Elko! A Cowboy's Gathering (2005)

About this title: Since the 1990s, Americans have witnessed the biggest renaissance of cowboy poetry and singing since the silver screen appearance of yodeling cowpokes in the 1930-'40s. Of course there's no one -- popularity wise -- to compare to Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, and no one has offered any of these ranch hands acting contracts. Still, Elko!, a two-disc set recorded live at the 20th anniversary of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, represents the full flowering of contemporary cowboy music as well as marking it as an established movement. The wide array of styles within the form -- ... read more

Tracks:

1. Baxter on Elko [Black]
2. Ay Ay Ay [Traditional]
3. The Elevator Scale [Nelson]
4. Powder River, Let 'Er Buck [Lee]
5. International Glenn (Whatever That Is?) [Ohrlin]
6. The Drover Road to Amulree [Wilkie]
7. The Hooves of the Horses [Ogilvie]
8. Ragtime Annie
9. Not Gone [Haig]
10. Angels Can Do No More [Wilkinson]
11. Doctor Doctor [Hancock]
12. Geronimo's Men (45 Horses) [Chandler/LeJeune]
13. One Moment, Please! [Dofflemyer]
14. Plains of St. Augustine [Rogers]
15. Bizarzyski-Mad Bard & Carpenter Savant of Manchester, ... [Zarzyski]
16. Silver Spurs [Hannah/Craft]
17. Dream of Spotted Buffalo/Night Song of the Crow [Henry Real Bird]
18. The Time It Never Rained [Messersmith]
19. Roll on Owyhee [Tyson]
20. Things of Intrinsic Worth [McRae]
21. Spanish Is the Loving Tongue [Traditional]
22. We Are the Poets [Bennett]
23. Jerry Ambler [Tyson/Zarzyski]
24. Square-Head [LaRue]
25. Cattle Cattle in the Cane [Traditional]
26. Equus Caballus [Nelson]
27. Wild Places [Fleming]
28. Saying Grace Is Saying Thank You [Best]
29. Hooves of the Horses [Gustafson/Ogilvie]
30. Real Wealth [Godfrey]
31. Born to Be a Cowboy [Hampton]
32. Slant of Light [Brummels]
33. Big Bad Bill [Russell/Jones]
34. Full Value [Hayes]
35. Red River Rose [Steagall/Steagall]
36. Habitat [Allen]
37. All This Way for the Short Ride [Russell/Zarzyski]
38. Rooster Poem [Sicking]
39. Evening Chang [Mitchell]
40. The Campfire Has Gone Out [Traditional/Edwards]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.