Lonesome Prairie Love

Lonesome Prairie Love

Lonesome Prairie Love

Track Listings
 
1. Colorado Trail
2. I'd Like to Be in Texas
3. Tough and Wild
4. Brazos River Song
5. Rye Whisky/Grigsby's
6. Snag-Toothed Sal
7. My Cross-Eyed Gal
8. Maid of Argenta
9. Lonely Cowboy
10. My Old Waddy Pal
11. Sally Goodin'
12. Night Guard
13. Mexicali Rose
14. Border Affair
15. Pretty Pauline
16. 'Longside the Santa Fe Trail
17. Kissing on the Sly
18. Pinedale/Black Hill [Waltzes]

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Skip Gorman's disposition and mission may be a bit too modest for grand proclamations. Still, based on Lonesome Prairie Love and its near-equal predecessor, A Greener Prairie, he may be the Great White-Hat Hope of cowboy music. This 18-tune strong collection manages to assuage the traditionalist and progressive impulses of Western music fans without straining in either direction. New Englander Gorman displays exemplary taste in his song selections, rounding up such sentimental standards as "The Night Guard," "The Lonely Cowboy," and "Mexicali Rose." A gifted instrumentalist and likable vocalist, the former fiddle champ brings something new to what, in less sensitive hands, could come across as hoary standbys. In fact, this set may be the perfect gateway for anyone interested in delving into a great (albeit underappreciated) American genre. Check it out and the likes of Sons of the Pioneers and Tex Ritter will feel much more accessible. --Steven Stolder

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Lonesome Prairie Love
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • You can almost smell the mesquite...
  • passionate, understated, and sheerly pleasureful
  • If you like Ian Tyson, you'll like Skip Gorman too!
 Lonesome Prairie Love
Skip Gorman
Manufacturer: Rounder Select
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000002NU
Release Date: 1996-03-19

Tracks:

  1. Colorado Trail
  2. I'd Like To Be In Texas
  3. Tough And Wild
  4. Brazos River Song
  5. Rye Whiskey/Grigsby's
  6. Snag-Toothed Sal
  7. Cross-Eyed Gal
  8. Maid Of Argenta
  9. The Lonely Cowboy
  10. My Old Waddy Pal
  11. Sally Goodin
  12. The Night Guard
  13. Mexicali Rose
  14. Border Affair
  15. Pretty Pauline
  16. Longside The Santa Fe Trail
  17. Kissing On The Sly
  18. Pinedale/Black Hills (Waltzes)

Amazon.com

Skip Gorman's disposition and mission may be a bit too modest for grand proclamations. Still, based on Lonesome Prairie Love and its near-equal predecessor, A Greener Prairie, he may be the Great White-Hat Hope of cowboy music. This 18-tune strong collection manages to assuage the traditionalist and progressive impulses of Western music fans without straining in either direction. New Englander Gorman displays exemplary taste in his song selections, rounding up such sentimental standards as "The Night Guard," "The Lonely Cowboy," and "Mexicali Rose." A gifted instrumentalist and likable vocalist, the former fiddle champ brings something new to what, in less sensitive hands, could come across as hoary standbys. In fact, this set may be the perfect gateway for anyone interested in delving into a great (albeit underappreciated) American genre. Check it out and the likes of Sons of the Pioneers and Tex Ritter will feel much more accessible. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars You can almost smell the mesquite..........2000-08-05

If you've ever wondered how cowboy songs sounded in the old days, when it was just a bunch of cowpokes sitting around the campfire after a days work, then give this CD a listen. Skip Gorman has the heart and soul of the cowboy, and it comes through crystal clear in this recording. The songs range from the achingly beautiful ("Colorado Trail", "Brazos River Song") to the side-splittingly funny ("My Cross-Eyed Gal", a Gene Autry tune) to sprightly fiddle tunes ("Sally Goodin"). All are expertly performed, with excellent production values. The booklet which accompanies the CD is quite well done also - song lyrics, sources, liner notes, and so forth.

Should appeal to those who enjoy authentic tunes of the American West, or those who would like to grow up to be cowboys.

4 out of 5 stars passionate, understated, and sheerly pleasureful.......1998-10-20

Skip Gorman is one of a new generation of cowboy-oriented folk singers -- Ian Tyson, Don Edwards, and Michael Martin Murphey are the best-known of the lot -- who have revived the art of Western song. Here multi-instrumentalist Gorman showcases the familiar ("Colorado Trail," "Border Affair," the late Gene Autry's "Mexicali Rose") and the not-so-familiar ("Maid of Argenta," "The Lonely Cowboy," "My Old Waddy Pal") and sets them to spare, lonesome-prairie arrangements. ("Brazos River Song" appears, incidentally, as "Texas River Song" on Lyle Lovett's current CD, Step Inside This House.) Gorman's singing is at once passionate and understated. The overall effect is sheer pleasure, the sort of record you'll listen to so often it'll begin to feel like an old friend.

5 out of 5 stars If you like Ian Tyson, you'll like Skip Gorman too!.......1997-06-22

Great CD - fiddle-playing Texas cowboy singer! Songs include: Colorado Trail, I'd Like to Be in Texas (for the roundup in the spring), Tough and Wild, Brazos River Song, Rye Whiskey/Grigsby's, Snag-Toothed Sal, Cross-Eyed Gal, Maid of Argentina, The Lonely Cowboy, My Old Waddy Pal, Sally Goodin, The Night Guard, Mexicali Rose, Border Affair, Pretty Pauline, Longside the Santa Fe Trail, Kissing on the Sly, Pinedale/Black Hills.

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Love's Secret and Other Songs by American Composers
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Item not received.
  • A Nice Assortment
  • Important American art songs performed by superb recitalists
 Love's Secret and Other Songs by American Composers

Manufacturer: Vox (Classical)
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001K4P
Release Date: 1996-05-21

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  1. David Mourns For Absalom
  2. Briged's Song
  3. Sonatina To Hans Christian
  4. The Divine Image
  5. Love's Secret
  6. Polaroli
  7. The Frog And The Snake
  8. Valentine To Sherwood Anderson
  9. Send Home My Long Strayed Eyes
  10. Bedlam
  11. General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
  12. Come Away Death
  13. Calvinistic Evensong
  14. Blue Mountain Ballads: Heavenly Grass
  15. Blue Mountain Ballads: Lonesome Man
  16. Blue Mountain Ballads: Cabin
  17. Blue Mountain Ballads: Sugar In The Cane
  18. The Drummer
  19. The Faucon
  20. The Faucon: Looking Glass River
  21. Jazz-Boys

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  1. Alleluia
  2. Four Poems By Emily Dickinson: It's All I Have To Bring
  3. Four Poems By Emily Dickinson: So Bashful
  4. Four Poems By Emily Dickinson: To Make A Praire
  5. Four Poems By Emily Dickinson: And This Of All My Hopes
  6. Nuvoletta, Op. 25
  7. Death Be Not Proud
  8. Lullee, Lullay
  9. Waikiki, Op. 9, No. 2
  10. Stopping By Woods On Snowy Evening
  11. The Tiger
  12. The Sea, Op. 47, No. 7
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  14. I Rise When You Enter
  15. Dirge In Woods
  16. Sorrow Of Mydath
  17. Three By E. E. Cummings: Lady Will You Come With Me Into
  18. Three By E. E. Cummings: Now (More Near Ourselves Than We)
  19. Three By E. E. Cummings: Spring Is Like A Perhaps Hand
  20. Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
  21. Mourn! Mourn, Op. 53
  22. The Donkey

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Item not received........2006-01-15

I have not received this item yet. It is on back order. I had to rate it so put 3 stars. However sicne it hasn't been received I can't really rate it. You ought to take situations like this into consideration if you're going to do this sort of thing.

3 out of 5 stars A Nice Assortment.......2001-03-13

The CD contains a nice selection of songs from composers who we may not hear that much of. I bought this CD for Copland's Dirge in Woods and it was very nice. But I found some other nice treasures on this CD too. Four vocalists, two males and two females, take on this sometimes very challenging music. The music for the most part is not soft and languid both rather has some what we would think of as mid 20th century types of chords. Unless you're into that kinda of thing, you may not want to get this CD. These aren't master works, but just nice little songs a composer might of written while taking a break between writing operas or symphonies.

5 out of 5 stars Important American art songs performed by superb recitalists.......2000-05-30

This CD, a digital remastering of a recording originally released in 1962, is an extraordinary value for anyone interested in American art song, or simply in fine singing. I bought it because I wanted to hear Eleanor Steber's performance of Griffes's "Waikiki", which did not disappoint. But there are many other wonderful songs, all presented with great artistry. They range from the demanding complexity of Barber's "Nuvoletta" and Ives's "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" to the lyricism of the Ernst Bacon songs to texts by Emily Dickinson. The final song on the CD, John McCollum's performance of Henry Cowell's "The Donkey", is especially memorable; I recommend this version over the one on the Albany label's "Songs of Henry Cowell" CD (which I bought because my interest in Cowell's songs was raised by hearing "The Donkey").

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