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Singin' Sam's albums "Saddle bag
of Songs" and "Singin' Sam and Friends" are both
being re-released on CD and will soon be available on this
site. Singin' Sam's "City Boarders" also
appears on the popular compilation Back in the Saddle Again
from New World Records. This great compilation of cowboy
songs is now available on CD at www.newworldrecords.org
BACK IN
THE SADDLE AGAIN
AMERICAN COWBOY SONGS
City Boarders
- Sam Agins
New World Records
Sam Agins; Jules Verne Allen;
Rex
Allen; The Arizona
Wranglers; Gene Autry; Wilf Carter;
Slim Critchlow;
Chris LeDoux; Girls of the Golden West; Van Holyoak; Harry
Jackson; Ken Maynard; Mac
McClintock; Patsy Montana;
Glenn Ohrlin; Tex Owens; Powder
River Jack and Kitty Lee; John G. Prude; Glen Rice and His Beverly
Hill Billies; Riders in the Sky; Tex Ritter; Jimmie
Rodgers; Sons of the Pioneers; Carl T. Sprague; Texas Ruby; John
White; Marc Williams; Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys; and
others
This double-CD set is the
definitive historical cowboy and western music anthology. The
recordings herein date from 1925 (Carl T. Sprague’s best-selling
“When the Work’s All Done This Fall”) to 1980 (“Cowboy Song” by
Riders in the Sky). The twenty-six other tracks on this collection
fill in the gaps in between.
If it’s classic recordings by
the well-known western artists that you want, they’re here: Tex
Ritter's “A-Ridin' Old Paint,” Patsy Montana’s million selling “I
Want To Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart,” “My Dear Old Arizona Home” by Rex
Allen, and, of course, Gene Autry’s “Back in the Saddle Again.” The
Texas Playboys are represented by “Cowboy Stomp,” while the Sons of
the Pioneers’ 1940 Orthoacoustic transcription of “One More Ride”
appears on this album. There are a lot of great songs by
lesser-known figures, too; Singin' Sam Agins' "City Borders,"
Haywire Mac’s rousing “The Old Chisholm Trail,” Marc William’s moody
“Sioux Indians,” Tex Owens’ “Cattle Call,” and Wilf Carter’s “Little
Old Log Shack I Always Call My Own” are all cowboy classics.
This collection was produced by Charlie Seemann of the
Country Music Foundation, and comes with a 24-page booklet with
extensive notes concerning the recordings, and a beautiful C.M.
Russell painting on the cover. If you have any interest in hearing
some great old cowboy songs and recordings, don’t pass this one up.
—Cowboy Magazine
The American infatuation with the
heroic cowboy image has been reflected over the years not only in
our image has been reflected over the years not only in our
literature and motion pictures, but in our music. Although the long
cattle drives of the late 1800s, which gave rise to the true cowboy,
were a thing of the past by the turn of the century, a hundred years
later we still find ourselves enthralled by the cowboy and the
symbol he has come to be in American culture. It is curious to find
that an anachronistic form of occupational folk song is still of
great interest today, providing inspiration for American popular
music and evolving into a genre of “western” or pseudo-cowboy music
ranging from the early radio “singing cowboys” of the 1920s to the
urban cowboys of today. Through this music we have kept alive the
personification of values which we Americans like to think are
representative of our way of life: individual freedom, strength,
self-reliance, toughness and honesty. We would still like to believe
in the frontier virtues. Back in the Saddle Again
examines the roots of cowboy and western music in the traditional
occupational folk songs of the old-time working cowboy and traces
its evolution through the popular, romantic cowboy theme songs of
contemporary country music. --Charlie
Seeman
HAYWIRE Record
Co.
Singin' Sam's first
album Singin' Sam's Saddlebag Of
Songs, produced by Haywire Record Co. in
the early1970's, is now available on CD! Please contact us for ordering info.
Singin' Sam's
Saddlebag of Songs
Singin' Sam
Agins
Singin' Sam's Saddlebag of
Songs was Sam's
first and most popular album. This album is all
Sam! Just him and his guitar. Songs included on this
album are -
1. Introduction
2. Little Joe The Wrangler 3. Old Chisolm
Trail 4. Sirree Peaks 5. City
Boarders 6. Punchin' the Dough 7.
10,000 Years Ago 8. Hairtrigger newt 9.
Rawhide Rope 10. Jake and Rony 11.
Strawberry Roan 12. Plink Plunk 13. Red
River Valley
Singin' Sam's Second album
Singin' Sam &
Friends, produced by Haywire Record Co. in
the mid 1970's, is now available on CD! Please contact us for ordering info.
Click on the record icon below to listen to the song Red
Elk.
SINGIN'
SAM & FRIENDS
Singin' Sam
Agins
"A man who travels as much
as I do makes lots of friends. Each friend is made
through a common interest. The following are some of my
musical friends, who graciously consented to helping me with this
album" Singin
Sam Agins
Sam Agins accompanied by friends - Len Bacon,
Jim Hawkins, Sunny Joe Wolverton and Kirk Opyt
1. Philadelphia Lawyer 2. Peon Named
Pancho 3. Had But Fifty Cents 4. Dearly
Beloved 5. Good Old Mountain Dew 6. Silver
Haired Daddy 7. Cowboy Nick 8. South
Coast 9. Goin' Back 10. Iron Pants
Pete 11. Cat Came Back 12. Red
Elk
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