Git Along, Little Dogies
Songs and Songmakers of the American West
Foreword by Austin E. Fife
Telling the stories of the West's ballads and cowboy songs
Paper – $21
978-0-252-06070-0
Publication Date
Paperback: 01/01/1989
Series: Music in American Life
About the Book
A former singing cowboy himself, John I. White spent decades compiling information on cowboy and western songs and the artists, songwriters, and others attached to them. He also sought out and corresponded with a who's who of the genre, people like Badger Clark, Curley Fletcher, D. J. O'Malley, Romaine Lowdermilk, Will Barnes, Joseph Mills Hanson, and Owen Wister.In Git Along, Little Dogies, White draws on old friendships and his exhaustive files to bring readers the untold story of cowboy and western song. Wonderful anecdotes stand beside White's trademark attention to detail as he painstakingly establishes the time, place, and circumstance behind each song's origin and places the music within the evolution of popular song. He also looks at how radio and recording affected the genre and shows how the music crisscrossed with pop music but also with folk and the traditional Anglo-Irish tradition.
From "Whoopee Ti Yi Yo" to "Ten Thousand Cattle Straying," Git Along, Little Dogies ventures from cow camps to saloons to big-city radio studios as it lassos a vivid piece of American music history.
About the Author
John I. White found fame as the Lonesome Cowboy on the radio drama Death Valley Days in the 1920s and 1930s. He later became a businessman and magazine writer. He died in 1992.Reviews
"A must for every individual who has an interest in the West and its people."--American West"The most pleasant, interesting, and utterly charming book I've read all year."--Bluegrass Unlimited
"John White the singer and performer adds both life and insight to the subject."--Journal of Country Music
"An excellent volume for folk music collections."--Library Journal
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