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Jules Allen:
The Singing Cowboy - Complete Recordings 1928-1929 |
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During the 1930s, music evocative of the West took on a major part of the unfolding drama of hillbilly music. Later, that became a joint leading roll when the brand changed to “country & western”. But the cowboys who populated the songs of Gene Autry, The Sons of the Pioneers and Patsy Montana were figures of myth, connected only by their name, and distantly by their dress, with the hard-bitten working men who had opened up the West in the 19th century; and the songs that celebrated them were romances rather than stories. For a more documentary light on cowboy life, we must go back further, to singers who knew at first hand what it was to ride the range and punch cattle: to men like Jules Verne Allen.
At the end of the 1920s, Allen recorded almost two dozen songs sung by cowboys. In a weather-beaten voice, to the accompaniment of a clip-clopping guitar, he recounted tails like Little Joe, The Wrangler, When The Works All Done This Fall and Chisholm Trail, bunkhouse ditties such as Home On The Range and Cowboy’s Lament (alias Streets Of Laredo), and other pieces that, though unconnected with the life of a cowboy, nevertheless smelled the smoke of pioneer fires – pieces like the early settler song Little Old Sod Shanty and the Gold Rush ditty The Days of Forty-Nine. If these had been the only cowboy songs to survive on records, they would still be an excellent and representative sampling. |
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Track Listing
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Little Joe The Wrangler
Jack O' Diamonds
Po' Mourner
Somebody But You Don't Mean Me
The Days Of Forty Nine
Home On The Range
The Texas Cowboy
A Prisoner For Life
The Gal I Left Behind Me
Zebra Dun
Cow Trail To Mexico
The Old Chisholm Trail
Cowboy's Love Song
Sweetie Dear
Long Side The Santa Fe Trail
Two Fragments
The Cowboy's Dream
The Cowboy's Lament
Little Old Sod Shanty
When The Work's All Done This Fall
Punchin' The Dough
The Dying Cowboy |
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Little Joe The Wrangler
Jack O' Diamonds
Po' Mourner
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| Label |
BACM - British Archive Of Country Music |
| Number |
250 |
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