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Jack Thorp's Songs of the Cowboys

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This is a high-quality book and CD package. The book is made of heavy paper, and the cover is made of thick and glossy paper. This isn't a run-of-the-mill paperback, but it's one that you'll be able to enjoy over and over again, and then pass it down to future generations. The history discussed in this book, and the insight into Jack Thorp is very interesting. And the CD taps into the old sounds very well. In fact, I'll be getting other CDs by the artists based on what I heard.

Highly recommend to anyone wanted to know more about cowboy culture and cowboy music.

There was another version which included musical notation for some of these songs (poems). They were composed by intelligent but unschooled ranch hands (cowboys, to us) who were often displaced veterans of the Civil War; Union and Confederate. Theirs was an oral history of their experiences, usually set to some already familiar tune, some humorous, some (Little Joe The Wrangler, When The Work's All Done This Fall) a eulogy to a victim of their dangers, left buried on the trail. An overlooked source of American 19th century history.