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Always Drink Upstream from the Herd

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Released
  
October 31, 1995

Always Drink Upstream from the Herd (1995)
  
Cowboy Songs (1996)

Release date
  
31 October 1995

Genre
  
Western swing

Length
  
35:11

Artist
  
Riders in the Sky

Label
  
Rounder Records

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Great Big Western Howdy!, Cowboys in Love, Three on the Trail, Silver Jubilee, Best of the West

Words to the wise always drink upstream from the herd


Always Drink Upstream from the Herd is a studio recording by the Western band Riders in the Sky, released in 1995.

Contents

Awards

Winner of the Wrangler Award for Outstanding Traditional Album of 1995.

Track listing

  1. "Riding the Winds of the West" (Douglas Green) – 2:12
  2. "The Texas Polka" (Oakley Halderman, Vic Knight, Lew Porter) – 2:07
  3. "(Take Me Back to My) Boots and Saddle" (Teddy Powell, Walter Samuels, Leonard Whitcup) – 4:18
  4. "After You've Gone" (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton) – 3:22
  5. "The Trail Tip Song" (Too Slim) – 2:58
  6. "Desert Serenade" (Green) – 2:58
  7. "Rawhide" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 2:07
  8. "The Whispering Wind" (Green) – 4:01
  9. "The First Cowboy Song" (Green, McMahan) – 2:42
  10. "Idaho" (Basso) – 2:57
  11. "The Running Gun" (Jim Glaser, Tompal Glaser) – 2:41
  12. "Cattle Call" (Tex Owens) – 2:48

Personnel

  • Douglas B. Green (a.k.a. Ranger Doug) – vocals, guitar
  • Paul Crisman (a.k.a. Woody Paul) – vocals, fiddle
  • Fred LaBour (a.k.a. Too Slim) – vocals, bass

    • Songs

    1Riding the Winds of the West2:14
    2The Texas Polka2:08
    3Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle4:19

    References

    Always Drink Upstream from the Herd Wikipedia
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