Title: Folkways Years 1944-61 Artist: Cisco Houston Label: Folkways Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 093074005927 Genre: Country, Folk Release Date: 1994-05-01
Long-overdue collection from one of the seminal figures in American folk music, featuring 29 tracks-eight unreleased, including two duets with Woody Guthrie-drawn from the Folkways vaults. With notes by Guy Logsdon, and a full 73 minutes of songs. Wonderful album.
Tracks: 1.1 I Ain't Got No Home 1.2 Hard Traveling 1.3 Rambling, Gambling Man 1.4 Hobo Bill 1.5 There's a Better World A-Comin' 1.6 The Strawberry Roan 1.7 The Great American Bum 1.8 The Intoxicated Rat 1.9 The Cat Came Back 1.10 The Frozen Logger 1.11 Pat Works on the Railroad 1.12 Dark As a Dungeon 1.13 Diamond Joe 1.14 The Girl in the Wood 1.15 Ship in the Sky 1.16 The Fox 1.17 What Did the Deep Blue Sea Say 1.18 Saint James Infirmary 1.19 Born 100,000 Years Ago 1.20 Pie in the Sky 1.21 Mysteries of a Hobo's Life 1.22 900 Miles 1.23 Great July Jones 1.24 A Picture from Life's Other Side 1.25 Farmer's Lament 1.26 The Killer 1.27 I Ride An Old Paint 1.28 Zebra Du 1.29 Passing Through
