Cisco Houston - Cisco Houston Collection 1944-61 (CD)

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.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Hard Ain't It Hard
2. More Pretty Gals Than One
3. Sally Don't You Grieve
4. Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way
5. Mule Skinner Blues
6. 900 Miles
7. Glory
8. Night Herding Song
9. Blue Yodel
10. Drunken Rat
11. Roving Gambler
12. Philadelphia Lawyer
13. Oh Willy My Darling
14. Tying A Knot In The Devil's Tail
15. Ham And Eggs
16. Midnight Special
17. Yellow Gal
18. Grey Goose
19. Stewball
20. Alabama Bound
21. The Rambler (I Don't Mind Marrying)
22. On Top Of Old Smokey
23. Sowing On The Mountain
24. Fire Down Below
25. Crawdad Song
26. Chisholm Trail
27. Diamond Joe

Disc: 2

1. I Ride An Old Paint
2. Little Joe, The Wrangler
3. The Dying Cowboy
4. Stewball
5. Trouble In Mind
6. Sweet Betsy From Pike
7. 900 Miles
8. 'Getting Up' Holler
9. The Roamer
10. Wreck Of The '97
11. Hobo Bill
12. The Great American Bum
13. The Brave Engineer
14. The Gambler
15. The Rambler
16. Railroad Bill
17. Worried Man Blues
18. Hard Travelin
19. Stagolee
20. The John B. Sails
21. The Frozen Logger
22. Turtle Dove
23. True Love On My Mind
24. Dink's Song
25. Hound Dog
26. Gypsy Davy
27. Intoxicated Rat
28. The Girl In The Wood

Disc: 3

1. Crawdad Song
2. Go Tell Aunt Rhody
3. Froggy Went A-Courtin'
4. Take A Whiff On Me
5. Bad Lee Brown
6. The Golden Vanity
7. Cumberland Gap
8. Sourwood Mountain
9. Old Time Religion
10. Columbus Stockade
11. Johnny Hard
12. Foggy Mountain Top
13. Bury Me Beneath The Willow
14. Skip To My Lou
15. Ezekiel Saw The Wheel
16. Rambling, Gambling Man
17. Pat Works On The Railway
18. Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
19. The Killer
20. The Zebra Dun
21. Old Reilly
22. Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road
23. St. James Infirmary
24. Old Howard

Disc: 4

1. Make Me A Bed Right Down On Your Floor
2. John Hardy
3. The Boll Weevil
4. The Midnight Special
5. Great July Jones
6. Mule Skinner Blues
7. Git Along Little Dogies
8. The Erie Canal
9. Hobo's Lullaby
10. East Virginia Blues
11. Travel On (Done Laid Around)
12. The Preacher And The Slave (Pie In The Sky)
13. Mysteries Of A Hobo's Life (The Job I Left Behind Me)
14. Soup Song
15. Beans, Bacon And Gravy
16. The Tramp
17. Cryderville Jail
18. I Ain't Got No Home
19. Pastures Of Plenty
20. (My Daddy Flies A) Ship In The Sky
21. Deportees (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
22. Grand Coulee Dam
23. Sinking Of The Reuben James
24. Curly Headed Baby
25. Ladies Auxiliary

Disc: 5

1. Taking It Easy
2. Hard, Ain't It Hard
3. Jesus Christ
4. Buffalo Skinners
5. Pretty Boy Floyd
6. Philadelphia Lawyer
7. Old Lone Wolf
8. Talking Fishing Blues
9. Ranger's Command
10. Do Re Mi
11. Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road
12. I Ain't Got No Home
13. Waggoner's Lad
14. New York Town
15. Danville Girl
16. Bonneville Dam
17. Wreck Of The '97
18. My Gal
19. Tom Joad
20. Talking Guitar Blues
21. Rambling Round
22. I'm A Dust Bowl Refugee
23. Trouble In Mind
24. East Texas Red
25. Hobo Blues
26. Streets Of Laredo
27. Take My Hand - Didn't It Rain
28. This Land Is My Land