Buffalo Skinners: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 4

by Woody Guthrie

Buffalo Skinners: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 4 cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 20 April 1999
  • Label: Smithsonian Folkways
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:12:31
  • Community rating: 3.67/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The fourth volume of Woody Guthrie's Asch Recordings, drawn from the sessions Guthrie cut for Moses Asch in New York in the 1940s. The set collects his Western and outlaw ballads, including the Pretty Boy Floyd and Billy the Kid songs, in their original Folkways context.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, animals, narrative, folklore, work

Tracklist

  1. Ranger's Command (2:48)
  2. Buffalo Skinners (3:15)
  3. Billy The Kid (2:00)
  4. Cowboy Waltz (2:03)
  5. Pretty Boy Floyd (2:58)
  6. Along In The Sun And The Rain (2:27)
  7. Whoopie Ti Yi Yo, Get Along Little Dogies (2:48)
  8. Froggie Went A-Courtin' (3:26)
  9. Buffalo Gals (2:32)
  10. I Ride An Old Paint (2:56)
  11. Dead Or Alive (2:53)
  12. Slipknot (2:30)
  13. Cocaine Blues (2:13)
  14. Go Tell Aunt Rhody (2:49)
  15. Chisholm Trail (2:24)
  16. Stewball (3:26)
  17. Wild Cyclone (3:57)
  18. Trail Blues (3:31)
  19. Red River Valley (2:52)
  20. Fastest Of Ponies (4:15)
  21. Stewball (2:27)
  22. Snow Deer (2:31)
  23. When The Curfew Blows (1:42)
  24. Little Darling (2:12)
  25. Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road (3:02)
  26. The Return Of Rocky Mountain Slim And Desert Rat Shorty (2:34)

Credits

  • Woody Guthrie - primary artist, arranged by, guitar, harmonica, lead vocals, mandolin, narrator, written-by
  • Cisco Houston - arranged by, guitar, harmony vocals, narrator, written-by
  • Huddie Ledbetter - arranged by
  • Leadbelly - guitar, vocals
  • Sonny Terry - harmonica, vocals
  • Anthony Seeger - supervised by
  • D.A. Sonneborn - supervised by
  • Unknown Artist - double bass [bass fiddle]

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