Fifteen performers sing, boast, tell stories, holler, and recite poetry on 26 tracks that portray the life and times of honest, hard-working cowboys. Features performers from many backgrounds with a wide variety of musical styles. Includes Pete Seeger’s Home on the Range, Cisco Houston’s Little Joe and the Wrangler, Woody Guthrie’s Get Along Little Dogies, several old tales from the range, including Chisholm Tale and Jesse James, and Rosalie Sorrells’s version of Gene Autry’s 1943 hit There’s an Empty Cot in the Bunkhouse. “Abundant evidence of the rich legacy…of real cowboys provided by their music and poetry.” — Dirty Linen
Morning Grub Holler – Harry Jackson
Round-Up Cook – Harry Jackson
Chisholm Trail – Tex-I-An Boys
Whoopie-Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Dogies – Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston
Little Joe, the Wrangler – Cisco Houston
Little Joe, the Wrangler’s Sister Nell – Harry Jackson
Utah Carl – Harry K. McClintock
Put Your Little Foot – Tex-I-An Boys
Trail to Mexico – Peter Lafarge
Las Chapparreras – Peter Hurd
Buffalo Skinners – Woody Guthrie
Zebra Dun – Ray Reed
Some Cowboy Brag Talk – Harry Jackson
Horse Wrangler – Roger Welsch
Strawberry Roan – Harry Jackson
Texian Boys – John a. Lomax, JR
Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea – Leadbelly
Jesse James (Leadbelly’s Version) – Woody Guthrie
Home on the Range – Pete Seeger
(There’s An) Empty Cot in the Bunkhouse Tonight – Rosalie Sorrels
(When It’s) Springtime in the Rockies – Leadbelly
Lone Star Trail – Dave Fredrickson
Rodeo Hand – Peter Lafarge
Philadelphia Lawyer – Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston
The Dying Cowboy – Cisco Houston
The Devil Made Texas – Herman Nye