Cisco Houston - Cisco Houston Collection 1944-61 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Cisco Houston was a folk singer and songwriter, brought up in California, who was a close associate of Woody Guthrie, whom he met while working as an actor in Hollywood in the late '30s. They started travelling together, playing at migrant workers' camps and promoting unionism and workers' rights. Album Tracks 1. Hard Ain't It Hard 2. More Pretty Gals Than One 3. Sally Don't You Grieve 4. Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way 5. Mule Skinner Blues 6. 900 Miles 7. Glory 8. Night Herding Song 9. Blue Yodel 10. Drunken Rat 11. Roving Gambler 12. Philadelphia Lawyer 13. Oh Willy My Darling 14. Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail 15. Ham and Eggs 16. Midnight Special 17. Yellow Gal 18. Grey Goose 19. Stewball 20. Alabama Bound 21. The Rambler (I Don't Mind Marrying) 22. On Top of Old Smokey 23. Sowing on the Mountain 24. Fire Down Below 25. Crawdad Song 26. Chisholm Trail 27. Diamond Joe 1. I Ride An Old Paint 2. Little Joe, the Wrangler 3. The Dying Cowboy 4. Stewball 5. Trouble in Mind 6. Sweet Betsy from Pike 7. 900 Miles 8. 'Getting Up' Holler 9. The Roamer 10. Wreck of the '97 11. Hobo Bill 12. The Great American Bum 13. The Brave Engineer 14. The Gambler 15. The Rambler 16. Railroad Bill 17. Worried Man Blues 18. Hard Travelin 19. Stagolee 20. The John B. Sails 21. The Frozen Logger 22. Turtle Dove 23. True Love on My Mind 24. Dink's Song 25. Hound Dog 26. Gypsy Davy 27. Intoxicated Rat 28. The Girl in the Wood 1. Crawdad Song 2. Go Tell Aunt Rhody 3. Froggy Went A-Courtin' 4. Take a Whiff on Me 5. Bad Lee Brown 6. The Golden Vanity 7. Cumberland Gap 8. Sourwood Mountain 9. Old Time Religion 10. Columbus Stockade 11. Johnny Hard 12. Foggy Mountain Top 13. Bury Me Beneath the Willow 14. Skip to My Lou 15. Ezekiel Saw the Wheel 16. Ra