My son’s in-laws recently moved to Wyoming from West Virginia. Becky, his mother-in-law, listens to our program in the gym, and she requested “a cowboy show” so this week’s show is dedicated to Rick and Becky in Cody, Wyoming. We'll hear classic cowboy music from Lead Belly, Powder River Jack and Kitty Lee, Jack Guthrie and many more. The program also includes some more contemporary songs, too ... from Dom Flemons, Kathy Johnson, Jim Kweskin, and, of course, Riders in the Sky. Songs in the Cowboy Way … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

Episode #18-18: The Cowboy Way

Host: Tom Druckenmiller

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

Wayne Erbsen / “Texas Quickstep” / Cowboy Songs of the Wild Frontier / Native Ground

Dom Flemons / “Home on the Range” / Presents Black Cowboys / Smithsonian Folkways

Lead Belly / “Western Cowboy” / Deep River of Song: Black Texicans / Rounder

Jim Kweskin / “The Tenderfoot (Cowboy)” / Unjugged / Hoenbeam

Crockett Family / “Buffalo Gals Medley” / When I Was A Cowboy Vol.2 / Yazoo

Powder River Jack & Kitty Lee / “Tying Knots in the Devil's Tail / When I Was A Cowboy Vol.1 / Yazoo

Glenn Ohrlin / “The High-Tone Dance” / The Cowboy Tour / Rounder

Waddie Mitchell / “The Old Nighthawk” / Live / Shanachie

Wayne Erbsen / “Sally Goodin” / Cowboy Songs of the Wild Frontier / Native Ground

Dom Flemons / “Little Joe the Wrangler” / Presents Black Cowboys / Smithsonian Folkways

Girls of the Golden West / “Round-Up Time in Texas” / Flowers in the Wildwood / Trikont

Jack Guthrie / “Oklahoma Hills” / Swinging Hollywood Hillbillies-Hillbilly Cowboys / Proper

Patsy Montana / “I Want to be a Cowboy Sweetheart” / Columbia Country Classics Vol.1 / Columbia

Ray Bierl / “Blue Mountain” / Cowboy Dancing / Greasy String

Kathy Johnson / “Happy Trails” / Way Out West / Singing Bridge

Riders in the Sky / “Rawhide” / Always Drink Upstream from the Herd / Rounder

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways