This time around we’ll feature music in the Cowboy Way – sent out especially to Rick and Becky, our close kin in Cody, Wyoming. We’ve got classic songs from Lead Belly, Powder River Jack and Kitty Lee, Jack Guthrie, and others; more contemporary offerings include music from Dom Flemons, Jim Kweskin and (of course!) Riders in the Sky. Brew up some cowboy coffee and sit back under the open sky … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Wayne Erbsen / “Texas Quickstep” / Cowboy Songs of the Wild Frontier / Native Ground
Dom Flemons / “Home on the Range” / Presents Black Cowboys / Smithsonian Folkways
Lead Belly / “Western Cowboy” / Deep River of Song: Black Texicans / Rounder
Jim Kweskin / “The Tenderfoot (Cowboy)” / Unjugged / Hornbeam
Crockett Family / “Buffalo Gals Medley” / When I Was A Cowboy Vol.2 / Yazoo

Powder River Jack & Kitty Lee / “Tying Knots in the Devil’s Tail / When I Was A Cowboy Vol.1 / Yazoo
Glenn Ohrlin / “The High-Tone Dance” / The Cowboy Tour / Rounder
Waddie Mitchell / “The Old Nighthawk” / Live / Shanachie
Wayne Erbsen / “Sally Goodin” / Cowboy Songs of the Wild Frontier / Native Ground

Dom Flemons / “Little Joe the Wrangler” / Presents Black Cowboys / Smithsonian Folkways
Girls of the Golden West / “Round-Up Time in Texas” / Flowers in the Wildwood / Trikont
Jack Guthrie / “Oklahoma Hills” / Swinging Hollywood Hillbillies-Hillbilly Cowboys / Proper
Patsy Montana / “I Want to be a Cowboy Sweetheart” / Columbia Country Classics Vol.1 / Columbia
Ray Bierl / “Blue Mountain” / Cowboy Dancing / Greasy String
Kathy Johnson / “Happy Trails” / Way Out West / Singing Bridge
Riders in the Sky / “Rawhide” / Always Drink Upstream from the Herd / Rounder
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways