Cowtrails Longhorns & Tight Saddles: Cowboy Songs 1925-1929 [Import]

Carl T. Sprague | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 4, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Bear Family
• ASIN: B00009Z58E
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #343,108 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. When the Work's All Done This Fall

2. Kisses

3. Bad Companions

4. Following the Cowtrail

5. Cow Boy Love Song

6. The Club Meeting

7. If Your Saddle Is Good and Tight

8. The Gambler

9. O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (The Dying Cowboy)

10. The Cowboy's Dream

11. Here's to the Texas Ranger

12. The Boston Burglar

13. Rounded Up in Glory

14. Last Great Round Up

15. Cowman's Prayer

16. The Cowboy

17. Utah Carrol

18. The Two Soldiers

19. The Wayward Daughter

20. The Prisoner's Meditation

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

(CD with 40-page booklet) The success of Carl T. Sprague's 1925 recording of When The Work's All Done This Fall established the image of the singing cowboy in American culture. As a young man, Sprague learned cowboy songs on trail drives from an uncle who had worked as a cowboy from the late 1880s. Sprague's renditions are a direct link to a time when the poems and ballads, some of them centuries old, were first sung by the drovers who moved the great cattle herds out of Texas to Kansas following the Civil War. Here are all the surviving songs recorded by Sprague from 1925-1929. They represent some of the earliest pieces of the vast oral tradition of cowboy music that moved into the public consciousness at the dawn of commercial recording technology.