Ladies and gentlemen, today I’m going to talk about the greatest cowboy singer Don Edwards. I don’t know whether others admit he is the greatest cowboy singer or not, but I do think he is, why? Because I damn love him and his songs, they are full of wild smell. I mean, they are natural. Well, let’s begin.
According to Wikipedia:
Don Edwards is a cowboy singer and guitarist who plays Western music. He has recorded several albums, two of which, Guitars & Saddle Songs and Songs of the Cowboy, are included in the Folklore Archives of the Library of Congress. Edwards also recorded the album High Lonesome Cowboy with Peter Rowan and Tony Rice.
In 1993 he appeared on Nanci Griffith’s Grammy Award winning album “Other Voices, Other Rooms” on which he accompanied Griffith on a Michael Burton song entitled “Night Rider’s Lament”. Edwards played the character Smokey in Robert Redford’s The Horse Whisperer. Edwards also performs the song “Coyotes” that plays during the final minutes of the documentary Grizzly Man.
In 2005, Don Edwards was inducted into the Western Music Association Hall of Fame.
You see, Don Edwards is really a great cowboy singer. He has recorded many albums, let’s take a look.
Discography:
- 1992 Songs Of The Trail
- 1993 Goin’ Back To Texas
- 1994 The Bard and the Balladeer: Live from Cowtown (with Waddie Mitchell)
- 1996 West Of Yesterday
- 1997 Saddle Songs
- 1998 Best Of Don Edwards
- 1998 My Hero, Gene Autry: A Tribute
- 2000 Prairie Portrait
- 2001 On the Trail (with Waddie Mitchell)
- 2001 Kin To The Wind: Memories Of [Marty Robbins
- 2004 Last Of The Troubadours: Saddle Songs Vol. 2
- 2004 High Lonesome Cowboy (with Peter Rowen)
- 2006 Moonlight & Skies
What do you think about these albums, have you enjoyed them? For me, I’ve heard most of them, they are perfect, just like the sound from the sky.
Don Edwards has become super popular these days, more and more people are listening his songs, many of his albums have become super hot, let’s take a look at them.
Top 5 Don Edwards Albums:
Heaven on Horseback (Jan 2009)
Tracklist:
1. Master’s Call
2. I Saw the Light
3. Amazing Grace
4. The Great Speckled Bird
5. Drift Along Lonely Cowboy
6. A Cowboy’s Prayer/Dim Narrow Trail
7. Make Me No Grave
8. Why Me
9. Pilgrim’s Progress
10. Cowboy’s Prayer
11. Wayfaring Stranger
12. Rounded Up In Glory
13. Angels Can Do No More
14. Strange Things Happening in the Land
Moonlight and Skies (Mar 2006)
Tracklist:
1. My Blue Heaven
2. St. Louis Blues
3. Land of My Boyhood Dreams
4. Boots and Saddle
5. That’s How the Yodel Was Born
6. Moonlight and Skies
7. Ragged But Right
8. Long Trail
9. Coyotes
10. Dusty Skies
11. Goodbye Old Pal
12. Can’t Shake the Sands of Texas from My Shoes
13. Dying Cowboy of Rimrock Ranch
Last Of The Troubadors (Jan 2006)
Tracklist:
1. Gone to Texas
2. The Habit
3. For Them That Lean To Lonesome
4. The Colorado Trail
5. Night Rider’s Lament
6. By The Silvery Rio Grande
7. Diamond Joe
8. The old Cowboy
9. Barbara Allen
10. Make Me A Cowboy Again For A Day
11. The Sierry Petes
12. The mormon Cowboy
13. Ft Worth Jail
14. Red River Valley
15. Green Grow The Laurel
16. When the Work’s All Done This Fall
17. Saddle Tramp
18. Lonely Wanderer
19. Following the cow trail
20. Chant of the night songs
21. West of the Round Corral
22. Windy Bill
23. Cowhand’s Last Ride
24. The Cowboy’s Home Sweet Home
25. Utah Carroll
26. Root Hog Or Die
27. The Rancher Feeds Us All
28. I Wanted to Die in the Desert
29. The Dying Cowboy Of Rimrock Ranch
30. The Campfire Has Gone Out
31. Cowboy’s Meditation
32. Here’s Lookin At You
A Prairie Portrait (Jan 2006)
Tracklist:
1. Texas Trilogy
2. Roundup in the Spring
3. Sage & Cedar I
4. Home on the Range
5. Commutin’
6. Annie Laurie/ Bad Half Hour
7. Irish Tune From County Derry (Danny Boy)
8. Santa Rosa Serenade
9. Throwback
10. West Of Yesterday
11. Ghost Riders in the Sky
12. Horses, Dogs and Cowboys
13. Cowboy Love Song
14. Sage & Cedar II
15. Shenandoah
16. Around the Campfire from a Prairie Portrait
My Hero Gene Autry (Jan 2005)
Tracklist:
1. Back in the Saddle Again
2. Way Out West in Texas
3. That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine
4. Ridin’ Down the Canyon
5. Dear Old Western Skies
6. My Hero Gene Autry
7. It’s My Lazy Day
8. Twilight on the Trail
9. Cowboy Blues
10. Mexicali Rose
11. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
12. There’s A Rainbow on the Rio Colorado
13. South of the Border
14. Let the Rest of the World Go By
15. Back in the Saddle Again
These are his most popular albums now, what do you think about them?
Well, what’s your opinion about Don Edwards and his songs? Do you love them?
If you want to learn more about Don Edwards or get his songs and albums, you can find them on Amazon and eBay.
