Artist: Cisco Houston
Author: traditional
Label: Folkways
Year: 1952
On lp Cowboy Ballads; used to work on western ranches and knew this canon as no other.
Covers:
Bob Dylan [knew it from Cisco Houston]
Charlie Butler's field holler, recorded by the Lomaxes in '37 and the Georgia Cracker's stomp from '27 (Okeh) are a different Diamond Joe, covered by John Mellencamp ('03).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)