The Essential Collection ( The Sons of The Pioneers)

Sons of the Pioneers - The Essential Collection ( The Sons of The Pioneers)

The Essential Collection ( The Sons of The Pioneers)
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Artist: Sons of the Pioneers
Brand: SONS OF THE PIONEERS
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-03-04
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. When Payday Rolls Around
  2. Love Song of the Waterfall
  3. Chant of the Wanderer
  4. Sagebrush Symphony
  5. West Is in My Soul
  6. A Cowboy Has to Sing
  7. Ridin' Home
  8. Springtime on the Range
  9. Cool Water
  10. Cajon Stomp [Instrumental]
  11. A Touch of God's Hand
  12. The Timber Trail
  13. There's a Rainbow Over the Range
  14. The Boss Is Hangin' Out a Rainbow
  15. Yippi Yi Your Troubles Away
  16. Trail Herdin' Cowboy
  17. Trail Dreamin'
  18. New Frontier
  19. He's Gone, He's Gone up the Trail
  20. Lord, You Made the Cowboy Happy
  21. The Texas Crapshooter [Instrumental]
Music CD 2
  1. So Long to the Red River Valley
  2. Blue Prairie
  3. Hold That Critter Down
  4. The Howlin' Pup [Instrumental]
  5. When the Prairie Sun Climbs Out of the Way
  6. One More Ride
  7. Blow, Wind, Blow
  8. Open Range Ahead
  9. Song of the Bandit
  10. Following the Sun All Day
  11. Whisperin' Wind
  12. By a Campfire on the Trail
  13. Happy Cowboy
  14. Over the Santa Fe Trail
  15. Whoopee Ti Yi Yo
  16. Tumbleweed Trail
  17. Wending My Way to Wyoming
  18. Kelly Waltz [Instrumental]
  19. Down Along the Sleepy Rio Grande
  20. When the Moon Comes over Sun Valley
  21. I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen

Music reviews of The Essential Collection ( The Sons of The Pioneers)

Music Review: Amazing stuff
Rating: 5 Stars

This music has made a really deep impression on me; it's pure, simple, honest and...historic---it preserves a sound, a vocal and instrumental style and a world view which I'm afraid is just about dead in 2004. A real pity. In fact, it's tragic.

So get this set and experience it! It's vintage PIONEERS, at the height of their fabulous art. The bare essentials---vocal trio, bass, 2 guitars and the astounding fiddling of Hugh Farr (who famous conductor Leopold Stokowski called one of the 2 greatest living violinists during the 1940's!)

Bob Nolan's "Song of the Bandit" is like a mythical American folkloric ballad--that third verse, when the bandit comes to the girl in her dream, complete with angels and a winged horse gliding down the moonbeams---whoa!! And yet, the tune is upbeat and energetic--not at all what you would expect from the lyrics.

"So Long to the Red River Valley" is another beauty---the haunting yodeling in the final verse, with Hugh's fiddle gently wailing away---it's true ART!

"Trail Herdin' Cowboy" is another rare gem---with more amazing fiddlin' from Mr. Farr, paricularly at the very end, when the voices go into what sounds like an extended "Amen" cadence.

"Whispherin' Wind" resembles a 19th-Century "parlor" Waltz tune--rather simplistic--yet the Pioneers arrangement and performance transform it into something remarkably elegant and touching.

This performance of Bob Nolan's masterpiece "Cool Water" is MUCH better than the later ones I've heard; the RCA version included on the "Cigareets & Whusky" cd is rushed and almost sounds like they were bored with it; this version, even though it ends a bit abruptly, really captures that mythical quality which we associate with the Old West, as man interacts with nature.

AND FINALLY----"Ridin' Home"---for me, the ultimate in the Pioneer's art---profoundly beautiful, the absolute essence of the romantic spirit of the Old West (unfortunately THIS TRACK is marred by some pretty harsh crackling from the old acetate master recording---but GOD, it's still so lovely!)

Wonderful music, beatifully preserved and re-mastered.

Incidentally, I am a "classical" (symphonic) conductor by profession, but this 2-cd set has given me some of the most satisfying musical enjoyment of the past 10 years.
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Media Type: CD
Artist: SONS OF THE PIONEERS
Title: ESSENTIAL COLLECTION
Street Release Date: 03/04/2003
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