Cowboy Songs

Ed McCurdy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 3, 1996)
• Original Release Date: August 28, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tradition Records
• ASIN: B0000058QO
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #308,537 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. When The Work's All Done This Fall

2. The Cowboy

3. Jack O' Diamonds

4. Utah Carroll

5. Punchin' The Dough

6. Red River Valley

7. My Gal On The Rio Grande

8. Along Side Of The Santa Fe Trail

9. The Days Of '49

10. Strawberry Roan

11. Poor Lonesome Cowboy

12. When The Curtains Of Night

13. The Texas Song

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No gimmicks, just classic renderings of classic songs, November 3, 2001

By 

William E. Adams (Lovington, NM United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cowboy Songs (Audio CD)

This is a CD re-issue of a vinyl LP titled "Songs of the West" which came out 30 years ago. The collection certainly deserved to be re-released on compact disc. Ed McCurdy is a no-frills singer and guitarist who just nails these tunes with a wonderfully authentic sound. His versions of "Utah Caroll" and "Punching the Dough" are worth the purchase price all by themselves. "When the work's all done this fall" is also superb. If you are a fan/collector of U.S. cowboy ballads, you cannot go wrong with this album. It is fascinating to compare Ed McCurdy's presentation with the work done over the past decade by Michael Martin Murphy...he is also good, and deserves praise, along with Don Edwards, for keeping the old songs alive...but MMM and even Don tend to over-produce their albums, and fancy them up too much. This is one of the best records I've ever owned...it never gets stale.