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Music : Cowboy Songs
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Rating: 
- Very very very nice
This cd is light hearted and FUN!
Rating:
- one of my very favorite CDs
This group is 'muy bueno'! And the collection of songs on this CD is outstanding. My wife even likes this CD. My 2 favorites are 'Cattle Call' and 'I Ride an Old Paint' but there isnt a bad song on the CD, very unique.
Rating: - Real Cowpucher Songs
I'm a cowpuncher not a cowboy and I love this CD. I just wish they didn't call it Cowboy Songs.
Rating: - Round-the-campfire harmonizing, yodeling and yee-haws
This is a fine collection of classic cowboy songs selected from the various Rounder recordings of Riders in the Sky. Many of the songs are sung in the tradition of the Sons of the Pioneers, with all the heart-felt sincerity of their great songs and their quiet end-of-the-day, round-the-campfire quality. "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," "Red River Valley," "Home on the Range," and "Streets of Laredo" hark closest to that tradition, sung slowly and in mellow harmony with backup from Woody Paul's achingly yearning violin. There's harmonized yodeling here, as well, as in "Cattle Call," sung in danceable waltz time.
Meanwhile, "Don't Fence Me In" is an homage to the bright cheerfulness of Gene Autry. The album also contains their own rendering of Autry's "Back in the Saddle Again" with some high-speed yodeling. The haunting, driving treatment of "Ghost Riders in the Sky" makes the imagery in the lyrics so vivid you may feel a shiver. And there's a wonderful energetic rendering of "Rawhide" with whip cracks, whistles, and shouts. "I Ride an Old Paint" is performed as an old-time barndance waltz, with long gliding cowboy yips and yee-haws. Altogether it's an entertaining range of songs, tugging at your heart one minute and making you smile from ear to ear the next. The only thing I can say bad about this album is that if there were twice as many songs, it wouldn't be too many.
Rating: - another music fan from Colorado also says "thumb up"
I agree with the other customer reviewer from Colorado who liked this disc. I've been searching for a disc that has most of the great old cowboy classics, with none of the stupid comic songs that most producers apparently consider de rigeur and with the clean sound of a modern recording. This is a great collection, with great singing and some interesting but not perverse interpretations. I only wish that they had left out "Rawhide" (the theme for a TV western) and "Chasing Down the Sun" (a new piece) and added a couple more of the true classics. At the very least, "Cool Water" should be here, as could "Blue Shadows on the Trail", both of which have been recorded by Riders in the Sky. By the way, this disc is a collection of tracks from other, full-price Rounder discs, so let me hasten to add that Rounder is to be thanked for doing us all a favor by making this mostly classic collection available at a bargain price from their budget subsidiary.
- Very very very niceThis cd is light hearted and FUN!
Rating:
- one of my very favorite CDsThis group is 'muy bueno'! And the collection of songs on this CD is outstanding. My wife even likes this CD. My 2 favorites are 'Cattle Call' and 'I Ride an Old Paint' but there isnt a bad song on the CD, very unique.
Rating:
- Real Cowpucher SongsI'm a cowpuncher not a cowboy and I love this CD. I just wish they didn't call it Cowboy Songs.
Rating:
- Round-the-campfire harmonizing, yodeling and yee-hawsThis is a fine collection of classic cowboy songs selected from the various Rounder recordings of Riders in the Sky. Many of the songs are sung in the tradition of the Sons of the Pioneers, with all the heart-felt sincerity of their great songs and their quiet end-of-the-day, round-the-campfire quality. "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," "Red River Valley," "Home on the Range," and "Streets of Laredo" hark closest to that tradition, sung slowly and in mellow harmony with backup from Woody Paul's achingly yearning violin. There's harmonized yodeling here, as well, as in "Cattle Call," sung in danceable waltz time.
Meanwhile, "Don't Fence Me In" is an homage to the bright cheerfulness of Gene Autry. The album also contains their own rendering of Autry's "Back in the Saddle Again" with some high-speed yodeling. The haunting, driving treatment of "Ghost Riders in the Sky" makes the imagery in the lyrics so vivid you may feel a shiver. And there's a wonderful energetic rendering of "Rawhide" with whip cracks, whistles, and shouts. "I Ride an Old Paint" is performed as an old-time barndance waltz, with long gliding cowboy yips and yee-haws. Altogether it's an entertaining range of songs, tugging at your heart one minute and making you smile from ear to ear the next. The only thing I can say bad about this album is that if there were twice as many songs, it wouldn't be too many.
Rating:
- another music fan from Colorado also says "thumb up"I agree with the other customer reviewer from Colorado who liked this disc. I've been searching for a disc that has most of the great old cowboy classics, with none of the stupid comic songs that most producers apparently consider de rigeur and with the clean sound of a modern recording. This is a great collection, with great singing and some interesting but not perverse interpretations. I only wish that they had left out "Rawhide" (the theme for a TV western) and "Chasing Down the Sun" (a new piece) and added a couple more of the true classics. At the very least, "Cool Water" should be here, as could "Blue Shadows on the Trail", both of which have been recorded by Riders in the Sky. By the way, this disc is a collection of tracks from other, full-price Rounder discs, so let me hasten to add that Rounder is to be thanked for doing us all a favor by making this mostly classic collection available at a bargain price from their budget subsidiary.