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"Detour (There's a Muddy Road Ahead)" is a Western swing ballad written by Paul Westmoreland in 1945. [1] The original version was by Jimmy Walker with Paul Westmoreland and His Pecos River Boys, issued around the beginning of November 1945.
Steve Kuhn and Toshiko Akiyoshi on their The Country and Western Sound of Jazz Pianos (1963) [11] The Honey Dreamers: included on the album, Outer West! - A New Look At The Old Round-Up. [12] Hot Club of Cowtown (2011) - for album What Makes Bob Holler. [13] Frankie Laine - for his album Hell Bent for Leather! (1961). [14]
"Rawhide" is a Western song written by Ned Washington (lyrics) and composed by Dimitri Tiomkin in 1958. It was originally recorded by Frankie Laine. The song was used as the theme to Rawhide, a western television series that ran on CBS from 1959 to 1965. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of ...
The following year, the melody and lyrics were collected and published in Carl Sandburg's American Songbag. [10] An article published in the Uvalde, Texas, Uvalde Leader-News in 1928 suggests that the origin of the song was the small town of Lohn, Texas. The article states that the song was originally about the Lohn Prairie, and was later ...
[7] [15] Higley's original lyrics are similar to those of the modern version of the song, but not identical. For instance, the original poem did not contain the words "on the range". [13] Ranchers, cowboys, and other western settlers adopted the song as a rural anthem and it spread throughout the United States in various forms. [16]
The tune and lyrics were collected and published in Carl Sandburg's 1927 American Songbag. [ 9 ] An important recording in this song's history was the 1927 Columbia Records master (15206-D) performed by Hugh Cross and Riley Puckett under the actual title of "Red River Valley".
Nudie's Rodeo Tailors for country & western artists; Country & Western Music Directory; KPOV-FM, Bend, Oregon – Calling All Cowboys, a weekly music program online featuring western music; Voices of Oklahoma interview with Guy Logsdon. First person interview conducted on February 16, 2010, with Guy Logsdon, western music historian
"Amarillo by Morning" is a country music song written by Terry Stafford and Paul Fraser, and recorded in a country pop style by Stafford as a single in 1973 to minor success. [2] The song would be popularized in a fiddle-based Western rendition by Texas neotraditionalist George Strait in 1982. [4]