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Houston (1918-1961) was a vital figure in the folk music movement of the 1940s and 1950s. These 29 songs (including two with Woody Guthrie) feature material Cisco learned while working and traveling across the country: cowboy songs, railroad songs, hobo songs, union songs, work songs, protest songs, children's songs, and love songs.
Gilbert Vandine "Cisco" Houston (August 18, 1918 – April 29, 1961) was an American folk singer and songwriter, who is closely associated with Woody Guthrie due to their extensive history of recording together. Houston was a regular recording artist for Moses Asch's Folkways recording studio.
Discover The Folkways Years 1944-1961 by Cisco Houston released in 1994. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Cisco released scores of LPs on Folkways, and 29 cuts from those LPs are gathered on to a CD that covers 17 years of his recording career. We witness the maturation of Cisco, growing from tentative tenor to manly baritone, with performances that are assured and confident.
Dec 10, 2006 · Long-overdue collection from one of the seminal figures in American folk music, featuring 29 tracks-eight unreleased, including two duets with Woody Guthrie-drawn from the Folkways vaults. With notes by Guy Logsdon, and a full 73 minutes of songs. Wonderful album.
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Cisco Houston, along with Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry, and a few others, was an important early member of the song movement known as the urban folk revival. In his forty-two years of life, he stamped footprints in folk music that will endure the erasing winds of time.
