Volume 214: Badlands

How are we only on record five of this great seven record set? Because I continue to find gold in this box set filled with legendary songs about the old west.

Each record, or in this case each side of this collection had its own theme. Even with those guides, I might take a little poetic license when I name episodes like this. 

One side of this record is about things South Of The Border. The flip side mentions a thing or two about Legends And Sagas. Some you may know. Some have some pretty odd twists if you ask me.

So, get ready to hear plenty of "ahh aaahs" and stories about heroes and villains in what is technically Tumbling Tumbleweeds Record 5, Volume 214: Badlands.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Various – Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Label: Reader's Digest – RDA-229 / A
Format: 7 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Box Set
Released: 1982
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country

We will be listening to record 5, sides 1 and 2. 
We will hear 7 of the 12 tunes from this disk.

Eddy Arnold - The Ballad Of Jesse James
written by Billy Gashade

Red Foley - Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes
written by Slim Willet

Merle Travis - John Henry
Unknown, but One of the earliest written copies of this ballad, prepared by a W. T. Blankenship was published about 1900 or slightly earlier.

The Sons Of The Pioneers - A Gay Ranchero
written by Francia Luban, Abe Tuvim, Juan José Espinosa

The Sons Of The Pioneers - The Strawberry Roan
written by Nat Vincent, Fred Howard, Curly Fletcher, J.E. Patterson

Tex Ritter - Billy The Kid
A traditional song

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way)
written by Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

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