Cisco Houston LPs / CDs
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| # | year
of
release | title | label # / notes |
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| 1 | 1946 | V. A.: Songs To Grow On: School Days
Leadbelly
- Skip To My Lou
Cisco Houston
- Night Herding Song
Charity Bailey
- Don't We Look Pretty?
- Hey Betty Martin
Charity Bailey with Pete Seegar on banjo
- Pat Works On The Railway
- Driving Steel Cotton Needs Picking | three 7 inch 78 rpm 
Disc
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| 1a | 1951 | V. A.: Lonesome Valley
A Collection of American Folk Music sung by Pete Seeger, with Tom Glazer, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Bess Lomax, Baldwin Hawes, Butch Hawes, Dock Reese, Hally Wood, and Lee Hays
- Down In The Valley (Pete Seeger, Bess Lomax, Tom Glazer)
- The Rambler (Cisco Houston)
- Arthritis Blues (Butch Hawes)
- Polly Wolly Doodle (Pete Seeger, Bess Lomax, Tom Glazer)
- Lonesome Traveler (Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Bess Lomax)
- On Top Of Old Smoky (Cisco Houston)
- Black Eyed Suzy (Pete Seeger)
- Cowboy Waltz (Woody Guthrie)
- Sowing On The Mountain (Cisco Houston, Woody Guthrie) | 10 inch LP
rec. 1943-1946Folkways FP 10 
= Folkways FA 2010
= Smithsonian Folkways
custom-made CD 02010
 |
| 2 | 1953 | Cisco Houston:
900 Miles and other R.R. Songs
- 900 Miles
- ‘Getting Up’ Holler
- The Roamer
- Wreck Of The ‘97
- Hobo Bill
- The Great American Bum
- The Brave Engineer
- The Gambler
- The Rambler
- R.R. Bill
- Worried Man Blues | 10 inch LP 
= Folkways FP 13
= Folkways FA 2013 (1954)
= Smithsonian Folkways
custom-made CD 02013
(combined with FA 2022
"Cowboy Ballads")
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| 3 | 1952 | Cisco Houston:
Cowboy Ballads
- Chisolm Trail
- Riding Old Paint
- Diamond Joe
- Tying A Knot On The Devil’s Tail
- Stewball
- Little Joe The Wrangler
- Betsy From Pike
- Trouble In Mind | 10 inch LP 
Folkways FP 22
Folkways FA 2022 (1958)
= Smithsonian Folkways
custom-made CD 02022
(combined with FA 2013
"900 Miles and other ...")
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| 4 | 1954 | Cisco Houston:
Hard Travellin
- Hard Traveling
- Stagolee
- John B Sails
- The Frozen Logger
- Turtle Dove
- True Love On My Mind
- Dink's Song
- Hound Dog' Gypsy Dave
- Intoxicated Rat
- The Girl In The Wood | 10 inch LP 
Folkways FP 42
Folkways FA 2042
= Smithsonian Folkways
custom-made CD 02042
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| 5 | 1955 | Memorial To Woody Guthrie And Cisco Houston
- Take A Whiff On Me
- Bad Lee Brown
- The Golden Vanity
- Cumberland Gap
- Sourwood Mountain
- Old Time Religion
- Columbus Stockade
- Johnny Hard
- Foggy Mountain Top
- Buy Me Beneath The Willow
- Skip To My Lou
- Ezekiel Saw The Wheel | 
Melodisc MLP 12.106 (UK)
Melodisc MLP 12.106 (1959)
"More Songs by Woody
Guthrie & Cisco Houston"
= Stinson SLP 53 (1963)
"More Songs by Woody
Guthrie & Cisco Houston"
= Ember CW 135 (UK 1969)
"Cisco Houston
& Woody Guthrie"
= Archive of Folk Music
FS-205 "Cisco Houston"
re-released on Collectables
COL-CD-5605 (1995)
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| 6 | 1958 | Cisco Houston Sings American Folk Songs
- Rambling, Gambling Man
- Pat Works On The Railway
- Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
- The Killer
- Zebra Dun
- Old Reilly
- Going Down The Road
- St. James Infirmary
- Poor Howard
- Make Me A Pallet Down On Your Floor
- John Hardy
- Boll Weevil
- The Midnight Special
- Great July Jones | 
Folkways FA 2346
= Folkways FT 1012 (mono)
= FTS 31012 (stereo)
(1968)
= Smithsonian Folkways
custom-made CD 02346
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| 7 | 1958 | V. A.: Folk Music USA. Vol. 1
- John Henry - Virgil Perkins, Jack Sims
- Grizzly Bear: Negro Prison Camp Worksong
- Blowing The Train - Percy Randolph
- Six Thousand Miles From Nowhere - Snooks Eaglin
- Dark Was The Night - Blind Willie Johnson
- Amasee: Children's Ring Game Song
- Spooky Drums - Warren "Baby" Dodds
- Black Jack Davy - Mary Jo Davis
- Drunken Sailor: Dulcimer Medley
- Ellen Smith - Pete Steele
- Run, Run - Elizabeth Cotton [sic]
- Mole In The Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
- Rolling River: Country Dance
- Allons Danser Colinda: Cajun Dance - Roy Brule
- Sourwood Mountain: Square Dance Tune - Hobart Smith
- Diamond Joe: Cowboy Song - Cisco Houston
- Siete Leguas: Corrido - Peter Hurd
- Matachines Dance
- Moonlight Song: Taos Indian Serenade
- War Dance Song
- Esta Navidad: Puerto Rican Christmas Song
- Aguinaldo Cagueno: Puerto Rican Song
- Rocky Road: Shape-Note Singing - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
- If We Never Meet Again
- Inviting-In Dance Song | DLP
ed. Harold Courlander
Folkways FE 4530
custom CD from
www.folkways.si.edu
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| 8 | 1959 | Cisco Houston:
The Cisco Special!
- Badman Ballad
- Hard Traveling
- Nine Hundred Miles
- Old Smoky
- This Train
- Talking Dust Bowl
- This Land
- Old Man Tucker
- Colorado Trail
- Old Blue
- Chilly Winds
- Dark As A Dungeon
- I Don't Mind Marrying
- Big Rock Candy Mountain | 
Fontana TFL 60074 (UK)
= Vanguard VRS 9057
(US 1960)
= Top Rank 30/028
(UK 1960)
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| 9 | 1960 | Cisco Houston Sings Songs Of The Open Road
- Mule Skinner Blues
- Git Along Little Dogies
- Erie Canal
- Hobo's Lullaby
- East Virginia Blues
- Travel On
- Pie In The Sky
- Mysteries Of A Hobo's Life
- Soup Song
- Beans, Bacon And Gravy
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
- Cryderville Jail
- I Ain't Got No Home
track list of Albatros LP:
- Mule Skinner Blues
- Git Along Little Dogies
- The Erie Canal
- East Virginia Blues
- Travel On
- Beans, Bacon And Gravy
- Pie In The Sky
- The Job I Left Behind Me [= Mysteries ...]
- Soup Song
- Hobo's Lullaby
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
- Cryderville Jail
- I Ain't Got No Home | 
Folkways FA 2480= Le Chant Du Monde
FWX-M 52480 = Smithsonian Folkways
custom-made CD 02480
= Albatros VPA 8371
(Italy 1981)
"Pie In The Sky"
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| 9a | 1960 | V. A.: Songs Of The Civil War
Cisco Houston
- Both Shot Lincoln
| two album boxed set 
Folkways FH 5717
more info
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| 10 | 1961 | V. A.: The Newport Folk Festival 1960
Vol. 2
Bob Gibson
- This Little Light of Mine
- Wayfaring Stranger
- You can tell the World
- Well, Well, Well (with Bob Camp, Dick Rosmini and Herb Brown)
- Railroad Bill
Cisco Houston
- The Cat Came Back
- Hush Little Baby
- The Lavender Cowboy
Ed McCurdy
- Blood On The Saddle
- Handsome Molly
Peggy Seeger
- Willie Moore
Ewan McColl
- Lang A Growing
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
- Salty Dog Blues
- Before I met you
- Cabin On The Hill
- Jimmy Brown | 
Vanguard VRS 9084
= Vanguard VSD 2088
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| 10a | 1961 | V. A.: The LIFE Treasury Of American Folk Music
Gene Bluestein
- Skada At America
Fort Wingate Indian School Children
- Song Of Happiness
Navajo Chorus
- Riding Song
Alan Mills
- Ballad Of New Scotland
Gene Bluestein
- Ah, Si Mon Moine Voulait Danser
Hermes Nye
- Constitution And Guerriere
Pete Seeger
- The Knickerbocker Line
Alan Mills & Shanty Men
- Lowlands
Cisco Houston
- The E-R-I-E Canal
Alan Mills & Shanty Men
- Rio Grande
Mickey Miller & Bess Hawes
- Rosewood Casket
Alan Mills & Shanty Men
- Shenandoah
Hermes Nye
- I'm A Good Old Rebel
Huddie (Leadbelly) Ledbetter
- Ha Ha This A-Way
Hermes Nye
- Bonnie Blue Flag
Cisco Houston
- Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill
Woody Guthrie
- Billy The Kid
Logan English
- Sacramento
Woody Guthrie
- Hard Work
Hermes Nye
- Bonnie And Clyde
"Kid" Clayton & His Orchestra
- Gettysburg March | 
Life L-1001
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| 11 | 196? | Cisco Houston:
Cowboy Ballads And Railroad Songs
- The Chisolm Trail
- Diamond Joe
- Riding Old Paint
- Little Joe The Wrangler
- The Dying Cowboy
- Stewball
- Sweet Betsy From Pike
- Tying A Knot On The Devil’s Tail
- 900 Miles
- ‘Getting Up’ Holler
- The Roamer
- Wreck Of The ‘97
- Hobo Bill
- The Great American Bum
- The Brave Engineer
- The Gambler
- The Rambler
- Railroad Bill
- Worried Man Blues | 12 inch LP 
Le Chant Du Monde
FWX-50101 (Fr)
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| 12 | 1962 | Cisco Houston Sings Songs of Woody Guthrie
THIS LAND
- Pastures Of Plenty
- Ship In The Sky
- Deportees
- Grand Coulee Dam
- Sinking Of The Reuben James
CURLY HEADED BABIES
- Curly Headed Baby
- Ladies Auxiliary
- Taking It Easy
- Hard, Ain't It Hard
BIG MEN
- Jesus Christ
- Buffalo Skinners
- Pretty Boy Floyd
- Philadelphia Lawyer
LONE WOLVES
- Old Lone Wolf
- Talking Fishing Blues
- Ranger's Command
- Do Re Mi
- Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road | prod. by Harold Leventhal
and Lee Hays
Fontana TFL 6014 (UK)
= Vanguard VRS 9089
(US 1963)
= Vanguard VSD 2131
= Vanguard CD 2131-2
www.vanguardrecords.com |
| 13 | 1962 | Cisco Houston:
I Ain't Got No Home
- I Ain't Got No Home
- Waggoner's Lad
- New York Town
- Danville Girl
- Bonneville Dam
- Wreck Of The '97
- My Gal
- Tom Joad
- Talking Guitar Blues
- Rambling Round
- I'm A Dust Bowl Refugee
- Trouble In Mind
- East Texas Road
- Hobo Blues
- Streets Of Laredo
- Take My Hand - Didn't it Rain - This Land Is My Land | 
Vanguard VRS 9107
= Fontana FJL 412
(UK 1967) "The Legendary
Cisco Houston"
= Vanguard SRV 73006
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| 14 | 1963 | Nursery Rhymes, Games and Folk Songs sung by Cisco Houston
- London Bridge
- My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean
- Pumpkin Eater
- Three Blind Mice
- Humpty Dumpty
- Peas Porridge Hot What Are Little Boys Made Of?
- Yonder Tree
- Froggie Went A-Courting
- My Daddy
- Clickety Clack
- Mulberry Bush | 10 inch LP
Folkways FC 7606
= Scholastic SC 7606
(1966)
= Smithsonian Folkways
custom-made CD 07606
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| 15 | 1963 | Cowboy Songs sung by Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston
| 
Stinson SLP 32 |
| 16 | 1963 | Cisco Houston & Bill Bender: Traditional Songs Of The Old West
Cisco Houston
- Outlaw Horse
- Tying A Knot In The Devils Tail
- Drunken Rat
- Windy Bill
Bill Bender
- Joe Bowers
- Billy The Kid
- Bald Faced Steer
- Trail To Mexico | 10 inch EP 
Stinson SLP 37
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| 17 | 1963 | Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston:
Folks Songs, Vol. 1
| 
Stinson SLP 44
re-released on Collectables
COL-CD-5605 (1995)
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| 18 | 1964 | Cisco Houston
- Midnight Special
- Dan Tucker
- Venezuela
- Blow The Candles Out
- The Fox
- Molly Malone
- Red River Valley
- Ship In The Sky
- John Henry
- East Virginia Blues
- Haul Away Joe
- Down In The Valley
- Precious Lord
- Clickery Clack
- Black Is The Colour
- My Girl
- Talking Blues
- Frankie And Johnny | 
XTRA 1002 |
| 19 | 19? | Cisco Houston:
Passing Through
- It Takes A Worried Man
- Stewball
- Red River Valley
- Barbara Allen
- Down In The Valley
- Children Go Where I Send Thee
- The Cat Came Back
- East Virginia #2
- Little Dogie #2
- Mole In The Ground
- Old Blue
- John Henry
- Trouble In Mind
- Passing Through | 
Verve Folkways FVS 9002 |
| 20 | 1964 | Cisco Houston:
A Legacy
- Black Is The Color
- Molly Malone
- Frankie & Johnny
- Clickety Clack
- Venezuela
- Precious Lord
- Midnight Special
- Blow The Candle Out
- Haul Away Joe
- Talking Blues
- Black Girl
- Dan Tucker | 
Disc D-103 |
| 21 | 1965 | Woody Guthrie
& Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry, Leadbelly
- Springfield Mountain
- Hey Little Water Boy
- Chisholm Trail
- Rubber Dolly
- Lindburgh
- Hard Travellin'
- Jiggy Jiggy Bum Bum
- Put My Little Shoes
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- Yeller Gal
- Philadelphia Lawyer
- Ida Red | 
XTRA 1012 |
| 22 | 1972 | V. A.: The Greatest Songs Of Woody Guthrie
Cisco Houston
| 
Vanguard VSD 35/36 |
| 22a | 1976 | V. A.: U.S. Story
Cisco Houston
- Nine Hundred Miles
- Pie In The Sky
| DLP 
= Le Chant Du Monde
FWX 50107/8 (Fr)
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| 22a | 1976 | V. A.: American Songs To Sing
John Cohen
Woodie Guthrie
Cisco Houston
Robert Michael Jones
Alan Mills
Hermes Nye
Pete Seeger
Adelaide Van Way
| 
Scholastic SCC2745 |
| 23 | 1994 | Cisco Houston:
The Folkways Years 1944 - 1961
- I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore
- Hard Traveling
- Rambling Gambling Man
- Hobo Bill
- Better World A-Comin'
- Strawberry Roan
- The Great American Bum
- Intoxicated Rat
- The Cat Came Back
- The Frozen Logger
- Pat Works On The Railroad
- Dark As The Dungeon
- Diamond Joe
- The Girl in the Wood
- Ship In The Sky
- The Fox
- What Did the Deep Sea Say?
- St. James Infirmary
- Born 100,000 Years Ago
- The Preacher And The Slave
- Mysteries Of A Hobo's Life
- 900 Miles
- Great July Jones
- Picture from Life's Other Side
- Farmer's Lament
- The Killer
- I Ride An Old Paint
- Zebra Dun
- Passing Through | 
Smithsonian Folkways
CD 40059 |
| 24 | 1995 | Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston Vol. 1 & 2
- Gypsy Davy
- More Pretty Girls Than One
- Pretty Boy Floyd
- Buffalo Skinners
- Hey Lolly Lolly
- Lonesome Day
- John Henry
- Ranger's Command
- Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way
- Poor Boy
- Hard, Ain't It Hard
- Worried Man Blues
- Take A Whiff on Me
- Skip To My Lou
- Ezekiel Saw The Wheel
- Johnny Hart
- Columbus Stockade
- Foggy Mountain Top
- Sourwood Mountain
- Bad Lee Brown
- Cumberland Gap
- The Golden Vanity
- Old Time Religion
- Bury Me Beneath The Willow |
Collectables COL-CD-5605 |
| 25 | 1995 | V. A.: American Folksay: Ballads & Dances Vol. 5 & 6
Holly Wood
- Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies
Leadbelly
- Take This Hammer
Cisco Houston
- Hobo Bill
Woody Guthrie
- Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Pete Seeger
- Teeroo Teeroo
Holly Wood
- Johnson Boys
Cisco Houston
- The Rover
Woody Guthrie
- House Of The Rising Sun
Frank Warner
- Old Smokey
Davis, Gary & Sonny
- When The Train Comes Along
Leadbelly
- Corn Bread Rough
Tom Glazer
- Streets Of Loredo
- Down In The Valley
Ernie Liberman
- Foggy Dew
Pete Seeger
- Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn
Frank Warner
- Jolly Roving Tar
Woody Guthrie
- Froggie Went A-Courtin'
Pete Seeger
- Erie Canal
Ernie Liberman
- Soldier, Soldier
Woody Guthrie
- Cornbread, Meat & Molasses
- Ham And Eggs
- Lost John
- Chain Gang Blues
- It Takes A Chain Gang Man
- Betty And Dupree
- Stack-O-Lee
- Rock Me Momma
- Chain Gang Special | 
Collectables COL-CD |
| 26 | 2000 | Cisco Houston:
Best Of The Vanguard Years
- This Train **
- Roll On Columbia *
- Colorado Trail **
- Dark As A Dungeon **
- Hard Traveling **
- Old Blue **
- Nine Hundred Miles **
- Badman Ballad **
- Diamond Joe *
- John Hardy *
- Big Rock Candy Mountain **
- So Long It's Been Good *
- Buffalo Skinners
- Pastures Of Plenty
- Grand Coulee Dam
- Hand, Ain't It Hard
- Pretty Boy Floyd
- Do Re Mi
- Deportees
- Tramp On The Street *
- Talking Dust Bowl **
- This Land Is Your Land **
- Way Out There **
- Chilly Winds **
* previously unreleased
** never Issued on CD | 
Vanguard VCD 79574www.vanguardrecords.com |
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