Take Me Back to the Range: Selections from Western Jubilee Recording Company

by Various Artists

Take Me Back to the Range: Selections from Western Jubilee Recording Company cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 30 April 2020
  • Label: Smithsonian Folkways
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:00:40
  • Community rating: 3.56/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Issued to commemorate Smithsonian Folkways' acquisition of Western Jubilee Recording Company, the Colorado Springs label Scott O'Malley founded in 1996, this eighteen-track selection draws on a catalogue that earned GRAMMY nominations for Norman Blake and Don Edwards. Peter Rowan and Don Edwards sing the title track, and Waddie Mitchell recites cowboy poems alongside the Sons of the San Joaquin, Katy Moffatt and Michael Martin Murphey.

Genres

Descriptors: folk, storytelling, compilation, acoustic, wild-west

Tracklist

  1. Take Me Back to the Range (4:10)
  2. The Sunny Side of Life (3:21)
  3. Where Horses Are Heroes (3:19)
  4. Typical (1:14)
  5. Annie Laurie / Bad Half Hour (5:49)
  6. Hallie Lonigan (4:32)
  7. Santa Rosa Serenade (3:59)
  8. Rooster Poem (0:48)
  9. Bonnie Dundee / Fareweel Tae Tarwathie / The Railroad Corral (3:29)
  10. Flop-Eared Mule (4:08)
  11. Coyotes (4:34)
  12. Waddie-Ism-8 (0:22)
  13. Summer Ranges (3:36)
  14. Two Miles to Town (4:13)
  15. Lupus #1 (2:59)
  16. Harsh Words (1:02)
  17. Cloverdale Plantation March (4:33)
  18. From Whence Came the Cowboy (4:23)

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