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"Goodbye Old Paint" is a traditional Western song that was created by black cowboy Charley Willis. [1] The song was first collected by songwriter N. Howard "Jack" Thorp in his 1921 book Songs of the Cowboys. [2] Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [3]
The ' 50s progression (also known as the "Heart and Soul" chords, the "Stand by Me" changes, [1] [2] the doo-wop progression [3]: 204 and the "ice cream changes" [4]) is a chord progression and turnaround used in Western popular music. The progression, represented in Roman numeral analysis, is I–vi–IV–V. For example, in C major: C–Am ...
The 1960 follow-up More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs has a version of the original. Doc Watson's version, "St. James Hospital", combines some of the "cowboy" lyrics with a tune resembling "St. James Infirmary" and lyrics drawn from that song, and contains the unmistakable "bang the drum slowly" verse.
"Ragtime Cowboy Joe" was the radio show theme song for New York City's long running, award-winning public radio show, Cowboy Joe's Radio Ranch (1976–1988), hosted by Paul Aaron, New York's Cowboy Joe. During one of his radio shows Paul Aaron had the elder Joe Abrahams (the original Cowboy Joe) as a special guest.
In late 1975 and early 1976, Bruce's rendition of the song went to number 15 on the Hot Country Singles charts. This song was featured on Chris LeDoux's album released January 20, 1976, Songbook of the American West. Members of the Western Writers of America chose the song as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [3]
“My two producers picked up the guitar, started playing the chords and then we started writing it.” The lyrics came effortlessly. “I sang, ‘They know me and Jack Daniels got a history ...
The earliest written version of the song was published in John Lomax's Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads in 1910. It would first be recorded by Carl T. Sprague in 1926, and was released on a 10" single through Victor Records. [9] The following year, the melody and lyrics were collected and published in Carl Sandburg's American Songbag. [10]
Talk to people about Bingham and you hear variations on the same word: real. Charlie Sexton remembers when he realized it. Bob Dylan’s guitarist, a sort of ambassador for Austin music, was ...