There are few unexpurgated cowboy songbooks the chief one
being The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing. If you know
about any recording or songbook not listed below, we would appreciate receiving a
note at
.
Cowboy Poetry, Songbooks & Recordings
SONG BOOKS
1927 Immortalia: An Anthology of ... Cowboy Songs... [Thomas R. Smith]
1989 The Whore House Bells Were Ringing Guy Logsdon
RECORDINGS
1954? Castration of the Strawberry Roan [Sons of the Pioneers]
1981 Just Something My Uncle Told Me Various Artists
BOOKS
1976 The Cowboy: Six-Shooters, Songs, and Sex Charles W. Harris & Buck Rainey editors
1991 Red Neck & Cowboy Poems Ken Nelson
UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS
1945
Apples of Eden: A Private Collection of
American Folklore Anonymous
(Copy courtesy of Guy Logsdon)
1950 Songs of Eastern Idaho James Kenneth Larson
1960's? The Folklore Trade with Gershon Legman James Kenneth Larson
1972
[reorganized]
Countryside Folklore James Kenneth Larson
FIELD RECORDINGS
1960s?
Various cowboy songs Jim Hitchcock & others
(LC-AFS 17022
Library of Congress Folk Culture)
29 May 1969
Bawdy Strawberry Roan Glenn Orhlin in the
Max Hunter Collection
26 Nov 2004
Castration of the Strawberry Roan
Learned by Bud Weiss in 1962 (Jack Horntip Collection)