Essays

• Bob Greenberg Cisco's friend in post-WWII Texas
• Bill Wolff (From Sing Out!)
• Lee Hays (From Sing Out!)
• My Letter To Cisco, by Moses Asch (From The Cisco Songbook)
• My Friend Cisco Houston, by Woody Guthrie (From The Cisco Songbook)
• Album Notes to Cowboy Songs 78, by Woody Guthrie
• Notes from a Letter, by Woody Guthrie
• Jimmy Giuffre One of the many guys Cisco hung out with in the 50s
• String Along by The Kingston Trio Cisco earns royalties

LP/CD Notes

• Harold Leventhal From the LP I Ain't Got No Home
• The Cisco Special Notes by Lee Hays
• Liner Notes from Cisco Houston Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie
• 900 Miles LP Liner Notes
• Cowboy Ballads Liner Notes
• Brief Biographical Essay by Ray Lawless
• Legendary CD (With Alan Lomax)
• Traditional Songs of the Old West (With Bill Bender)
• Best of the Vanguard Years CD

• Mark Eastman's Biography
• Nat Hentoff Reviews "I Ain't Got No Home"
• The SS Parismina Sinks And Cisco's brother Slim dies
• Best Of The Vanguard Years Review by Mike Regenstreif
• Blues For Cisco Houston Thomas McGrath's quirky poem
• April 1944 Cisco and Woody record and record.
• Olle Holmqvist Cisco finds a home in Sweden.
• George Pickow remembers Cisco Camp Unity in the 40s.
• Jim Clark on Cisco My memories.
• Cisco's Vocals Can he be too good a singer?
• Devin McKinney A music blogger blogs blogfully!
• Brian Crawley Nice notes about Dave Van Ronk and folk music!
• John Gallagher Cisco in Glasgow
• Gabriele Haefs Happy 100th Birthday!
• Patrick Murfin We are not alone!
• Chip Cooper Another fan draws Cisco and friends

Historical and Related Materials

• The Reuben James James Moran discusses the history and other versions of the song
• Billboard Magazine The March 19, 1955 issue discusses the "Gil Houston Show"
• Cisco's Gibson How did a wandering minstrel get a pricey guitar?
• Cisco on Film Well, at least he is in one we've seen!
• The Big Red Songbook Jesse Hamlin
• Who Is Charity Bailey? An obscure singer with quite a tale to tell!
• Katie Lee Friend, Lover? She doesn't say.
• The National Maritime Union Cisco's home for a while in the late 40's
• Robert Shelton on folk music and everything else
• Joe Hill
• Passing Through Richard Silverstein on the song and its meaning
• The Cradle Will Rock The cast list and links about Cisco's 1938 Broadway stardom.
• The Saga of Booger Red Kent Biffle documents the origins of East Texas Red.
• Cisco Mysteries What we don't know, or wonder about.

Provocative, But Not Enthusiastic

• Robert Christgau Misses the point, but writes some fascinating stuff

And Some More...

• Of Mice And Men Cisco's music captures the era and the hard times in a production of the play.
• Woody Guthrie's American Song Cisco on stage in Boulder.

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