Cisco Houston - Folkways Years 1944-61 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Cisco Houston's smooth, spirited voice croons songs from the railways, mines, and the open range on this collection of his favorite ballads. In the tradition of composing songs to tell stories, Houston also includes a tall tale he wrote, InchGreat July Jones.Inch

Cisco Houston's first solo album on Folkways Records represents a small portion of the artist's repertoire of American folk music. Extensive liner notes (complete with a glossary of cowboy slang such as Inchdogie A calf that lost it's mammy and whose daddy has run off with another cowInch) accompany this collection of tunes of the lonely cowboy and his guitar.

Railroaders and cowboys share a need for music to bolster their spirits during long days and to celebrate night's freedom. Cisco Houston sings ballads from the range and from the lonesome track, where Inchthe drivers are still rolling, and the gamblers and work gangs, boomers and bums, are highballing it out of nowhere, nine hundred miles from home.Inch CD combines original LP along with FW02022 Cowboy Ballads.