Cisco Houston's first solo album on Folkways Records represents a small portion of the artist's repertoire of American folk music. Extensive liner notes (complete with a glossary of cowboy slang such... more

Railroaders and cowboys share a need for music to bolster their spirits during long days and to celebrate night's freedom. Cisco Houston sings ballads from the range and from the lonesome track,... more

Cisco did much of his hard travelin' with Woody Guthrie—and Cisco earned his own place in folk-music history with unforgettable performances like these. This 1954 Folkways LP collected traditional as... more

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... more

In the liner notes, Cisco Houston writes that he's been from coast to coast at least thirty times and has traveled a "good part" of the world as well. This album presents thirteen songs about the... more