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Frontier Favorites: Old-Time Music of the Wild West by Mark Gardner & Rex Rideout

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Traditional Folk | Western

21 tracks | 55 minutes

Released Aug 2003
on Mark Gardner & Rex Rideout

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sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:23 Old Dan Tucker (Daniel D. Emmett, et al., 1843) lyrics BUY MP3 02:23 Old Dan Tucker (Daniel D. Emmett, et al., 1843) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:23 Old Dan Tucker (Daniel D. Emmett, et al., 1843)
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:36 The Arkansas Traveller (trad., 1847) lyrics BUY MP3 01:36 The Arkansas Traveller (trad., 1847) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:36 The Arkansas Traveller (trad., 1847)
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:20 Oh! Susanna (Stephen C. Foster, 1848) lyrics BUY MP3 03:20 Oh! Susanna (Stephen C. Foster, 1848) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:20 Oh! Susanna (Stephen C. Foster, 1848)
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:40 De Boatman's Dance (Daniel D. Emmett, et al., 1843) lyrics BUY MP3 02:40 De Boatman's Dance (Daniel D. Emmett, et al., 1843) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:40 De Boatman's Dance (Daniel D. Emmett, et al., 1843)
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:07 Buffalo Gals (orig. Lubly Fan, John Hodges, 1844) lyrics BUY MP3 02:07 Buffalo Gals (orig. Lubly Fan, John Hodges, 1844) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:07 Buffalo Gals (orig. Lubly Fan, John Hodges, 1844)
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sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:35 Turkey in the Straw (orig. Zip Coon, circa 1830) lyrics BUY MP3 01:35 Turkey in the Straw (orig. Zip Coon, circa 1830) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:35 Turkey in the Straw (orig. Zip Coon, circa 1830)
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:13 Old Rosin the Beau (anon., 1838) lyrics BUY MP3 04:13 Old Rosin the Beau (anon., 1838) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:13 Old Rosin the Beau (anon., 1838)
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:25 Camptown Races (Stephen C. Foster, 1850) lyrics BUY MP3 01:25 Camptown Races (Stephen C. Foster, 1850) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:25 Camptown Races (Stephen C. Foster, 1850)
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:12 Old Joe Clark (trad., late 19th century) lyrics BUY MP3 03:12 Old Joe Clark (trad., late 19th century) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:12 Old Joe Clark (trad., late 19th century)
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:50 Soldier's Joy (orig. The King's Head, trad., 1700s) lyrics BUY MP3 01:50 Soldier's Joy (orig. The King's Head, trad., 1700s) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:50 Soldier's Joy (orig. The King's Head, trad., 1700s)
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:20 Song of Texas (lyrics anon., c. 1845; melody Jim Sanford, 1844) lyrics BUY MP3 02:20 Song of Texas (lyrics anon., c. 1845; melody Jim Sanford, 1844) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:20 Song of Texas (lyrics anon., c. 1845; melody Jim Sanford, 1844)
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:27 Capt. Jinks of the Horse Marines (Lingard & Maclagan, 1868) lyrics BUY MP3 02:27 Capt. Jinks of the Horse Marines (Lingard & Maclagan, 1868) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:27 Capt. Jinks of the Horse Marines (Lingard & Maclagan, 1868)
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:31 The Girl I Left Behind Me (trad., 1600s Ireland) lyrics BUY MP3 01:31 The Girl I Left Behind Me (trad., 1600s Ireland) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:31 The Girl I Left Behind Me (trad., 1600s Ireland)
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:18 Garry Owen (trad., late 1700s Ireland) lyrics FREE 01:18 Garry Owen (trad., late 1700s Ireland) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:18 Garry Owen (trad., late 1700s Ireland)
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sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:43 Gen. Pike's Dixie (lyrics Albert Pike, 1861; melody Dan Emmett) lyrics BUY MP3 03:43 Gen. Pike's Dixie (lyrics Albert Pike, 1861; melody Dan Emmett) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:43 Gen. Pike's Dixie (lyrics Albert Pike, 1861; melody Dan Emmett)
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:14 Lorena (H. D. Webster and J. P. Webster, 1857) lyrics BUY MP3 06:14 Lorena (H. D. Webster and J. P. Webster, 1857) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:14 Lorena (H. D. Webster and J. P. Webster, 1857)
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:06 Grandfather's Clock (Henry C. Work, 1876) lyrics BUY MP3 02:06 Grandfather's Clock (Henry C. Work, 1876) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:06 Grandfather's Clock (Henry C. Work, 1876)
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:28 The Santa Fe Trail (James Grafton Rogers, 1911) lyrics BUY MP3 03:28 The Santa Fe Trail (James Grafton Rogers, 1911) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:28 The Santa Fe Trail (James Grafton Rogers, 1911)
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Documented ballads and songs performed on vintage instruments that convey the full sweep of the Western experience, from the early minstrel show to the Victorian parlor, including a healthy dose of music from the Mexican, Civil, and Indian wars.

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Mark Gardner and Rex Rideout are today's premier performers and interpreters of the historic music of the American West. Gardner, in addition to his music, is a prolific historian and writer focusing on the 19th-century Western experience. His books include "Wagons for the Santa Fe Trade: Wheeled Vehicles and Their Makers, 1822-1880" (University of New Mexico Press) and "The Mexican War Correspondence of Richard Smith Elliott" (co-authored with Marc Simmons, University of Oklahoma Press). Gardner's first CD, "Songs of the Santa Fe Trail and the Far West" (Native Ground Music) has been used on the soundtracks of several television documentaries, most notably "The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848," a PBS documentary that aired nationally in 1998. Rex Rideout (www.TimeTravelMusic.com), a long-time student of the music of the American West, works in the Geology Department at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden.

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From the well known fiddle tune "Arkansas Traveller" to obscure pieces such as "Capt. Jinks of the Horse Marines," Gardner and Rideout's "Frontier Favorites: Old-Time Music of the Wild West" offers a variety of historic popular music rarely heard on one release. A wide selection of period instruments were used in the recording: fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar, bones, and even jawbone! Gardner used six different banjos to offer different historic textures for the listener, including a reproduction 1840s tack-head banjo, a circa 1900 S.S. Stewart Universal Favorite, and a 1963 Vega Folk Ranger. Period playing styles were also used throughout to make the music as authentic as possible.

Gardner and Rideout, in conjunction with the Museum of New Mexico, have recently released a book and CD of historic cowboy songs collected and written by famed ballad hunter N. Howard "Jack" Thorp during the late 1800s and early 1900s (this super book & CD combo is also available through CD Baby). Gardner's feature article on Thorp appeared in the March 2004 issue of "New Mexico Magazine."

Following is a review of "Frontier Favorites" by popular Colorado author and musician Jon Chandler:

There is a scratchy wax recording of my great grandfather Morgan Patterson fiddling Turkey in the Straw, cut on his 80th birthday sometime in the late 1940's. After a few moments of dissonance as the modern ear relearns the musical language of a bygone era, the song becomes thrilling, guiding the mind's eye into America's past. When I slipped Frontier Favorites: Old-Time Music of the Wild West into the CD player and advanced it to Turkey in the Straw, Rex Rideout's fiddle burst from the speakers as if played by Morgan at a Southern Colorado barn dance in the 1880's. The hair on my neck stood up for a good ten minutes.

With Frontier Favorites, Rideout and his musical cohort Mark Gardner have created a stylistically accurate period piece filled with 21 tunes that are historically exact, yet can be appreciated by contemporary sensibilities. Sound, composition, instrumental technique and vocal technique - each is absolutely perfect, a dramatic tribute to our frontier legacy. In essence, the songs of the American Frontier are brought to life in exactly the form they would have been heard a century and a half ago.

This is no revisionist project, with smooth 21st century licks played on $10,000 humidified guitars, and vocals sung in 1990's Texas-speak by slicks who likely think Garry Owen is a game show host. No, this is history, with all its beauty and warts intact. It is eerily accurate, performed with skill and devotion by musical historians who could easily be transported to 1850 and not be found out! Mark Gardner and Rex Rideout have done more than just record the tunes of the American Frontier. They have recreated the music through exacting research combined with impressive musical ability. What they bring to the listener is the prototype for Country, Americana, Western and Folk music; before Nashville, before Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams and Uncle Dave Macon. Its instrumentation was portable and nearly primitive, with fiddle, banjo, mandolin and bones taking center stage in an era when guitars were a rarity.

The music on this disc is precisely what your ancestors heard, what they danced to. It encompasses the songs they sang and the tunes they hummed. It's a musical journey to the mid-19th century that transcends cultural nostalgia; this music is realistic enough in style and content to have been played and sung in its exact form on the Western frontier.

This is an essential recording for those who seek to understand the roots of America's music. It is rollicking, it is exhilarating, and most of all, it is real.

Jon Chandler

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