Tex Fletcher:
The Lonely Cowboy |
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Fletcher’s recording career began in earnest in November 1936 when he signed with Decca. His initial sessions were arguably his best for the label; certainly it was the purest stylistically, the closest to Fletcher’s musical heart: four cowboy songs, just voice and guitar. He wasn’t the best western singer, even in New York – he had a doughy, sometimes awkward voice – but he had that certain something and the performances are arresting. His son George concurs that this first session was something special. “They are so typical of what he loved best. Just a cowboy and his guitar. He was very sincere in those efforts.” Subsequent Decca sessions found Fletcher returning rarely to explicitly western material – not Fletcher’s preference, but it didn’t affect the quality of the performances. Already classic country songs like I’m Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail and Mistook In The Woman I Love were mixed among newer songs like I Lost My Love In The Ohio Flood. Several songs were issued on the Montgomery Ward label under the pseudonym Tack Foster. |
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Track Listing
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I'm Going Back To Red River Valley
Border Affair
Ridge Runnin' Roan
Zebra Dun
I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail
Still There's A Spark Of Love
I Lost My Love In The Ohio Flood
A Song For Mother
Mistook In The Woman I Love
Poor Blind Child
Seven More Days
The Girl In Blue Velvet Band
Wondering
My Old Dog And Me
Little Sweetheart Of The Ozarks
Yodel Lady
Shine On Rocky Mountain Moonlight
Ain't She Sweet
Meet Me Tonight In The Cowshed
Down On The Old Plantation
Highways Are Happy Ways
I Get The Blues When It Rains |
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I'm Going Back To Red River Valley
Border Affair
Ridge Runnin' Roan
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BACM - British Archive Of Country Music |
| Number |
241 |
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