Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, credited to John Lomax, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John Lomax. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Nemo; Jack Allan; Michael Fassio; Scotty Smith; Kurt; DrPGould; realisticspeakers; Eva Davis; Peter Yearsley; Tim Watkins; Cyndy; BettyB; Michael; Chris Pyle; Yanyan Zeng; Lowell Moore; aniroo; Jack Albert; Bristol Chilton; Phil Schempf; Wolfgang Bas John Avery Lomax is a towering figure in the field of early American musicology and folklore. Through intensive field work, Lomax built up the core body of work for the Library of Congress Archive. "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads" is his collection that propelled him to the forefront of his field and ignited new interest in American folklore, inspiring many to continue research. For his contributions to the field of cowboy music, Locas was inducted into the Western Music Hall of Fame in 2010. Many of the verses here are accompanied by musical scores, and some may be more familiar in their musical form such as "A Home on the Range." A wide array of characters and life across the western United States is represented here. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
• Author credits: John Lomax
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 156
• Listed recording duration: 6:36:26

Catalogue topics

• western
• folklore
• Texas
• ranch
• mississippi
• cowboy
• Arizona
• Boston

Opening tracks: first 24 of 156

1. 001 - Dedication — 2:24
2. 002 - Introduction — 5:00
3. 003 - Collector's Note — 16:00
4. 004 - The Dying Cowboy — 4:04
5. 005 - The Days of Forty-nine — 2:43
6. 006 - Joe Bowers — 2:44
7. 007 - The Cowboy's Dream — 2:17
8. 008 - The Cowboy's Life — 1:54
9. 009 - The Kansas Line — 1:53
10. 010 - The Cowman's Prayer — 1:18
11. 011 - The Miner's Song — 2:49
12. 012 - Jesse James — 2:39
13. 013 - Poor Lonesome Cowboy — 1:30
14. 014 - Buena Vista Battlefield — 2:56
15. 015 - Westward Ho — 1:26
16. 016 - A Home on the Range — 1:56
17. 017 - Texas Rangers — 3:06
18. 018 - The Mormon Bishop's Lament — 4:03
19. 019 - Dan Taylor — 1:53
20. 020 - When Work Is Done This Fall — 3:10
21. 021 - Sioux Indians — 2:19
22. 022 - The Old Chisholm Trail — 3:34
23. 023 - Jack Donahoo — 1:47
24. 024 - Utah Carroll — 3:17

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