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"Goodbye Old Paint" is a traditional Western song that was created by black cowboy Charley Willis. [1] The song was first collected by songwriter N. Howard "Jack" Thorp in his 1921 book Songs of the Cowboys. [2] Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [3]
The song has been called a modern-day classic, and is said to be known by just about everyone who's worked on a ranch. [1] Michael Martin Murphey has called it the "Mr. Bojangles" of cowboy music. [5] Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [6]
The earliest written version of the song was published in John Lomax's Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads in 1910. It would first be recorded by Carl T. Sprague in 1926, and was released on a 10" single through Victor Records. [9] The following year, the melody and lyrics were collected and published in Carl Sandburg's American Songbag.
The Colorado Trail (Roud 6695) is a traditional American cowboy song, collected and published in 1927 by Carl Sandburg in his American Songbag. [1] Sandburg says that he learned the song from Dr. T. L. Chapman, of Duluth, Minnesota, who heard it from a badly injured cowboy being treated in his hospital.
Cisco Houston Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie (1961, Vanguard VRS 9089) and later on Folk Song and Minstrelsy (1963, Vanguard RL-7624) Eric Von Schmidt Folk Blues of Eric Von Schmidt (1963, Prestige 7717) Carl Sandburg Cowboy Songs and Negro Spirituals (1964, Decca DL 9105) Jim Kweskin Relax Your Mind (1965, Vanguard VSD-79188)
I Ride an Old Paint is a traditional American cowboy song, collected and published in 1927 by Carl Sandburg in his American Songbag. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Traveling the American Southwest , Sandburg found the song through western poets Margaret Larkin and Linn Riggs.
Little Joe the Wrangler" is a classic American cowboy song, written by N. Howard "Jack" Thorp. It appeared in Thorp's 1908 Songs of the Cowboys, which was the first published collection of cowboy songs. [1] The tune comes from the song "Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" written by Will Hayes in 1871.
"Ragtime Cowboy Joe" was the radio show theme song for New York City's long running, award-winning public radio show, Cowboy Joe's Radio Ranch (1976–1988), hosted by Paul Aaron, New York's Cowboy Joe. During one of his radio shows Paul Aaron had the elder Joe Abrahams (the original Cowboy Joe) as a special guest.
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