Track Listing
1. Tumbling Tumbleweeds
2. Call of the Canyon
3. Red River Valley
4. Purple Sage in the Twilight
5. Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle
6. Twilight on the Trail
7. There's a Rainbow on the Rio Colorado
8. Oklahoma Hills
9. Sioux City Sue
10. South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)
11. Last Roundup, The
12. Rounded up in Glory
13. Ridin' Down the Canyon
14. Singing Hills, The
15. Ole Faithful
16. Blue Shadows on the Trail
17. Ghost Riders in the Sky
18. Mule Train
19. Sing Me a Song of the Saddle
20. Old Chisholm Trail, The
21. There's a Gold Mine in the Sky
22. Home on the Range - (with The Cass County Boys)
23. Back in the Saddle Again
24. Rim of the Canyon
25. Hills of Wyoming, The
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Jerry Scoggins | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Gene Autry, The Cass County Boys.
Compilation producers: Cary E. Mansfield, Karla Buhlman, Johnny Western.
Recorded between August 14, 1939 and December 12, 1954. Includes liner notes by Johnny Western and O.J. Sikes.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
This is part of Varese Sarabande Records "Varese Vintage" series.
Gene Autry was the original singing cowboy, and his voice is still echoes in the warm tone of today's "new traditionalist" balladeers. This disc documents 25 of the tunes that the Western film star recorded over the span of 15 years (1939-1954). A distinction must be made here between country and Western music. These are clearly Western tunes, travelogues of sorts that tell tales of life out on the trails, among the tumbleweed, riding through the hills and valleys or prairie flatlands. This is outdoor music, made up of campfire melodies and cowboy refrains.
Classics "Home on the Range" and "Back in the Saddle Again" are found here, and these tunes wonderfully evoke the image of the vast open landscapes, along with "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" and "South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)." In addition, the lesser-known Autry ballads "Rim of the Canyon" and "Purple Sage in the Twilight" make this compilation even more interesting. The haunting "Ghost Riders in the Sky" is also presented here. This song has been dusted off many times throughout the decades, (including a 1998 VH1 Storytellers performance by Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash), revealing the time-tested quality of these tunes.
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