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Any Fans of Cowboy Songs?
Sorry. No link. I'm in a car driving all day. Cole porter bought the poem from a highway engineer I think? He reworked the poem into the song
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It was a few years later and the rock era when my folks finally took me seriously & got me a guitar and lessons, but that background never went away. Sons of the Pioneers style harmonies still make me very happy inside! The feeling has carried over into my songwriting occasionally, musically, if not lyrically. For instance: The Valley or this swing number I wrote for my lanky curly headed brunette dandelion of a significant other... Dandelion Brunette |
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Am I the only one that wants to see the band form that has Silly Moustache and Dave Trabue (KYDave) ??
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My ex-wife was from Montana and she introduced me to a lot of good authentic Western Cowboy music. I do like it. Have you ever noticed much of western music is written in 3/4 time, my favorite time signature? I don't listen too often but there are some great artists in this genre.
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We first met in a gent's urinal in Hampshire ! I can't remember who introduced me to Chuck Pyle - one of my pals on either the Guy Clark or Townes Van Zandt Yahoo lists. His clear clean voice and playing style instantly impressed.
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My songs usually come together as a story I want to tell (which dictates the lyrics), an idea for a feel (which dictates the rhythm/chord structure) and a melody comes along with the first couple of lines of lyric... usually. The rest is just hashing out the details... which usually come pretty quickly, but not always. This is another "contemporary cowboy song" I wrote. As I mentioned above, I wanted to tell a story of how one could feel empathy for an anti-social person, even as the anti-social person was crossing the line to the point where one had to drop the hammer on him. "Empathy" This one had about three different Martins on various tracks I recorded; my old '71 D-28, a '59 0-18 I used to own, and a '99 Special Edition SP000-16R I used to own. |
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Marty Robbins's `59 album `Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs' is probably the very best place to start if you really want to learn `Cowboy Songs'.
Contains `El Paso', `Cool Water', `Running Gun',`In The Valley' and many other Western standards. Apart from MR's incredible vocals/range, it contains some of the best 3-part harmonies and pickin' (Grady Martin) of that genre. Don Edwards - whose albums I really enjoy - openly admits to being influenced by that album - and Marty Robbins. |
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The real cowboy move-'em-down-the-trail phase was over by like 1890 at the latest. So to me it is exceedingly interesting that what we're all so nostalgic about is itself nostalgia.
That said, there are some very real tunes from the original cowboys. One of my favorite cowboy tunes is set in New Hampshire:
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Bob Fletcher from Helena, MT, wrote the original poem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27...e_Me_In_(song).
This is a sign at one of the rest stops in southeastern Montana (might be on Highway 212 near Broadus, but I don't remember exactly): |
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Guitar Center Sessions has him on currently out here on the West Coast and he's still in great form and voice. |
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The old Cowboy songs bring back many memories for me. A fun thread to read on a Sunday afternoon..
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Michael Martin Murphey came to mind as soon as I saw your thread title. LOVE him! I don't think any artist works harder to spread true classic cowboy songs.
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+1 Don Edwards - "Coyotes"
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