "She was Mex and I was white," though in performance I usually repeat the line "They want me for that gambling fight." Whatever line I sing, it's still one of my favorite Western songs. My trio, "Sidekicks," does mostly Western songs, so I've heard a lot of the ones mentioned already. Another great one is "Old Bill Pickett," about a black cowboy and rodeo star of the 20s, but it's not "beautiful" the way some of the others mentioned here are. If Sidekicks ever does a recording (more than our four-song demo, that is), more folks will have the chance to hear George Stephens sing "Blue Mountain" or "Night Rider's Lament" or "Stockman's Last Bed" (an Aussie drover song). That's a treat to look forward to, as some of the DC folks can attest to. Bob Clayton |
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08 Mar 00 - 01:59 PM (#191953) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: BlueSage I'm astonished that "Blue Mountain" made this list as much as it has. I had no idea that the popularity of this "Utah" tune had spread out across the country. I learned the song about 20 years ago from a field recording in the Austin Fife archives residing at Utah State University. If anyone is passing through the southern Utah town of Monticello, stop at the city park. On the south side of the park are mounted some tubes which, when looked through, will focus your eyes on the "horse head" mentioned in the song. This is a natural feature of the mtn. and is quite interesting. I believe "Blue Mtn." is sort of the unofficial anthem of south-eastern Utah! Mike Iverson |
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08 Mar 00 - 02:38 PM (#191983) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Kim C Ohmagawd, I LOVE cowboy music. It's my true first love but believe it or not, here in Tennessee, there ain't much call for yodelers. My all-time favorite cowboy song is Michael Burton's Night Rider's Lament. I just love the lonesome feel of the song, plus it is one of the first songs I yodeled in public. So it's a little special. Also, the Great Don Edwards recorded Badger Clark's poem, "A Bad Half Hour" to the tune of "Annie Laurie." This makes me bawl no matter how many times I hear it. The downside is that I think of it whenever I perform Annie Laurie! Oh well. I really love all the old songs, plus a bunch of the new ones (Ian Tyson & Don Edwards especially). The Cowboy Celtic album ain't too bad. Regards ---Kim |
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08 Mar 00 - 03:19 PM (#191999) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Alice These are not necessarily my favorite cowboy songs, but I thought I would add this to the thread for those who may be interested. I have an old 1933 songbook of songs of the West that I found in my family's stack of old sheet music. The cover is torn off, but most of the songs are there. These are songs that were popular enough out here to be included in the songbook. The Man On the Flying Trapeze may seem out of place, but it was very popular, and my grandparents used to play it at country dances. Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along, Little Dogies Red River Valley (Liz, I've never heard the verse you mention) The Man on the Flying Trapeze (8 verses) Old Paint Jesse James, The Train Robbery Just My Gal and I Great Grand-Dad Hard Luck I Should Like To Marry The Big Rock Candy Mountain (hobo song, really) She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain The Cowboy Blanche, The Pride of the Ranch When the Work's All Done This Fall My Love Is A Rider [Bucking Bronco?] The Dreary, Dreary Life They Dying Cowboy (Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie)
Ten Thousand Cattle /a>
Old Zip Coon (Turkey in the Straw)
Night Herding Song (Slow Dogie Slow)
The Last Request
Wait For The Wagon
The Little Red Caboose behind the Train
Billy Boy
If you need the music, let me know and I will scan and post pages to my website.
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18 Mar 03 - 11:14 PM (#913123) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST Just happened to stumble onto this forum while searching for the lyrics to Glenn Ohrlin's "My Harding County Home". I am a college student, living away from my Harding County home (the song's true namesake and subject!)--a copy of the lyrics would mean alot to me! Much thanks in advance! |
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18 Mar 03 - 11:23 PM (#913128) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Amos Well, I have always been partial to "Lavender Cowboy" and (beggin' your pardons ma'ams, and present company excepted of course) "I've Got No Use for the Women". I love "The Strawberry Roan" and the standards like "Old Paint" "The Old Chisholm Trail" and "Git Along, Little Dogies", and probably the most-shagged song of all time, "Streets of Laredo". A |
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19 Mar 03 - 01:02 AM (#913166) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Rapparee Little Joe the Wrangler Zebra Dun Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing Old Shep The Old Chisholm Trail (both the clean and bawdy versions) come to mind right now. |
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19 Mar 03 - 02:11 AM (#913180) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: open mike i heard an irish song on st pat's and the tune was st. of laredo- any one know which song this would have been? i forgot what the irish lyrics were, cuz when i heard it i jsut kept thinking of that young man with the face of clay...and the outfit of a cowboy. |
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19 Mar 03 - 02:30 AM (#913185) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Seamus Kennedy Open Mike, probably The Bard Of Armagh, Seamus |
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19 Mar 03 - 10:32 AM (#913409) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Jim Colbert You can't go wrong with virtually anything from Marty Robbins's Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, or Tom Russell's Cowboy Real and Songs from the West. I was always fond of Art Thieme's rendering of Cowboy's Barbara Allen too... and Dobie Bill. I guess that's more a gunfighter song than a cowboy song if you want to split horsehairs. I'd reckon my absolute favorites, albeit not traditional, are Russell's The Sky Above, The Mud Below; Sonora's Death Row as recorded by Richard Shindell (yes, don't argue with me, it was on a relatively rare sampler which is available- drop me a line if you're interested) and Marty's recording of Utah Carroll. And yes, there is at least one Sons of the Pioneers disc in print; Collectors Choice Music has it- my wife got it for me for Christmas this year. jim |
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19 Mar 03 - 10:44 AM (#913420) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Midchuck Two new ones that I've just learned and have been singing to the point of driving those around me crazy: Bandolier, by Jack Hardy, off his new CD of the same title. Mick Ryan's Lament, from the Tim O'Brien Two Journeys CD. (The melody is "Garryowen>") Peter. |
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19 Mar 03 - 10:49 AM (#913426) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Bill D if you go to Rose, the Record Lady, you can HEAR many cowboy and C&W songs....many means several thousand! click here to see a list by title. |
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19 Mar 03 - 11:17 AM (#913459) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Wesley S Theres a new CD out entitled "High Lonesome Cowboy" by Peter Rowan and Don Edwards. They are joined by Tony Rice and Norman Blake. I can't recommend it enough. I'm sure you'll like it. Great cowboy songs with a bit of a bluegrass edge to it. |
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19 Mar 03 - 11:47 AM (#913500) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: ard mhacha I had an old recording of Woody Guthrie singing I Ride an Old Paint, which I always liked, and then I heard Linda Ronstadt singing this song a few weeks ago, pure magic. So, Old Paint is tops. Bing Crosby singing Home on the Range, and Hank Williams, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, pure poetry. Ard Mhacha. |
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19 Mar 03 - 11:54 AM (#913512) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Amos Actually, I have loved Night Rider's Lament ever since I learned it from Mudjack last summer. A |
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19 Mar 03 - 12:18 PM (#913547) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: allanwill A couple of Steve Goodman songs, Roving Cowboy and Spoon River, would fit very nicely. Allan |
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19 Mar 03 - 12:55 PM (#913589) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: BUTTERFLY Dave Oesterreich (5.3.2000) mentioned the song "Bury Me Out on the Prairie" with lyrics: "Wrap me up in my blanket, Bury me deep in the ground Cover me over with boulders Of granite, gray and round." This seems to come from "I've Got No Use for the Women". Although not deeply into Cowboy songs this is one of the best tunes in the "Cowboy Song" section of a CD-ROM I purchased from Rod Smith in England not too long back (it contains the lyrics and music for over 6,000 songs, mainly folk-oriented, for less than £20 (c. $30). The other nice tunes in this section have mostly been mentioned either under the same names as on the CD-ROM, eg "The Trail to Mexico", "Streets of Laredo" or others, eg "Stern Old Bachelor" is presumably the same as "Little Old Sod Shanty". However, 2 very nice ones ("Hell in Texas" and "Sioux Indians") have not been mentioned by anyone yet. Some of these songs are on the website www.traditionalmusic.co.uk though unfortunately many have had to be removed from the website "due to restrictions on band width". Worth checking this out (I have no connection with Mr. Smith other than as a satisfied customer. |
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19 Mar 03 - 12:59 PM (#913593) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Sandy Mc Lean Woody's great song "Philadelphia Lawyer" is in the DT. This was one cowboy that you didn't mess with! |
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19 Mar 03 - 01:58 PM (#913658) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Jim Colbert Boy, I never really thought of Spoon River (written by Mike Smith, I believe) to be a cowboy/western song... but I can see how you could due to the time frame. Did Masters have a specific time frame in mind? I honestly can't recall. |
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19 Mar 03 - 04:16 PM (#913807) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Mudlark For good old-fashioned country-western sentimentality there is nothing better than the Mom and Dad’s Waltz. On a lighter but more lugubrious note, Tyson's Darcy Farrow. And I think Pancho and Lefty is one of the great all-time Western theme songs. Also, Oklahoma Hills ("Way down yonder in the Indian Nation...") by Jack Guthrie is fun to sing, ditto Waiting for a Train (All around the Water Tank), by I think Jimmie Rodgers? |
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19 Mar 03 - 05:44 PM (#913899) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Bill D at Rose, the Record Lady's site mentioned above, you can hear two versions of "Oklahoma Hills" (am I pushing Rose? *grin*...you betcha!) 'Oklahoma Hills' - Hank Thompson (A-8) 'Oklahoma Hills' - Jack Guthrie (A-8) |
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19 Mar 03 - 06:06 PM (#913936) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: BanjoRay How come nobody's mentioned The Tennessee Stud, written by Jimmy Driftwood and performed by Doc Watson on the Will The Circle Be Unbroken album? Totally perfect musical poetry, with superb guitar picking! Ray |
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19 Mar 03 - 07:42 PM (#914027) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Bruce Buddies in the Saddle, Carter Family |
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19 Mar 03 - 10:14 PM (#914103) Subject: Lyr Add: BROWN EYED LEE From: GUEST,Arkie I'd like to add a couple of others "I'd Like to Be in Texas When They Round Up in the Spring", "That's How The Girls Are In Texas" and this one "Brown Eyed Lee" BROWN EYED LEE Kind friends, if you will listen, a story I will tell About the final bust-up that happened down in Bell I courted a brown-eyed maiden known by the name of Lee And when I popped the question, she said she'd marry me. I went and bought the license March eighteen ninety-nine Expecting in a few days the darling would be mine Her mother grew quite angry and said it could not be She said she had another, picked out for Brown-eyed Lee. She talked to friends and neighbors and said that she would fight, She'd get her old six-shooter out and put old Red to flight. But lovers laugh at shooters, and the old she-devil, too. I said I'd have my darling if she did not prove untrue. I borrowed Dad's old buggy and got Jim's forty-one. And started down to Kerns's, thinking I would have some fun. I'm not the one to craw-fish when I am in a tight; I said "I'll have my angel and not be put to flight. I went on down to Kerns's with the devil in my head, I said, "I'll have my darling, or I'll leave the old folks dead." Good fortune fell upon me, my darling proved untrue. I gave her back her letters and bid her a fond adieu. I pressed her to my aching heart, kissed her a last farewell, And prayed a permanent prayer to God to send her Ma to hell. I sold my cows to J.M.G. my corn to K.M.P And cursed the day I first met that darling brown-eyed Lee. |
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20 Mar 03 - 10:21 AM (#914470) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Uncle_DaveO Butterfly mentioned "I've Got No Use for the Women". It's in the DT, at THIS LOCATION Dave Oesterreich |
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20 Mar 03 - 10:56 AM (#914529) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Beccy I luh-uh-uh-uhve, The Rivers of Texas, as recorded by Bill Staines. Beccy |
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20 Mar 03 - 11:28 AM (#914561) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Mr Happy I've a few songs of this genre in my current repertoire. A Four-Legged Friend, Abilene, Folsom Prison Blues, Lonesome Pine, Cool Water |
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20 Mar 03 - 12:30 PM (#914617) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Banjoman Lots of great songs, but if you want one that pokes a bit of fun at the old west while still hitting a hard message, listen to Debby McClatchy singing "Seeing the Elephant" It's on one of her early LP's and I don't know who wrote it. Good Luck with your search |
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20 Mar 03 - 01:27 PM (#914647) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,boromir The best cowboy song ever written was Blue Shadows on the Trail by Johnny Lange and Eliot Daniel. |
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20 Mar 03 - 01:29 PM (#914649) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Beccy Boromir- Did you ever hear Martin Short, Steve Martin and Chevy Chase (I kid you not...) do that one? Beccy |
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21 Mar 03 - 02:36 AM (#915138) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Hrothgar Depending on the mood I'm in - The Goodnight-Loving Trail Colorado Trail Little Joe the Wrangler Home on the Range Red River Valley I Ride an Old Paint (yep, Ard Macha, love Ronstadt's version) |
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21 Mar 03 - 08:53 AM (#915302) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Dave Bryant There was a song - I think it was written by Ian Petrie, which had the chorus: You can tell all your friends when you heat those hoofbeats thrum, That the nearest thing to Silver is the Lone Ranger's Bum. I'll try and find the rest. |
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21 Mar 03 - 04:48 PM (#915606) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Mudlark Beccy...Re Blue Shadows and The Three Amigos...they did a pretty good job of it too, I thought. Not too shabby with My Little Buttercup either, dance routine not withstanding! |
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07 May 06 - 04:54 PM (#1734740) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: JedMarum KIM C - your comments re: Annie Laurie and Night Rider's Lament ... I played the Sam Houston Folk Fest just a couple of weeks ago with Don Edwards and some very very fine cowboy singers. Don did a just beautiful version of this song. With 1000 people at the festival, you could have heard a pin drop while he was singing. It was something to behold. Great song and a lovely tie from the cowboy to this fine old Scottish song! |
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12 Apr 08 - 07:25 PM (#2313961) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Lucyann Does anyone have the lyrics for this song? I know that Ed Trickett sings "A Bad Half Hour" to the tune of "Annie Laurie." |
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12 Apr 08 - 09:31 PM (#2314010) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: fumblefingers "Ridin' Down the Canyon." Roy Rogers and Smiley Burnette sang it, among others. |
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13 Apr 08 - 01:14 AM (#2314068) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: katlaughing Guest, Lucyann, Usually it is best to start a whole new thread to request lyrics. You did a good job of finding a related thread, though.:-) Anyway, I have started a thread for you with the word of Badger Clark's poem, which Don Edwards set to Annie Laurie. You can find the thread by clicking HERE. Welcome to the Mudcat. kat |
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13 Apr 08 - 02:17 AM (#2314074) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: open mike One I discovered this year was "Corn, Water and Wood", a Christmas song. It is by Carol Elliot and has been sung by Riders in the Sky, Michael Martin Murphey, Bryndle, and others. Also one called the Gift by Stephanie Davis. Another Christmas one. There is a song called The Gift by Ian Tyson, too, about Charles M. Russell. I also like to perform another Canadian song -- Cowboy Christmas by Connie Kaldor and BIM. And a poem from Austrailian whose name I forget...not Banjo Paterson.. When the Children Come Home..oh yes, Henry Lawson... And another song by a Canadian...Small Victory, by Garnet Rogers...about a horse that he got at auction, and she was destined for the glue factory. She gave birth to a colt which was named Victory. |
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13 Apr 08 - 04:24 AM (#2314099) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Amos The Glory Trail (High-Chin Bob), a great modern cowboy ballad. A |
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13 Apr 08 - 07:19 AM (#2314156) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: horace hockey Without a doubt, my favorite is Streets of Laredo. I am just a beginner on banjo but hope to someday create a song about the American Mustang. I am the activity director of the Indiana Mustang and Burro Association. Our group supports the BLM adoption program. |
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13 Apr 08 - 08:40 AM (#2314188) Subject: Lyr Add: A BORDER AFFAIR (Charles Badger Clark) From: GUEST My favorite is "A Border Affair" by Charles Badger Clark ... also known as "Spanish Is the Loving Tongue" ... back in the early '60s, Ian Tyson cleaned it up by getting rid of the interracial relationship at its core ... he also reversed some words in the last verse ... seems that every person that I've heard do this since then has the last verse screwed up (thanks to Mr. Tyson) ... he sings, "left my heart and lost her own" Spanish is the loving tongue Soft as music, light as spray Was a girl I learned it from Living down Sonora way I don't look much like a lover Yet I say her love words over Often when I'm all alone Mi amore mi Corazon Nights when she knew where I'd ride She would listen for my spurs Fling the big door open wide Raise them laughin' eyes of hers And my heart would not stop beating When I heard her tender greeting Whispered soft for me alone Mi amore mi Corazon Moonlight in the patio Old Senora nodding near Me and Juana talking low So the Madre couldn't hear How those hours would go a-flyin' And too soon I'd hear her sighin' In her little sorry tone Adios mi Corazon But one time I had to fly For a foolish gamblin' fight, And we said a swift goodbye In that black unlucky night When I'd loosed her arms from clingin' With her words the hoofs kept ringin' As I galloped north alone Adios mi Corazon Never seen her since that night I can't cross the Line, you know She was Mex and I was white Like as not it's better so Yet I've always sort of missed her Since that last wild night I kissed her Left her heart and lost my own Adios mi Corazon |
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09 Sep 10 - 11:51 PM (#2983658) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,richard been trying to get a copy of a 78rpm record that I bought in the UK in the 1950s that had this song on one side and In 1992 on the flip. Does anyone remember them or who sang them? |
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09 Sep 10 - 11:55 PM (#2983659) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,richard "The Little Red Caboose behind the Train / In 1992" - does anyone remember or have the 78rpm that came out in the 50s/60s? I bought it in the UK but lost it. who was the group that sang the songs? [Could be The Rocky Mountaineers, on Columbia (F.B. 1249), which came out in 1935? See the Internet Archive for side A and side B. -- A Mudelf.] |
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10 Sep 10 - 03:33 AM (#2983734) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Sandy Mc Lean It is impossible for me to pick a single cowboy/western song or singer. The one that I sing most often is Woody's Philadelphia Lawyer but Marty Robbins' collection of Gunfighter Ballads sets the bar! Then you have the old Western movie stars like Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter, Rex Allan, etc. Wilf Carter (aka Montana Slim) lived the life about which he sang and to a degree Ian Tyson as well. There was just too much great stuff to pick a single preference! Roy Rogers was my cowboy hero when I was a kid and he holds the distinction of being twice inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame, once as himself and once as a founding member of the Sons Of The Pioneers. So much great stuff over the years but sadly there are few recording artists today who come even close and that is a pity! |
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10 Sep 10 - 04:02 AM (#2983746) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: kendall Probably the saga of Billy Venero. It was in my high school English textbook. |
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10 Sep 10 - 05:27 AM (#2983778) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST Cowboy music and poetry is alive and well today. There are many festivals that feature these performers. and the Western Jubilee Recording company http://www.westernjubilee.com/ features some fine examples..Don Edwards and many more. One such festival is in December...www.Montereycowboy.org which is coming up Dec 10-11-12 2010 or the National Cowboy Gathering in Elko on Jan. 26-29 2011. There are some video and audio recordings on the website www.westernfolklife.org. (see cybercast) By far my favorite song is http://www.nightriderslament.com/ [Night Rider's Lament] by Michael Burton. |
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10 Sep 10 - 06:04 AM (#2983795) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Henryp Doney Gal A cowboy's life is a weary thing For it's rope and brand and ride and sing Yes, day or night, in the rain and hail He'll stay with his dogies out on the trail It's rain or shine, sleet or snow, Me and my Doney Gal are on the go Yes, rain or shine, sleet or snow, Me and my Doney Gal are bound to go from Our Singing Country, John and Alan Lomax |
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10 Sep 10 - 10:27 AM (#2983913) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: frogprince Another case of a vintage thread revived in an off-the-wall way, but I really enjoyed reading through this. A lot of songs I love were cited. I don't know that anyone mentioned "Colorado Trail"; Anne Hills, Cindy Mangsen, and Priscilla Herdman have a recording that I consider just achin' beautiful. The first time I ever fell in love with a song, it was "The Strawberry Roan" as sung by Gene Autry. About 1969, I discovered Cisco Houston's recording of "Zebra Dun". A few years ago THIS came together in my head. |
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10 Sep 10 - 11:29 AM (#2983961) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Desi C How about some of the Sons Of The Pioneers, recordings, Tumbling Tumbleweeds, (Ghost) Riders in the Sky, etc.? Shenandoah (Across The Wide Missouri) is good. A Four-Legged Friend, Roy Rogers. Banks of the Old Pontchartrain, Old Log Train, both Hank Wiliams. Streets of Laredo, Marty Robbins and El Paso. Good luck, need to revive many of the old western songs Desi C |
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10 Sep 10 - 06:44 PM (#2984223) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Art Thieme Some that I sang often and/or put on records: Billy Vanero The State of Illinois (Move Your Family Westward) Cowboy's Barbara Allen (from Del Bray in Cheyenne-1962) Blue Mountain Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie The Cherokee Queen by Carl Oglesby--via Utah Phillips) Gonna Leave Old Texas Now The Big Combine--by Jock Coleman-1919-from Glenn Ohrlin The Red River Shore The Portland County Jail The Wilderness Road--Jimmy Morris Driftwood The Kansas Cyclone Night Rider's Lament--by Michael Burton Sioux Indians When I Was a Cowboy The Goodnight-Loving Trail by Utah Phillips Colorado Trail Ridin' Down the Canyon Zack the Mormon Engineer East Texas Red--by Woody Guthrie Blowin’ Down This Road Nine Hundred Miles The Santa Fe Trail The Cowboy Fireman (from Mac McClintock) I Want to Be in Brooklyn (For the Blackouts in the Spring) by Craig Johnson |
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10 Sep 10 - 06:58 PM (#2984228) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Andy Jackson I just started a new thread ( American Museum in Britain) and just below I see this thread. I rest my case!! |
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10 Sep 10 - 07:01 PM (#2984230) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Art Thieme Hey, I forgot one I did all the time: The Ballad of 'Dobe Bill (learned from a Folkways LP by Cisco Houston) This was printed by John Lomax in his book as "The Killer" Art Thieme |
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10 Sep 10 - 07:47 PM (#2984247) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: John on the Sunset Coast What day is it? Tomorrow the favorite song will be different. What is the last song I heard? That is probably my favorite...for now. Bar none (no that's not a ranch) The Sons of the Pioneers is my favorite singer. My laptop contains the contents of six LPs and and twelve CDs of SOP, Roy Rogers (w/ and w/o SOP) and a Bob Nolan solo CD. I have culled duplicate recordings, but have as many as five different renditions of some songs. This are from different iterations of the group over the years, radio transcriptions, etc. iTunes tells me I have 157 unique recordings that if played straight through would take over six-and-a-half hour to complete. There are are many current and recent singers of the genre. Don Edwards, Michal Martin Murphey, Brenn Hill, a reconstituted Riders of the Purple Sage, Dave Stamey, Justis and the Montanas and the late Chris LeDoux come quickly to mind. They are every bit as good as the performers of the 30s and 40s, and have better technology. Too, there are scores of amateurs and semi-pros, often quite good and original, that we only hear as ancillary acts at festivals. Cowboy Music Forever! |
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10 Sep 10 - 08:11 PM (#2984259) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Q (Frank Staplin) A Border Affair (Spanish is the Loving Tongue). Or I could list a bunch, Art Thieme's for a start. |
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10 Sep 10 - 10:07 PM (#2984297) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Midchuck That's funny. I was reading this thread and wondered why I didn't mention any of the great songs on Tom Russell's "Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs" CD. Then I noticed that I last posted to this thread in 2003. That CD was released in early '04. Duh. Mudcat messes up your time sense. "Tonight We Ride" is one of my favorite songs ever. Joyfully antiheroic. I'm also very fond of "No Telling," by Linda Thompson, which Tom made into a cowboy song by changing just a few words (with her blessing, as I understand it). I'd have sung it at Kendall and Jacqui's wedding if I'd been there and nobody had suppressed me. There is also a wonderful cover of "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts," done by Russell, Joe Ely, and Eliza Gilkyson performing as a committee; one of "East Texas Red," and one of Marty Robbins's "El Paso," which is probably the only cover that doesn't really measure up - but then the original came out at an impressionable time in my life, and I'm sentimental about it. And Tom didn't have Grady Martin. Also, two settings by Tom of Paul Zarzyski poems, "Bucking Horse Moon" and "All This Way for the Short Ride," and a very funny song about Edward Abbey, using the tune of "Buffalo Skinners." My ten CDs for a desert island would include this one, "Cowboyography" and "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs." That leaves only seven for all other genres. I could be in trouble. Peter |
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10 Sep 10 - 11:02 PM (#2984310) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: katlaughing frogprince, did you post that a few years ago? I started reading it to my Rog and he recognised it immediately. Well-written! We'd miss out, big time, without a mention of Mudcatter, Rex's, Jack Thorp's Songs of the Cowboys. It is a wondrous collection done on period instruments with some real favourites. I love them all, all that Art Thieme has done, and all that my dad raised us on including Billy Venero, Zebra Dun, Little Joe the Wrangler, and a bunch more! |
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11 Sep 10 - 01:01 AM (#2984344) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Slag Not mentioned thus far: Pennsylvania Pal You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma The Master's Call The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde Blue Shadows Curly Joe from Idaho Cattle Call The Ballad of Irving (The Hundred and Twenty-Second Fastest Gun in the West) (Which is a spoof on Lorne Greene's "Ringo") |
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11 Sep 10 - 01:52 AM (#2984356) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Amos Buffalo Skinners and Diamond Joe also. High-Chinned Bob. You know this thread was running strong in 2000. That was ten years ago. How'd I get glued to this Mudcat cayuse for ten damn years??? A |
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11 Sep 10 - 02:36 AM (#2984367) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Stilly River Sage Ed McCurdy singing "The Strawberry Roan" is about as good as it gets. Unless it is just about anybody singing "Streets of Laredo" (see all of the discussions of the roots of this song scattered around Mudcat). |
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13 Sep 10 - 06:42 PM (#2986130) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: frogprince SRS, have you heard Amos sing cowboy-type stuff; don't remember right now if The Strawberry Roan was included in what I've heard linked, but I'll wager Amos wouldn't do it wrong; he has to have hoss shit on the one boot and longhorn shit on the tother. |
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13 Sep 10 - 09:38 PM (#2986225) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: olddude Art Thieme doing Billy Vanero |
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13 Sep 10 - 10:55 PM (#2986261) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Beer Sweet Baby James |
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14 Sep 10 - 02:26 AM (#2986321) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST Check out some of the albums by Ernie Sites http://erniesites.com/index2.shtml Eddie1 (between laptops cos my last one was stolen) |
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14 Sep 10 - 06:13 AM (#2986422) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Slag Yes SRS, The Strawberry Roan is the quintessential Western song. It captures the dialect, history, and status of the American cowboy. It's a real slice of life. |
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14 Sep 10 - 11:31 AM (#2986622) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: MGM·Lion I have just put one of my two favourites, The Santa Fe Trail, and am planning to put the other, I'm Bound to Follow the Longhorn Cows, on my YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/mgmyer OK ~~ so I'm not a cowboy. I'm not even American. I have spent a total of approx 12 days of my life in the West [California, Utah, Arizona, Nevada], riding around in a Discovery America coach. Want to make something of it? How fast can you draw!? ~Michael~ |
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14 Sep 10 - 12:36 PM (#2986660) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: topical tom When It's Roundup Time in Texas and the Cactus is in Bloom, [=When the Bloom Is on the Sage?] especially as sung by Suzy Bogguss. |
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14 Sep 10 - 04:30 PM (#2986793) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: chazkratz Let's see--there's the theme song from "Blazing Saddles" and "I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)". And seriously, has anyone mentioned "Don't Fence Me In" or Woody's "The Range of the Buffalo"? Charles |
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14 Sep 10 - 05:38 PM (#2986824) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Artful Codger Alla en el Rancho Grande (Lorenzo Barcelata, 1925) When It's Night Time in Nevada (Pascoe, Dumage, Clint, 1931) I'm a Texas Cowboy (trad.) Keep Smiling, Old Pal (trad.) Most of my favorites are the REAL cowboy songs, from before the radio/movie/rhinestone cowboy days, but they're the usual suspects, already listed. Elsewise, my favorites are (false modesty aside) old cowboy-era poems I put tunes to myself, like: Batchin' (Charles Badger Clark, 1915) Coyote (Bret Harte, 1869) Cowboy's Wild Song to His Herd (Wesley Beggs, 1912) Old Buck's Ghost (Frank Benton, 1903) Disheartened Ranger (M.B. Smith, ca. 1874) Night Herding Song (Harry Stephens, 1909) The Carter Family sang an uninspiring version of "Cowboy's Wild Song to His Herd," and you can find several tunes to "Night Herding Song"--notably, Don Edwards does it--, but I'm unaware of previous settings for the other poems. I've set some others, but for me personally, they're second-stringers, not as likely to burst forth from the shower unless I'm trying to refresh my memory of them. Yup, that's my criterion for favorites: which are rusty from the shower? I used to groan at "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie" till I ran across a great old tune for it in a minor mode. Now I sing it interleaving the two tunes, and it's become a shower song. (Of course, by the time I'm finished, so is the hot water.) I've also come to enjoy "Home on the Range," "Red River Valley" and some other songs I was conditioned to snub as a boy--they're really quite nice once you get past the done-to-death bits. |
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14 Sep 10 - 05:41 PM (#2986826) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: olddude Art Thieme - The Santa Fe Trail or Art Thieme - Cowboy's Barbara Allen or Art Thieme - Blue Mountain (I am kinda prejudiced) :-) |
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14 Sep 10 - 05:49 PM (#2986833) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: olddude And this one really presses my buttons. It is our very own Amos doing My Sweet Wyoming Home Superb Amos Sweet Wyoming Home |
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14 Sep 10 - 06:48 PM (#2986860) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: chazkratz Oh, one note: Mike Iverson, who started this thread, isn't one to blow his own horn but the guy is a great banjo player and has perhaps the best free banjo instruction site on the web, loaded with tunes with both sound files and tabs: http://www.bluesageband.com/Tabs.html Charles |
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15 Sep 10 - 03:11 AM (#2987023) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST I had an old 78 about 50 years ago of a song called "The Covered Wagon Lullaby" and it's driving me wild trying to remember who recorded it. Do any of you cowboys know? Was it Tex Ritter? Meanwhile, Arlo Guthrie does a nice little number called "Lay Down, Little Dogies" which I think he wrote himself. Happy Trails, Ye All |
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15 Sep 10 - 08:02 AM (#2987125) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Desi C Cool Water by Sons Of The Pioneers is a favourite |
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15 Sep 10 - 02:05 PM (#2987374) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: John on the Sunset Coast Guest @3:11AM asked about The Covered Wagon Lullaby. A quick Google found a YouTube video from Oz. Also, Josef Marais, international folk singer of the 1940s and '50s recorded a song by that title I don't know, but this may not be a song of the American west, and I don't Know where this guest is from...one of the problems of being a guest. Try this & good luck. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1rIXZWIm0 The Barry Sisters of Australia. |
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30 Jan 20 - 10:57 PM (#4031261) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Joe Offer Somebody sent me a link to a nice page of cowboy songs: |
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31 Jan 20 - 12:52 AM (#4031267) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: punkfolkrocker When I was a little kid, one of the first ever records my parents gave me was a red vinyl single of Roy Rogers "A Cowboy Needs a Horse".. I've never been able to find it on a CD [though it's a while since I last searched..] but it sticks in my memory as one of my favourites... |
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31 Jan 20 - 04:23 AM (#4031294) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle and a cow presumably... |
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31 Jan 20 - 04:45 AM (#4031297) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,henryp Three that come to mind; Doney Gal sung by Jeff Davis The Texas Rangers sung by Jeff Davis The Goodnight-Loving Trail sung by Finest Kind |
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31 Jan 20 - 06:20 AM (#4031315) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: gillymor A couple I've been singing for a long time which feature plenty of gunplay are "Me and My Uncle" (written by John Phillips and covered by The Grateful Dead and John Denver and many others) and Marty Robbin's "Big Iron". Also "I am Going to the West" (excellent versions by Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin and by Connie Dover). "A Cowboy's Hard Times" by Bill Staines (Connie Dover did a nice cover). "Hills of Mexico" (aka "Mexican Cowboy") my favorite version by The Renegades. Willie Watson also does it well. My all-time favorite is probably "Sweet Betsy From Pike". "Jack o' Diamonds", Connie Dover does a version in which she seems to have grafted "Rye Whiskey" onto "Wagoners Lad" or perhaps she found it like that. |
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31 Jan 20 - 06:39 AM (#4031321) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: clueless don punkfolkrocker, I didn't realize that Roy Rogers recorded "A Cowboy Needs a Horse". I'm familiar with the song from an old Disney video, first from seeing it on the old Disney show on TV when I was a boy, then later on one of my daughter's Disney Sing-Along tapes. You can watch/hear it on YouTube . Don |
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31 Jan 20 - 07:04 AM (#4031327) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: gillymor That is a very interesting site, Joe. Another one I like- "Diamond Joe" (the one that starts "There is a man you'll hear about,"). Tom Rush does it well. |
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31 Jan 20 - 07:35 AM (#4031335) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: gillymor Also, Skip Gorman's version of the Carter Family's "Railroading on the Great Divide". |
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31 Jan 20 - 08:11 AM (#4031337) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Starship To PFR: A Cowboy Needs a Horse sung by Roy Rogers on YouTube. Have fun. |
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31 Jan 20 - 09:12 AM (#4031347) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,HiLo I don't know if they qualify as folk songs but any of the later solo albums of Ian Tyson are true cowboy music, especially his album "Cowboyology". Just wonderful stuff and Ian really is a cowboy. |
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31 Jan 20 - 03:09 PM (#4031387) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: gillymor Summer Wages is still a fun song to sing and I suppose it would qualify as a western song. I like the Ian and Sylvia version best. |
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31 Jan 20 - 09:12 PM (#4031457) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Jerome Clark Ian Tyson is surely the greatest cowboy balladeer of them all. "Old Cheyenne" is among the most powerful Western folk (or folk-based) songs ever. And by the way. the album is Cowboyography, not Cowboyology. Aside from that, "I Ride an Old Paint," "Streets of Laredo," and "Blue Mountain." Not to mention Roy Robinson's fabulous "The Cowboy's Song," as recorded by Don Edwards. |
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01 Feb 20 - 06:26 AM (#4031510) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Dtm Empty Saddles in the Old Corral.- Slim Whitman (Ghost) Riders in the Sky - Marty Robbins |
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04 Feb 20 - 03:06 AM (#4032081) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: The Sandman Jimmie Rodgers singing "My Rough and Rowdy Ways" on YouTube |
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04 Feb 20 - 03:33 PM (#4032257) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: The Sandman Bill Haley singing "Tennessee Border" on YouTube - [Lyrics] |
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04 Feb 20 - 05:20 PM (#4032268) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Donuel thanx ol'dude |
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04 Feb 20 - 06:55 PM (#4032274) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: PHJim Ian Tyson's version of "I'm A Rambler, I'm A Gambler" Gene Autry's "I'm a Cow Poke Pokin' Along" |
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04 Feb 20 - 07:31 PM (#4032276) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: pdq Ian Tyson was at his best on "Cowboyography" (note spelling). If you have that one, "Old Corrals & Sagebrush" should be on your shortlist. Next would be "I Outgrew the Wagon" or maybe "Eighteen Inches of Rain". I believe Ian did "Summer Wages" at least three or four times over the years, but the original Ian and Sylvia version is still tops in my book. |
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05 Feb 20 - 07:26 AM (#4032326) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,henryp Someday Soon by Ian Tyson is based on the story of his romance with Sylvia Fricker. Are these the original lyrics? Source: LyricFind lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. My parents cannot stand him 'cause he works the rodeo They say he's not your kind; He'll leave you crying If he asks, I'll follow him down the toughest road to hoe Someday soon, going with him, someday soon When he visits me, my pa ain't got one good word to say Got a hunch he was as wild back in his early days Mr Fricker worked in the white goods department of the Eaton store in Chatham, Ontario. On Friday nights he would go to a bar with my Uncle Peter. Uncle Peter said all he talked about was the 'pseudo-cowboy' who had run off with his daughter. |
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05 Feb 20 - 11:26 AM (#4032362) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Jerome Clark Ian Tyson's version of "Rambler Gambler" towers above any other I've ever heard. It still moves me decades after it first passed through my ears. I believe he learned it from Alan Lomax's LP "Texas Folk Songs." It bears mentioning that his Western originals are realistic songs, about working lives rather than gunfighting ones or (as in the cowboy-pop likes of Gene Autry and associates) the alleged romance of the range.. The violent "Four Rode By," another of my favorites of his, is not a cowboy ballad but a true story about a crime spree in 1879 British Columbia. In "Someday Soon" the line, though frequently misquoted, is "roughest row to hoe," not "road." Rows, not roads, are hoed, and Tyson is a careful writer. Though it may have been true at one time, it's been a long while since Tyson was a "pseudo-cowboy." |
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05 Feb 20 - 11:40 AM (#4032363) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: gillymor I remember reading that Tyson set out to be a rodeo rider but wound up as a songwriter/performer early on due to a broken ankle. |
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05 Feb 20 - 12:40 PM (#4032377) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Stilly River Sage Nearly 10 years on and my top songs are still the same, though there are many songs that are pretty darned good. |
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05 Feb 20 - 01:35 PM (#4032389) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,HiLo Yes, Gillymor, he did set out to be a cowboy, took up the guitar whilst recovering from an injury. Mary MacCaslin did some great cowboy songs. Her is an old album that I constantly go back to. |
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05 Feb 20 - 01:58 PM (#4032397) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: gillymor Thanks, HiLo. I'd forgotten about Mary MacCaslin. I'd number her "Way Out West in Kansas" among my favorites but she does a good job on a lot of the Western songs. Here's Pharis and Jason Romero, one of my favorite duos, doing "Long Gone Out West Blues". They're also world-renowned banjo makers. It ain't fair. Long Gone Out West Blues |
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05 Feb 20 - 03:08 PM (#4032411) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,henryp When he was in New York, Ian Tyson was drafted. Thanks to his 'rodeo knee' he was classified as 4F - not fit for military duty. "Otherwise I would have been in Fort Dix and shipped off to Asia." |
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05 Feb 20 - 03:52 PM (#4032425) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: The Sandman Goebel Reeves in the film "The Silver Trail" (1937) |
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05 Feb 20 - 03:55 PM (#4032426) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: The Sandman Goebel Reeves--"H.O.B.O. Calling" |
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05 Feb 20 - 04:28 PM (#4032432) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: The Sandman Vernon Dalhart singing "Hallelujah! I'm a Bum" on YouTube |
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05 Feb 20 - 06:16 PM (#4032449) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Hilo Why would Ian Tyson be drafted, he was not Americans, to my knowledge, never lived in America, Albertan to his head and toes. |
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06 Feb 20 - 03:12 AM (#4032477) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,henryp Any male Canadians admitted to the US for immigration were subject to the draft. Ian Tyson appeared to be unaware that he could have avoided it by merely going home. Ian Tyson was born in Victoria, Vancouver Island, and grew up in Duncan B.C.. He suffered a rodeo accident in 1956 and learned to play guitar while in hospital. He played his first solo coffeehouse gig in 1957 while studying at the Vancouver School of Art. He then moved to Toronto where he met Sylvia in July 1959. To get more concert bookings they had to move to New York, where in 1961 Ian wrote Four Strong Winds in the office of their manager Albert Grossman. |
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06 Feb 20 - 03:40 AM (#4032484) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,HiLo Thanks Henryp, I was not aware of that, |
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06 Feb 20 - 03:51 AM (#4032490) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Murpholly I am still searching for the rest of the words of You're as pretty as a palomino pony You're a gal a man could go for mighty strong But the cattle must be tended and the fences must be mended So I reckon I'll be moseying along. Any help anybody. [See "Moseyin' Along" -- A Mudelf] |
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06 Feb 20 - 11:41 AM (#4032552) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,Guest Mike Rogers I'm not sure that all of these are folk songs but they're fine songs anyway. A small selection from Marty Robbins: El Paso Big Iron Old Red A Border Affair (Spanish is the Loving Tongue) (Badger Clark) Spanish Johnny (Paul Siebel) Ballad of a Runaway Horse (Ballad of an Absent Mare) written by Leonard Cohen, superbly sung by Emmylou Harris) Pancho and Lefty (Townes van Zandt) |
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06 Feb 20 - 11:05 PM (#4032677) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Mike in Brunswick Lots of good songs are mentioned here, as is often the case in threads of this type. My favorites include The Goodnight-Loving Trail, Me and My Uncle (Judy Collins did a nice version of this one), and just about anything by Bob Wills. Also, Si Kahn's Queen of the Cowboy Café and Dave Carter's When I Go. Mike |
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07 Feb 20 - 09:38 AM (#4032749) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: punkfolkrocker Thanks mudcat mates.. Don't have time to read all this now, but the thread is a keeper for future reference.. I went through a contemporary alt country cowboy bands phase about 10 to 15 years ago, but not listened to the CDs for a long while.. Back in the mid 90s I picked up a newly recorded double CD set of cowboy songs recorded by an older American or Canadian guy. Just his voice and acoustic guitar. Very traditional.. Can't remember who now.. The CD has been boxed up at my mum's house for 20 years... |
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07 Feb 20 - 10:18 AM (#4032757) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,HiLo Hi Pfr..could it have been Wilf Carter ? |
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07 Feb 20 - 10:24 AM (#4032760) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: punkfolkrocker HiLo - probably not.. in my hazy memory he was a middle aged to older singer, and the double CD set was recorded sometime in the 1990s...??? |
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07 Feb 20 - 09:19 PM (#4032883) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Stewie They don't come much better than this one: The Last Wagon [Lyrics] The entire album, 'The Crooked Trail to Holbrook', is a joy. --Stewie. |
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07 Feb 20 - 09:51 PM (#4032887) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: Joe Offer The Slim Critchlow Album ('The crooked trail to Holbrook') is available from Smithsonian Folkways, with downloadable notes. The recording is available on Spotify and YouTube. It's a terrific album. -Joe- |
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10 Feb 20 - 07:23 PM (#4033491) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: PHJim punkfolkrocker, Could it have been Merrick Jarrett? He recorded "Songs Of The Old West" and "The Old Chisholm Trail . Traditional Songs Of The Old West". Merrick was a Canadian folk singer/collector who had a grand knowledge of old cowboy songs. He knew everybody worth knowing in Canadian folk music and everyone worth knowing knew him. He played at the very first Mariposa Folk Festival in 1961 and I had the pleasure to share a workshop stage with him at a later Mariposa in the nineties and a number of living room jams at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, both talented musicians . We lost Merrick in 2005. |
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14 Feb 20 - 11:58 PM (#4034338) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,henryp Lay Down, Little Dogies, lay down We've both got to sleep on the cold, cold ground The wind's blowin' colder and the sun's goin' down Lay down, little dogies, lay down I can hear this being sung by a cowboy, but it was actually written by Woody Guthrie. |
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15 Feb 20 - 05:15 AM (#4034354) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,akenaton Remember buying Marty Robbins "Gunfighter ballads and trail songs" when it first appeared. I thought it was great, and the backing did not seem incongruous at that time. |
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15 Feb 20 - 06:52 AM (#4034368) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: gillymor One of the best recently-written western songs I've heard- The Cypress Hills by John Reichsman and the Jaybirds. Re Marty Robbins "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs", Grady Martin's guitar licks and the backup singing, reminiscent of the Sons of the Pioneers, are a huge part of those recordings with Marty's excellent voice at center stage, of course. |
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15 Feb 20 - 07:37 PM (#4034480) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: pdq Backup vocals on the Marty Robbins' record were by the three Glaser Brothers, sort of a poor man's Jordanaires. Thomas Paul Glaser changed his name to Tompall Glaser and was part of the Outlaw Movement of the 1970s along with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, David Allan Coe and Jerry Jeff Walker. |
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15 Feb 20 - 09:51 PM (#4034495) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: gillymor I loved to hear the Glaser Brothers sing together, Jim Glaser was an incredible harmony singer. Not necessarily a western song but here they are doing Loving Her Was Easier than Anything I'll Ever do Again |
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16 Feb 20 - 12:15 AM (#4034504) Subject: RE: Your favorite cowboy/western folk songs From: GUEST,henryp Cowboy Man by Lyle Lovett He lost an argument with a three year old Charolais bull. |