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1. Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie
2. Tumbling
Tumbleweeds
3. Little Joe the Wrangler
4. Bad Brahma Bull [The Brahma Bull Song] 5. Green Grow the
Lilacs 6. Danny Boy
7. Windy Bil
8. Utah Carl
9. The Streets of
Laredo
10. Billy the Kid
11. Goodbye Old Paint
12. Westward Bound
Medley
[Shenandoah; Red River Valley; Comin' Round the Mountain]
13. Cool Water
14. When It's Night-time in Nevada
15. Carry Me Back (reprise)
This release is truly ‘the good old stuff.’ The songs we’ve recorded
range from traditional tunes sung by the western pioneers as they migrated
and adjusted to their new lives, to a couple of the best of the early Sons
of the Pioneers.
Lyrics for many of the older songs are from the anthologies of Alta S. and
Austin Fife, renowned folklorists of the mid-twentieth century, who found
that cowboys and other westerners originally sang songs passed down by
their families, adjusting lyrics and melodies to suit life in the rugged
American west. The couple researched hundreds of songs, building on the
work done by the first western “songcatcher” N. Howard “Jack” Thorpe;
Thorpe’s own composition “Little Joe the Wrangler” is represented in the
“Home Ranch Tales” song list. (The Fife collections are now, sadly, long
out of print)
On a personal note, a great number of the songs selected for “Home Ranch
Tales” were part of Nevada Slim’s childhood on the home ranch in Reno, NV.
Slim’s Dad, the late Wayne C. Matley, himself recorded many cowboy songs;
his 1946 recording of “Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie” (along with Slim
and Sue’s version) is included on the new CD.