LPs
The Listing
Someday a comprehensive discography will be available, but Cisco, or actually Folkways, repeatedly released the same material on innumerable LPs, making that job a royal pain. This list includes LPs by Cisco Houston or the anthologies of some note on which he appears. Click on the name for a detailed description and illustrations.
Cisco's LPs:
- Nursery Rhymes Sung and Played by Cisco Houston 1948 Cub Records
- Cowboy Ballads Folkways 1952
- 900 Miles and other Railroad Songs Folkways 1953
- Hard Travelin' Folkways 1954
- Cisco Sings Folkways 1958
- Cisco Houston Songs of the Open Road Folkways 1960
- Cisco Houston Sings the Songs Of Woody Guthrie Vanguard 1961 (The only Cisco LP on CD as originally issued)
- The Legendary Cisco Houston Vanguard 1962
- The Cisco Special Vanguard 1961
- Passing Through Verve/Folkways 1963
- Nursery Rhymes, Games and Folksongs Scholastic 1963
- A Legacy Disc 1964
- The Legendary Cisco Houston: I Ain't Got No Home Vanguard 1967 (Re-issue of "The Legendary Cisco Houston")
- Cisco Houston Sings American Folksongs FT 1968 (Re-issue of "Cisco Sings")
- 2 French LPs Same stuff, different package
Cisco Among Others
- On The Ranch
- Folk Songs Volume 1 With Woody Guthrie Stinson 1952
- Archive of Folk Music
- The Greatest Songs Of Woody Guthrie Re-released on CD in 1988, the opportunity to see whether Cisco is the finest Woody interpreter.
- The Folk Box Just one song, Zebra Dun.
- Folk Song and Minstrelsy Another anthology, but this time featuring Cisco heavily.
- 1960 Newport Volume 2 The Folk Festival Perfection
- Lonesome Valley 1951 Folkways Release with Pete, Butch, Lee and some others
- Greatest Folksingers of the Sixties 1972 Vanguard
- Songs of the Civil War The only place to hear "Booth Shot Lincoln"
- Frontiers We don't have it, but we'd sure like to.
- Cowboy Songs A late 78 with 6 performances on 3 78s
- Odds & Ends A vaguely comprehensive listing of the innumerable LPs that recycled the same Cisco performances over and over and over and.....
"Re-issue" means the same material in the same order, though the number, cover, and name may be different.
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