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Take Me Back to the Range: Selections from Western Jubilee Recording Company

Various Artists
Take Me Back to the Range: Selections from Western Jubilee Recording Company

The Western Jubilee Recording Company is a small label with an exceptional catalog of authentic cowboy music and poetry. Founded in 1996 by Scott O’Malley, Western Jubilee has been based out of a former warehouse of the Santa Fe Railroad in Colorado Springs that doubles as an intimate concert space and recording studio. Its walls adorned with Western paraphernalia, the warehouse, much like the label itself, served as a sanctuary to the deep-rooted and ever-evolving traditions of Western music and folklife. Take Me Back to the Range: Selections from Western Jubilee Recording Company shows the label in its full breadth. From the old-time tunes and historic songs by Norman Blake and Don Edwards to Buckaroo poems from Waddie Mitchell, from Hollywood-styled “Singing Cowboy” songs from Sons of the San Joaquin to the pioneering fusion from the punk-inspired Cowboy Nation, this 18-track compilation, produced to celebrate the label’s acquisition by Smithsonian Folkways, showcases the diversity of sound and voices in cowboy music and poetry, honoring the label that has championed it.

Track Listing

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Peter Rowan & Don Edwards
04:12
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102
Norman Blake & Nancy Blake
03:19
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103
Wylie & the Wild West
03:19
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104
Waddie Mitchell
01:11
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105
Don Edwards, Waddie Mitchell, and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
05:45
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106
Katy Moffatt
04:31
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107
Rich O'Brien
04:00
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108
Georgie Sicking
00:45
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109
David Wilkie and Cowboy Celtic
03:25
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110
Norman Blake & Rich O'Brien
04:05
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111
Don Edwards
04:31
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112
Waddie Mitchell
00:18
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113
Michael Martin Murphey
03:33
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114
Cowboy Nation
04:12
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115
Tom Morrell
02:54
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116
Waddie Mitchell
00:58
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117
Norman Blake
04:30
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118
Sons of the San Joaquin
04:22