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The Cisco Houston Collection 1944-61
Cisco Houston
Styles: Folk
Catalogue Number: ACFCD7518
Cisco Houston was a folk singer and songwriter, brought up in California, who was a close associate of Woody Guthrie, whom he met while working as an actor in Hollywood in the late ‘30s. They started travelling together, playing at migrant workers’ camps and promoting unionism and workers’ rights. After serving in the Merchant Marine in WWII, he was in the Almanac Singers in New York with Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and began recording with Guthrie. Over subsequent years, he performed in clubs and worked on radio and was part of the folk scene that was at the heart of the burgeoning protest movement, writing, collecting and recording songs that carried messages that championed the cause of the downtrodden classes. This 132-track 5-CD set brings together a considerable proportion of his work, comprising selected titles from his early years, along with the titles from his albums “Cowboy Songs”, “Leadbelly: Midnight Special”, “Cowboy Ballads and Railroad Songs”, “900 Miles and Other R. R. Songs”, “Hard Travelin’”, “More Songs By Woody Guthrie And Cisco Houston”, “Cisco Sings”, “Cisco Houston Sings Songs of the Open Road, “Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie” and “I Ain't Got No Home”, his last before he died from cancer in 1961 aged 42.. Including collaborations with Guthrie, Leadbelly and Sonny Terry, it’s a comprehensive overview of his work and a substantial showcase for his distinctive talents as an artist who was a genuine folk troubadour. |
Disk 1: |
Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Hard Ain't It Hard |
Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston |
2 |
More Pretty Gals Than One |
Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston |
3 |
Sally Don't You Grieve |
Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston |
4 |
Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way |
Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston |
5 |
Mule Skinner Blues |
Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Pete Seeger |
6 |
900 Miles |
Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Baldwin Hawes, Bess Lomax |
7 |
Glory |
Sonny Terry, Alek, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston |
8 |
Night Herding Song |
Cisco Houston |
9 |
Blue Yodel |
Cisco Houston |
10 |
Drunken Rat |
Cisco Houston |
11 |
Roving Gambler |
Cisco Houston |
12 |
Philadelphia Lawyer |
Cisco Houston |
13 |
Oh Willy My Darling |
Cisco Houston |
14 |
Tying A Knot In The Devil's Tail |
Cisco Houston |
15 |
Ham And Eggs |
Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston |
16 |
Midnight Special |
Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston |
17 |
Yellow Gal |
Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston |
18 |
Grey Goose |
Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston |
19 |
Stewball |
Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston |
20 |
Alabama Bound |
Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston |
21 |
The Rambler (I Don't Mind Marrying) |
Cisco Houston |
22 |
On Top Of Old Smokey |
Cisco Houston |
23 |
Sowing On The Mountain |
Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston |
24 |
Fire Down Below |
Cisco Houston |
25 |
Crawdad Song |
Cisco Houston |
26 |
Chisholm Trail |
Cisco Houston |
27 |
Diamond Joe |
Cisco Houston |
Disk 2: |
Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
I Ride An Old Paint |
Cisco Houston |
2 |
Little Joe, The Wrangler |
Cisco Houston |
3 |
The Dying Cowboy |
Cisco Houston |
4 |
Stewball |
Cisco Houston |
5 |
Trouble In Mind |
Cisco Houston |
6 |
Sweet Betsy From Pike |
Cisco Houston |
7 |
900 Miles |
Cisco Houston |
8 |
'Getting Up' Holler |
Cisco Houston |
9 |
The Roamer |
Cisco Houston |
10 |
Wreck Of The '97 |
Cisco Houston |
11 |
Hobo Bill |
Cisco Houston |
12 |
The Great American Bum |
Cisco Houston |
13 |
The Brave Engineer |
Cisco Houston |
14 |
The Gambler |
Cisco Houston |
15 |
The Rambler |
Cisco Houston |
16 |
Railroad Bill |
Cisco Houston |
17 |
Worried Man Blues |
Cisco Houston |
18 |
Hard Travelin |
Cisco Houston |
19 |
Stagolee |
Cisco Houston |
20 |
The John B. Sails |
Cisco Houston |
21 |
The Frozen Logger |
Cisco Houston |
22 |
Turtle Dove |
Cisco Houston |
23 |
True Love On My Mind |
Cisco Houston |
24 |
Dink's Song |
Cisco Houston |
25 |
Hound Dog |
Cisco Houston |
26 |
Gypsy Davy |
Cisco Houston |
27 |
Intoxicated Rat |
Cisco Houston |
28 |
The Girl In The Wood |
Cisco Houston |
Disk 3: |
Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Crawdad Song |
Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry |
2 |
Go Tell Aunt Rhody |
Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry |
3 |
Froggy Went A-Courtin' |
Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry |
4 |
Take A Whiff On Me |
Cisco Houston |
5 |
Bad Lee Brown |
Cisco Houston |
6 |
The Golden Vanity |
Cisco Houston |
7 |
Cumberland Gap |
Cisco Houston |
8 |
Sourwood Mountain |
Cisco Houston |
9 |
Old Time Religion |
Cisco Houston |
10 |
Columbus Stockade |
Cisco Houston |
11 |
Johnny Hard |
Cisco Houston |
12 |
Foggy Mountain Top |
Cisco Houston |
13 |
Bury Me Beneath The Willow |
Cisco Houston |
14 |
Skip To My Lou |
Cisco Houston |
15 |
Ezekiel Saw The Wheel |
Cisco Houston |
16 |
Rambling, Gambling Man |
Cisco Houston |
17 |
Pat Works On The Railway |
Cisco Houston |
18 |
Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill |
Cisco Houston |
19 |
The Killer |
Cisco Houston |
20 |
The Zebra Dun |
Cisco Houston |
21 |
Old Reilly |
Cisco Houston |
22 |
Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road |
Cisco Houston |
23 |
St. James Infirmary |
Cisco Houston |
24 |
Old Howard |
Cisco Houston |
Disk 4: |
Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Make Me A Bed Right Down On Your Floor |
Cisco Houston |
2 |
John Hardy |
Cisco Houston |
3 |
The Boll Weevil |
Cisco Houston |
4 |
The Midnight Special |
Cisco Houston |
5 |
Great July Jones |
Cisco Houston |
6 |
Mule Skinner Blues |
Cisco Houston |
7 |
Git Along Little Dogies |
Cisco Houston |
8 |
The Erie Canal |
Cisco Houston |
9 |
Hobo's Lullaby |
Cisco Houston |
10 |
East Virginia Blues |
Cisco Houston |
11 |
Travel On (Done Laid Around) |
Cisco Houston |
12 |
The Preacher And The Slave (Pie In The Sky) |
Cisco Houston |
13 |
Mysteries Of A Hobo's Life (The Job I Left Behind Me) |
Cisco Houston |
14 |
Soup Song |
Cisco Houston |
15 |
Beans, Bacon And Gravy |
Cisco Houston |
16 |
The Tramp |
Cisco Houston |
17 |
Cryderville Jail |
Cisco Houston |
18 |
I Ain't Got No Home |
Cisco Houston |
19 |
Pastures Of Plenty |
Cisco Houston |
20 |
(My Daddy Flies A) Ship In The Sky |
Cisco Houston |
21 |
Deportees (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) |
Cisco Houston |
22 |
Grand Coulee Dam |
Cisco Houston |
23 |
Sinking Of The Reuben James |
Cisco Houston |
24 |
Curly Headed Baby |
Cisco Houston |
25 |
Ladies Auxiliary |
Cisco Houston |
Disk 5: |
Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Taking It Easy |
Cisco Houston |
2 |
Hard, Ain't It Hard |
Cisco Houston |
3 |
Jesus Christ |
Cisco Houston |
4 |
Buffalo Skinners |
Cisco Houston |
5 |
Pretty Boy Floyd |
Cisco Houston |
6 |
Philadelphia Lawyer |
Cisco Houston |
7 |
Old Lone Wolf |
Cisco Houston |
8 |
Talking Fishing Blues |
Cisco Houston |
9 |
Ranger's Command |
Cisco Houston |
10 |
Do Re Mi |
Cisco Houston |
11 |
Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road |
Cisco Houston |
12 |
I Ain't Got No Home |
Cisco Houston |
13 |
Waggoner's Lad |
Cisco Houston |
14 |
New York Town |
Cisco Houston |
15 |
Danville Girl |
Cisco Houston |
16 |
Bonneville Dam |
Cisco Houston |
17 |
Wreck Of The '97 |
Cisco Houston |
18 |
My Gal |
Cisco Houston |
19 |
Tom Joad |
Cisco Houston |
20 |
Talking Guitar Blues |
Cisco Houston |
21 |
Rambling Round |
Cisco Houston |
22 |
I'm A Dust Bowl Refugee |
Cisco Houston |
23 |
Trouble In Mind |
Cisco Houston |
24 |
East Texas Red |
Cisco Houston |
25 |
Hobo Blues |
Cisco Houston |
26 |
Streets Of Laredo |
Cisco Houston |
27 |
Take My Hand - Didn't It Rain |
Cisco Houston |
28 |
This Land Is My Land |
Cisco Houston |
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