Cowboy Music

[litl rooster]

Lazy K do you remember who preformed it on Ed Sullivan, the Outlaws weren't around till after Ed  was off the air. ?Frankie Laine? Just did a search found 165 hits on that song couldn't believe how many folks have covered it. Including Boston Pops.


Capt, I was trying to find a pic to post here in the Mid 90's I was stage manager for a show he did in Montana and also MCed...Red is truely one of the nicest people a fella could want to meet. Spent about 2 hours off stage with him at a Jackpot roping. At that time he was still pretty active roping, now he's in the NCHA activities.

[thehairlessone]

arcey,
i did like the lyrics you listed.

I would like to hear a bit of that type of music if anyone has a link,etc.

rick

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Lazy K do you remember who preformed it on Ed Sullivan, the Outlaws weren't around till after Ed  was off the air. ?Frankie Laine? Just did a search found 165 hits on that song couldn't believe how many folks have covered it. Including Boston Pops.


Capt, I was trying to find a pic to post here in the Mid 90's I was stage manager for a show he did in Montana and also MCed...Red is truely one of the nicest people a fella could want to meet. Spent about 2 hours off stage with him at a Jackpot roping. At that time he was still pretty active roping, now he's in the NCHA activities.

My brother-in-law used to go out to Elko, Nevada every year for the Cowboy Poetry Gathering.  He got to know the Riders in the Sky group real well and always made a point to attend their shows whenever they came reasonably close by in Texas.  When he died in '93, my sister contacted them about singing at his graveside funeral here in Johnson City. Two of the then trio, Ranger Doug and Too Slim, did just that.  I remember that they did more than one song, but "Empty Saddles in the Old Corral" is the one that stuck with me, and still brings a tear to my eye when I hear it.  Got to visit with them at meal after the funeral, and both were just "good folks".  Have gotten to see the entire trio perform live a couple of times since then, and they put on a heck of a show.

[Tascosa]

I listen to Don Edwards and Michael Martin Murphy all the time and in the song 'Chislom trail' (?) I ridden on the 2 U - (read that two U bar).
Of the two Don Edwards is my farorite as he is one fine, polite gentleman. Met him and Waddie Mitchel along with their wives in a resturant here in Amarillo and they invited my wife and I to sit with them. Very fine people.
Tascosa

[litl rooster]

Capt.   Riders was one of my Pa's favorite groups he'd listen to them daily.

Tascosa you've punched the longhorn cattle? on the 2U. Waddie and Don them guys recording on Warner Western been cowboys along time, being Real people is just what they are. If they never got rich singing they still be Cowboys.

[Tascosa]

Lil Roster, didn't work any long horns on the two u bar, jest rode up to one of their fence lines that border Carson National Forest and met a few young cowboys fixing fence and set a while with them swapping lies about punching cattle in NM and Texas. I've worked for a few ranches in my time but the 2u- wasn't one of them unfortunatly cause that is sure some pruddy country!
Tascosa

[LazyK Pejay]

Hi Rooster,

It was a group of maybe (5) men. I remember one cracked a whip. What was scary was the stage was dark and on a backdrop they projected a glowing herd of longhorn cattle with a few ghosty cowboys on the side and rear.
The group was the SunDowners and S. Jones.

Another great song by the Son's of the Pioneers was Blue Shadows on the Trail:

Shades of night are falling
As the wind be-gins to sigh
And the world's silhou-etted a-gainst the sky.

Blue Shadows on the Trail
Blue moon shinin' through the trees.
And a plain--tiff wail--- from the distance
Comes a driftin' on the evening breeze.

Move a-long, Blue Shadows, move a-long
Soon the dawn will come and you'll be on your way

Un-til the darkness sheds its veil
There'll be Blue Shadows on the Trail.

Move a-long, Blue Shadows, move a-long
Soon the dawn will come and you'll be on your way

Un-til the darkness sheds its veil
There'll be Blue Shadows on the Trail.
Shadows on the Trail.

LazyK Pejay

[Badlands Walker]

Excellent tune pard!  Thanks fer' sharin'!

[litl rooster]

Tacosa, I would love to punch cattle down in that country, before I retire. Would like to ride on the 6's and the Waggoners ranches also.

LazyK, I believe the Sons of the San Joaquin also covered that one...Have you seen the Streamer on the Home page here? For the Son's of the Pioneers, Buck Paige...CD?

[LazyK Pejay]

No sir, but I'll check it out. Thx.

LazyK Pejay

[plainolddave]

The Name: Marty Robbins

The Songs:

-Big Iron
-El Paso
-Utah Carol
-Cool Water
-Running Gun
-Five Brothers
-Billy The Kid
-(I've got 160 Acres) In The Valley

One CD to add to your stash:

-Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs

[Vin Weasel]

I think Marty Robbins was born to sing Gunfighter Ballads.  I was raised watching Roy Rogers.  My Grndparents had a large collection of his movies and we always spent the whole summer with them, watching Roy Rogers and going to sleep to Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads and Sons of the Pioneers.  45's I believe they were.  That's a lot of Western influence for a Mississippi boy. 

One of the best groups I've heard since moving to Wyoming is the Bar J Wranglers, based in Jackson Hole.  They're makin' some pretty good music.

Boston John Doucette and I live in the same town, so we talked one time about combining his poetry with my music and seeing what we came up with, but we never got around to it.  Maybe someday.

Vin