Cisco Houston Web Site

LPs

Hard Travelin'

Folkways FA2012

1954

Track Listing:

Side One:

  1. Hard Travelin'
  2. Stagolee
  3. I Want To Go Home
  4. My Lover Was A Logger
  5. Turtle Dove
  6. Saturday Night

Side Two:

  1. Fare Thee Well
  2. Hound Dog
  3. Gypsy Davy
  4. The Drunken Rat
  5. Girl In The Wood

Review:

Jim Clark

A maturing Cisco sounds better, and with better guitar playing. My Lover Was A Logger is a winner, The Intoxicated Rat appeared on many Folkways LPs thoughout the years; they made lots more off it than Cisco did, I bet. It closes with Girl in the Wood, a tune Dr. Guy thinks among Cisco's best performances, which shows why, as my mother-in-law used to say, they make chocolate and vanilla.

Just a quirky thing, but the different covers list different songs. FA 2042 lists:

  • Fare Thee Well
  • Stagolee
  • I Want To Go Home
  • My Lover Was A Logger
  • Hound Dog
  • Drunken Rat
  • Turtle Dove
  • Girl In The Wood
  • Gypsy Davy
but FP 42 lists
  • Fare Thee Well (hidden in the title bar)
  • Stagolee
  • I Want To Go Home
  • My Lover Was A Logger
  • Saturday Night
  • Hound Dog
  • Drunken Rat
  • Turtle Dove
  • Girl In The Wood
  • Gypsy Davy

The endless name problem... Saturday Night is elsewhere known as True Love on my Mind. And who made these decisions, based on what?

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