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1 Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie (Carson Robinson)
2 Tumbling Tumbleweeds (Bob Nolan)
3 Little Joe the Wrangler (Jack Thorpe)
4 Bad Brahma Bull [The Brahma Bull Song] (unknown)
5 Green Grow the Lilacs (traditional)
6 Danny Boy (traditional)
7 Windy Bill (unknown)
8 Utah Carl (unknown)
9 The Streets of Laredo (traditional)
10 Billy the Kid (unknown)
11 Goodbye Old Paint (traditional)
12 Westward Bound Medley [Shenandoah; Red River Valley; Comin' Round the Mountain]
13 Cool Water (Bob Nolan)
14 When It's Night-time in Nevada (Dulmage, Pascoe, Clint)
15 Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie reprise
 

Our release for 2008  "Home Ranch Tales"
Saddle up and ride along to cowboy and traditional western duo Nevada Slim and Cimarron Sue’s 2008 release.

Read a review of this album at http://www.cowboypoetry.com/rickhuffreviews3.htm#homeranch

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. The project is dedicated to the duo’s parents, Wayne C. and Alouise Matley and Glenn and Marge Abraham, for “giving us a love of music and raising us in the west.”Nevada Slim and Cimarron Sue’s musical mission is, as always, to keep western heritage alive. We perform year around, throughout the western states. For the current schedule visit the “schedule” page.

We’ll see you on the road.  Be sure to say “howdy” next time you’re in an audience

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1. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky (Stan Jones)
2. Heart of the West (Cimarron Sue)
3. The Gift (Ian Tyson)
4. I Want to be a Real Cowboy Girl (Prentice Forrester)
5. Lope Along (Nevada Slim)
6. Bessie the Heifer (B. and J. Bryant)
7. Trail Drive (Jack Hannah)
8. Call of the Canyon (Billy HIll)
9. Cool Water (Bob Nolan)
10.Harriat With a Lariat (unknown)
11.The Quarter Horse (John Dunnigan)
12.Come Riding With Me (Cimarron Sue/Clark Crouch)
13.You Are my Sunshine (Jimmie Davis)
14.TV Westerns Medley [Ballad of Paladin; The Rebel; Maverick; Davv Crockett, Rawhide]

"Herds, Horses & Song" 
(Release date: February 2007)

This 2007 release reflects the many hundreds of performances we've played at fairs, festivals, cowboy gatherings, and other venues. What we've learned is that people are hungry for the heritage that this music represents. None want it to disappear. From our point of view, the youngsters need to learn it.

Cowboy music is part of the work, and the dream of the American West. Perhaps the most rewarding aspect of what we do is returning to a fair or festival and hearing children singing along on the classics, where only adults had sung the year before. Another great joy is meeting and working with western musicians and poets who inspire us with their efforts and ideas. HERDS, HORSES & SONG is for all of you who build and celebrate the dream -- and the reality -- of the west

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1. Timber Trail (Tim Spencer)
2. Whoopie Ti Yi O (traditional)
3. Ridin' Down the Canyon (Autry/Burnette)
4. Pecos Bill (Rogers/Lange/Daniel)
5. Tumbling Tumbleweeds (Bob Nolan)
6. Little Joe the Wrangler (Jack Thorpe)
7. Blue Shadows on the Trail (Lange/Daniel)
8. So Long to the Red River Valley (Glenn Spencer)
9. Wind (Bob Nolan)
10. Ragtime Cowboy Joe (Clarke/Muir/Abrahams)
11. Big Iron (Marty Robbins)
12. When the Bloom Is on the Sage (Wright/Vincent)
13. The Strawberry Roan (Curly Fletcher)
14. The Sierra Petes [Knots in the Devil's Tail] (Gale Gardner)

We average about 110 days on the road and 175 shows each year, playing county fairs and cowboy gatherings.   Everywhere we go, folks ask for certain songs, many of which are hard to find.

So here are songs of the west that you've asked for again and again. There's a good sprinkling of successful songwriters like Bob Nolan, Tim & Glenn Spencer, a touch of Marty Robbins and Smiley Burnette, and others.

Many cowboy songs arose from stories told of western work and everyday life, later set to music. We included some of these, the work of cowboy poets now long gone (Gale Gardner, Jack Thorpe, Curly Fletcher).

The fact is, whether it reaches us in a purely traditional form, or via the interpretations of the silvery screen, this music is one of the true folk forms of western North America.

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1. Greenback Dollar
2. Crazy Arms
3. Brandy (you're a fine girl)
4. Got This Feeling
5. In Knots Again
6. Would You Catch a Falling Star?
7. Cowpoke
8. Lovesick Blues
9. Leaving on a Jet Plane
10. Hey There Hound
11. Our Last Farewell

"Alias Nevada Slim"
(Release date:  October 2001)

Bruce Matley ("Nevada Slim") is a veteran of over 44 years of live performance. Born and raised in Reno Nevada to a pioneer cattle ranching family, Slim spent much of his childhood and teen years in the saddle on the vast ranges of Northern Nevada, in the hayfields, and engaged in the various tasks associated with ranching.

Here is an interesting mix of old country, cowboy, original, and even a folk tune or two.  Take a listen:  you'll remember many of these!

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