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"Tumbling Tumbleweeds" is a Western music song composed by Bob Nolan, a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers. Nolan wrote the song in the early 1930s while he was working as a caddy and living in Los Angeles .
He was a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and composer of numerous Country music and Western music songs, including the standards "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds." He is generally regarded as one of the finest Western songwriters of all time. [1] As an actor and singer he appeared in scores of Western films.
Weeds and Water is the fourth studio album by the Western band Riders in the Sky, released in 1983. It is available as a single CD. The album features cowboy music standards like "Cool Water," "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" and "Streets of Laredo," along with several originals. This album was first released in the early 1980s as a direct-mail TV package.
They also figure prominently in “Tumbling Tumbleweeds,” a song recorded by Sons of the Pioneers in the 1930s, said Brooks Hefner, professor of English at James Madison University. “That song gives one of the biggest metaphors that the tumbleweed is like the version of a drifter," Hefner said.
Tumbleweed Trails (MCA, 1980) Let's Go West Again (1981) Celebration Vol. 1 (Silver Spur, 1982) Columbia Historic Edition (Columbia, 1982) Twenty of the Best (1985) Tumbling Tumbleweeds (MCA, 1986) Good Old Country Music (RCA Camden, 1986) Cool Water – Edition 1 1945–46 (Bear Family, 1987) Teardrops in My Heart – Edition 2 1946–47 (Bear ...
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The gnarled icon of the Old West — ominously featured in movies as gunslingers square off on dusty streets and townsfolk shake behind curtained windows — rolled in over the weekend and kept ...
Plastic bags tumbleweed by, and it feels like multiple someones are watching. Twice, a jaw-grinder with dreadful tats scuttles by murmuring, in a serious rush. Three cars go by, and a bus.