VARIOUS ARTISTS 'When I Was a Cowboy, Vol. 1'
The Yazoo label has done a beautiful job in preserving & presenting this great sampling of songs of the west, most of them recorded commercially in the 1920s. There are 23 recordings here by the key cowboy artists--Jules Allen, Harry McClintock, Carl Sprague, Ken Maynard, Arthur Miles, Dick Devall, Billie Maxwell, etc., plus some I losely related southerners (Tylor's Ky. Boys,. Watts & Wilson, Lonesome Luke etc). They well document the romance, strength, and especially the independent spirit of the early cowboys.
Artists:
- CARTWRIGHT BROTHERS
- EDWARD L. CRAIN
- JULES ALLEN
- CARL SPRAGUE
- MARTIN ROBERTS
- KEN MAYNARD
- CROWDER BROTHERS
- HARRY McCLINTOCK
- PATT PATTERSON AND HIS CHAMPION REP RIDERS
- ARKANSAS WOODCHOPPER
- LONESOME LUKE AND HIS FARM HANDS
- ARTHUR MILES
- POWDER RIVER JACK AND KITTY LEE
- BILLIE MAXWELL
- TAYLOR'S KENTUCKY BOYS
- DICK DEVALL
- WATTS AND WILSON
Track Listing:
- UTAH CARROLL
- BANDIT COLE YOUNGER
- BILL WAS A TEXAS LAD
- LONG SIDE THE SANTE FE TRAIL
- THE MORMON COWBOY
- THE ROUNDUP IN THE SPRING
- THE LONE STAR TRAIL
- WILD WEST RAMBLER
- SAM BASS
- THE WANDERING COWBOY
- TEXAS RANGER
- I'M A TEXAS COWBOY
- THE LAST LONGHORN
- WILD HOG IN THE WOODS
- LONELY COWBOY - PART 1
- LONELY COWBOY - PART 2
- GOODBYE OLD PAINT
- TYING A KNOT IN THE DEVILS TAIL
- HAUNTED HUNTER
- THE DIXIE COWBOY
- OUT ON THE LONE STAR COW TRAIL
- THE COWBOY'S LAMENT
- THE SPORTING COWBOY