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Formats and Editions
1. Green Corn
2. Down by the Riverside
3. Intro
4. Good Man Is Hard to Find, A
5. End of This World
6. Under the Double Eagle
7. Over the Waves
8. Isle of Capri
9. When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder
10. St. Louis Blues
11. He's in the Jailhouse Now
12. Intro
13. Corrine Corrina/Careless Love
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. 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. Wyoming/Margie/My Wild Irish Rose
23. Talk
More Info:
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.