John Lomax and the Cowboy Blues - Deep West Radio from taki taki songs Watch Video
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Description: On the 100th anniversary of the famous book, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, Hal Cannon and Taki Telonidis explore the contribution of African Americans to cowboy life and music. This Deep West Radio documentary is a part of the Western Folklife Center/City Lore project about cowboy song collector John Lomax. The great trail drives of the 1870s came on the heels of the Civil War and a significant number of the cowboys working those cattle were freed slaves, who brought with them their m
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