Brown,Roy Street Singer CD

Cowboy Roy Brown was born in Arkansas on April 20, 1875, the son of a preacher. He and his sister learned to play guitar from their father who they accompanied when he played violin in church. In his twenties, Roy visited St Louis during the 1904 World's Fair and later moved to Kansas City, then Marion, Illinois and then drifted to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Deadwood, South Dakota. Roy eventually returned to St Louis where he was a street singer performing with his guitar and catalog of blues, folk and cowboy tunes. Roy and his band - a guitar named "Baby" and a kazoo named "Leon" - performed cowboy standards and popular tunes. All of which can be heard here on this collection of previously unissued mid-'50s recordings.

1. Green Corn 2. Down By the Riverside 3. Intro 4. A Good Man Is Hard to Find 5. End of This World 6. Intro 7. Corrine Corrina / Careless Love 8. Under the Double Eagle 9. Over the Waves 10. Isle of Capri 11. When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder 12. St. Louis Blues 13. He's in the Jailhouse Now 14. Irene 15. Empty Cot in the Bunkhouse Tonight / Have I Stayed Away Too Long 16. Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home 17. Down in the Valley / Birmingham Jail 18. She's Too Fat / Roll Out the Barrel / Beer Barrel Polka 19. Trouble in Mind 20. You Are My Sunshine 21. Come Sit By My Side 22. Talk 23. Talk