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

101	Take Me Back to the Range	Peter Rowan & Don Edwards	04:12
102	The Sunny Side of Life	Norman Blake & Nancy Blake	03:19
103	Where Horses Are Heroes	Wylie & the Wild West	03:19
104	Typical	Waddie Mitchell	01:11
105	Annie Laurie / Bad Half Hour	Don Edwards, Waddie Mitchell, and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra	05:45
106	Hallie Lonigan	Katy Moffatt	04:31
107	Santa Rosa Serenade	Rich O'Brien	04:00
108	Rooster Poem	Georgie Sicking	00:45
109	Bonnie Dundee / Fareweel Tae Tarwathie / The Railroad Corral	David Wilkie and Cowboy Celtic	03:25
110	Flop-Eared Mule	Norman Blake & Rich O'Brien	04:05
111	Coyotes	Don Edwards	04:31
112	Waddie-ism-8	Waddie Mitchell	00:18
113	Summer Ranges	Michael Martin Murphey	03:33
114	Two Miles to Town	Cowboy Nation	04:12
115	Lupus #1	Tom Morrell	02:54
116	Harsh Words	Waddie Mitchell	00:58
117	Cloverdale Plantation March	Norman Blake	04:30
118	From Whence Came the Cowboy	Sons of the San Joaquin	04:22