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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:

  1. Nursery Rhymes Sung and Played by Cisco Houston 1948 Cub Records
  2. Cowboy Ballads Folkways 1952
  3. 900 Miles and other Railroad Songs Folkways 1953
  4. Hard Travelin' Folkways 1954
  5. Cisco Sings Folkways 1958
  6. Cisco Houston Songs of the Open Road Folkways 1960
  7. Cisco Houston Sings the Songs Of Woody Guthrie Vanguard 1961 (The only Cisco LP on CD as originally issued)
  8. The Legendary Cisco Houston Vanguard 1962
  9. The Cisco Special Vanguard 1961
  10. Passing Through Verve/Folkways 1963
  11. Nursery Rhymes, Games and Folksongs Scholastic 1963
  12. A Legacy Disc 1964
  13. The Legendary Cisco Houston: I Ain't Got No Home Vanguard 1967 (Re-issue of "The Legendary Cisco Houston")
  14. Cisco Houston Sings American Folksongs FT 1968 (Re-issue of "Cisco Sings")
  15. 2 French LPs Same stuff, different package

Cisco Among Others

  1. On The Ranch
  2. Folk Songs Volume 1 With Woody Guthrie Stinson 1952
  3. Archive of Folk Music
  4. The Greatest Songs Of Woody Guthrie Re-released on CD in 1988, the opportunity to see whether Cisco is the finest Woody interpreter.
  5. The Folk Box Just one song, Zebra Dun.
  6. Folk Song and Minstrelsy Another anthology, but this time featuring Cisco heavily.
  7. 1960 Newport Volume 2 The Folk Festival Perfection
  8. Lonesome Valley 1951 Folkways Release with Pete, Butch, Lee and some others
  9. Greatest Folksingers of the Sixties 1972 Vanguard
  10. Songs of the Civil War The only place to hear "Booth Shot Lincoln"
  11. Frontiers We don't have it, but we'd sure like to.
  12. Cowboy Songs A late 78 with 6 performances on 3 78s
  13. 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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