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Cisco Houston

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Gilbert Vandine 'Cisco' Houston (August 18, 1918 – April 29, 1961) was an American folk singer and songwriter who is closely associated with Woody Guthrie due to their extensive history of recording together. Houston was a regular recording artist for Moses Asch's Folkways recording studio. He also performed with such folk/blues musicians as Lead Belly, Sonny Terry, and the Almanac Singers. Gilbert Vandine Houston was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on August 18, 1918, the second of four children.

Top songs

  1. The Dying Cowboy
  2. Diamond Joe
  3. Passing Through
  4. Born 100,000 Years Ago
  5. Dark As A Dungeon
  6. Chisholm Trail
  7. Hard Traveling
  8. I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
  9. I Ride An Old Paint
  10. Trouble In MInd
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  1. Deportees
  2. The Great American Bum
  3. 900 Miles
  4. The Killer
  5. Little Joe, the Wrangler
  6. Railroad Bill
  7. skip to my lou
  8. Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
  9. Mysteries Of A Hobo's Life
  10. The Cat Came Back
  11. This Land Is Your Land
  12. Do Re Mi
  13. Ship In The Sky
  14. Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tail
  15. Sweet Betsy from PIke
  16. Dark As The Dungeon
  17. The Tramp
  18. Stewball
  19. Pastures Of Plenty
  20. The John B. Sails (Sloop John B.)
  21. Big Rock Candy Mountain
  22. Hobo Bill
  23. The Frozen Logger
  24. Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Dogies
  25. St. James Infirmary
  26. Jesus Christ
  27. The Preacher And The Slave (Pie In The Sky)
  28. Buffalo Skinners
  29. Curly Headed Baby
  30. The Girl In The Wood
  31. Pie In The Sky
  32. Rambling Gambling Man
  33. The Fox
  34. Pretty Boy Floyd
  35. Ezekiel Saw The Wheel
  36. Great July Jones
  37. Intoxicated Rat
  38. Better World A-Comin'
  39. Grand Coulee Dam
  40. Zebra Dun
  41. Beans, Bacon And Gravy
  42. I Ain't Got No Home
  43. Crawdad Hole
  44. The Intoxicated Rat
  45. Pat Works On The Railroad
  46. Strawberry Roan
  47. Rambling, Gambling Man
  48. Stagolee (Stagger Lee)
  49. Saint James Infirmary
  50. John Hardy
  51. Worried Man Blues
  52. What Did the Deep Sea Say?
  53. Farmer's Lament
  54. My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
  55. The Roamer
  56. Old Lone Wolf
  57. The Midnight Special
  58. Pat Works on the Railway
  59. Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road
  60. The Rambler
  61. The Wreck of the Old 97
  62. Hard, Ain'T It Hard
  63. East Virginia
  64. Old Blue
  65. Soup Song
  66. the job i left behind me
  67. Gettin' Up Holler
  68. Philadelphia Lawyer
  69. The Gambler
  70. Taking It Easy
  71. The Brave Engineer
  72. Hobo's Lullaby
  73. Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
  74. cumberland gap
  75. Erie Canal
  76. Cryderville Jail
  77. Pat Works on the Railroad (Paddy Works on the Railroad)
  78. Ladies Auxiliary
  79. Done Laid Around
  80. Roll On Columbia
  81. Dink's Song
  82. Picture From Life's Other Side
  83. Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
  84. Old Paint
  85. Talking Fishing Blues
  86. Muleskinner Blues
  87. take a whiff on me
  88. Nine Hundred Miles
  89. Turtle Dove
  90. Hound Dog

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