Description
Van Holyoak – Tioga Jim: Ranchhouse Songs And Recitations – Vinyl Record
Van Holyoak was a working cowman a singer and collector of cowboy songs. He started learning his first songs from his father, and as he pursued his hobby, added more songs as well as stories and poetry acquired from his fellow cowboys.
After he made field recordings for the University of Arizona, Holyoak became an increasingly familiar and popular figure at various folk festivals. His recordings include an authentic, unadorned version of “Strawberry Roan” and the humorous “The Gol-Durned Wheel.”
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic seal with jacket drill
Rounder Records 0108
Track Listing
True Blue Bill
Frost On The Cowboy’s Tarp
Big Red
Tioga Jim
The Frenchman’s Ranch
Cowboy, Go Union
John Norton Duffy
The Mustang With Wings
The Goldurn Wheel
a Cowboy’s Prayer
Boomer Johnson
My Life’s History
He Never Came Back
Clay Town Farm
Big Wicked Bill
Patonia, Pride of The Plains
Silver Jack
Terry Sloan
The Prisoner
Judge Roy Bean
Buckskin Joe
The Hellbound Train
The Sheepherder’s Lament
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