Track Listing

1. Utah Carroll - Cartwright Brothers
2. Bandit Cole Younger - Edward L. Crain
3. Bill Was a Texas Lad - J.D. Farley
4. 'Longside the Santa Fe Trail - Jules Allen
5. Mormon Cowboy - Carl T. Sprague
6. Roundup in the Spring
7. Lone Star Trail - Ken Maynard
8. Wild West Rambler - Crowder Brothers
9. Sam Bass - Harry McClintock
10. Wandering Cowboy - Pat Patterson & His Champion Rep Riders
11. Texas Ranger - Cartwright Brothers
12. I'm a Texas Cowboy - Arkansas Woodchopper
13. Last Longhorn - Carl T. Sprague
14. Wild Hog in the Woods - Lonesome Luke & His Farm Hands
15. Lonely Cowboy, Pt. 1 - Arthur Miles
16. Lonely Cowboy, Pt. 2 - Arthur Miles
17. Goodbye Old Paint - Harry McClintock
18. Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail
19. Haunted Hunter - Billie Maxwell
20. Dixie Cowboy - Taylor's Kentucky Boys
21. Out on the Lone Star Cow Trail - Dick Devall
22. Cowboy's Lament - Ken Maynard
23. Sporting Cowboy - Watts & Wilson

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #228640 in Music
• Released on: 1996-09-24
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

The genuine article
Raw and unaffected singing from the 1920's, with sparse musical accompaniment, sometimes just a lone guitar. Excellent sound, considering the age of the recordings.

This is seminal music, on a par with the greatest blues recordings of this era, not only in historic importance, but also in sheer originality, enjoyment, and virtuosity. It's roots music, and in it you can still hear an echo of even earlier British origins, for example, in the droning fiddle accompaniment on two tracks by the Cartwright Brothers.

The musical culture represented on this disc is not just the precursor of all that has happened since in country music, but is an important corner-stone in the subsequent development of popular music as a whole. Where, for example, would Elvis have been without it?

Here's an artist listing which matches the Amazon-provided track listing above (so you can compare this compilation with any others you might own):

1.Cartwright Brothers 2.Crain, Edward L.

3.Farley, J.D. 4.Allen, Jules 5.Sprague, Carl 6.Martin & Roberts 7.Maynard, Ken 8.Crowder Brothers 9.McClintock, Harry 10.Patterson, Patt & His Champion Rep... 11.Cartwright Brothers 12.Arkansas Woodchopper 13.Sprague, Carl 14.Lonesome Luke & His Farm Hands 15.Miles, Arthur 16.Miles, Arthur 17.McClintock, Harry 18.Powder River Jack / Lee, Kitty 19.Maxwell, Billie 20.Taylor's Kentucky Boys 21.Devall, Dick 22.Maynard, Ken 23.Watts & Wilson

Volume two in the series (also available from Amazon) is every bit as good. Enjoy.

Good Old Cowboy Songs

I really liked this one but not as much as others. Someone suggested I get this for the yodeling and there's lots of good yodels on this CD.

Of course a lot of this is supposed to be more traditional cowboy music than the songs of the up tempo western swing tunes we're more accustomed to. And for that it's really good. But, because of that, it tends to drag at times.
But then some of these tunes may need more listening to really appreciate the flavor of the music.

I guess that's all I can say.

Roger Ashton