MP3 Marshall Trimble - Marshall Trimble: Old Songs They´ll Never Plow Under

In the folk styles of Johnny Cash.

17 MP3 Songs in this album (59:31) !
Related styles: COUNTRY: Country Folk, FOLK: Traditional Folk

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Marshall Trimble is one of Arizonaâs most popular and colorful personalities. Heâs often referred to as the âWill Rogers of Arizona.â Marshall is Arizonaâs Official Historian, and the award-winning author of more than twenty books on Arizona and the West. His stories are heard daily on radio stations around the state. He also hosted an Emmy-winning television show, âArizona Backroads."
Trimble answers questions about the Old West from readers all over the world in "True Westâ magazineâs popular column, "Ask the Marshall."
The "Arizona Republic" calls him the stateâs "most recognizable goodwill ambassador," and in 2007 the Governorâs Council on the Arizona Office of Tourism presented him with its first âLifetime Achievement Award.â He was recently inducted into the Arizona Veteranâs Hall of Fame and the Scottsdale Hall of Fame. Also, the Daughters of the American Revolution presented him with their Medal of Honor for patriotism and leadership.
To learn more about Marshall go to www.marshalltrimble.com
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Line Notes: Old Songs Theyâll Never Plow Under

âThe Minstrelâs Song.â
Arizona native Dean Cook is one of my favorite songwriters. I hear one of his songs and say to myself, âHe must have written this just for me.â This song describes wonderfully everything folksingers and storytellers feel when they perform for their audiences.

âTall Tales and Treasures.â
Anyone lucky enough to have a storyteller for a dad can appreciate this Dean Cook song. It begins with, Up on Stoneman Lake, when I was just a kid, my dad said when you pass here look around. Those outlaws came this way with that stolen Clarkdale payroll, they were caught but the loot was never found. Weâve all dreamed of finding buried treasure but the real treasure for me was finding this song.

âKokopelli.â
Dean Cook wrote this song about the now-famous hump-backed flute player who visited Arizona during pre-historic times. It's said that whenever he visited a Pueblo village all the young women became pregnant soon after. To this day heâs revered as a fertility symbol. Among the Zuni Indians heâs also thought to bring rain to a dry land. Deanâs song raises the question, âWhat would Kokopelli think if he returned today and saw his image on everything from saloons and restaurants to coffee mugs and used car lots?â

âWhere Do You Go When There's No Place to Go on the Bright Angel Trail?â
Dean Cook overheard a group of ladies discussing the merits of riding a mule down the Grand Canyon's Bright Angel Trail in Flagstaff one day and when the conversation turned to whether or not there were toilet facilities along the trail he was inspired to pen this song.




âJocko the Sad Circus Clown and the Trapeze Lady.â
Dick Feller is a Nashville songwriter whoâs written several great songs, and this one about Jocko is one of my all-time favorites. Thereâs nothing sadder nor more poignant than unrequited love. Just ask any lonesome guitar picker if you donât believe me.

âMan with the Big Hat.â
One night in 1968 Texas poet-songwriter Steven Fromholz visited Harold's Cave Creek Corral in Arizona in search of a real cowboy. As he was sitting there, one walked in and bellied up to the bar and began spinning yarns. Thus inspired, Fromholz sat down and wrote one of the best cowboy songs ever.

Legends in Levis.
I wrote this song in 1989. A few years earlier Iâd written a story with the same title for Arizona Highways Magazine and wanted to write a song that paid tribute to those hard-riding heroes that inspire in us a quest for freedom, adventure, and all those values that made this country great.

âGhost Riders in the Sky.â
This classic by Stan Jones is one of the best-known cowboy songs of them all. The violent thunderstorms that brewed over the Chiricahua Mountains in Southeast Arizona spawned dark, brooding clouds forming spectral figures that cowboys interpreted as a ghost herd being chased by phantom riders. Thus a cowboy legend was born about a devilâs herd and sinful cowboys condemned to pursue them across the endless skies. During the 1930s Stan was a youngster working on the D Hill ranch near Douglas, Arizona with an elderly cowboy-mentor named Cap Watts. One day as a huge thunderstorm approached, the old puncher warned, "We'd better get out of here before the ghost riders come for us.â Stan never forgot the story, and many years later, wrote the song. It became an instant hit and Stan went to Hollywood to write theme songs for many westerns, including the John Wayne classic, âThe Searchers.â



âWhen Payday Rolls Aroundâ and âHappy Rovinâ Cowboy.â
Bob Nolan was a prolific songwriter. He was born Clarence Robert Nobles, but wisely went by âBob.â He took the name Nolan when he came to Tucson as a youngster. He wrote the classic âCool Waterâ as a poem while still in high school. After graduation in 1929, he rode the rails to California where eventually teamed up with Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye) to form the legendary Sons of the Pioneers. This medley is a good composite of Nolanâs penchant for writing great cowboy songs.

âPatrick Murphy.â
Dolan Ellis, Arizona's Official Balladeer, wrote this song about an actual event that occurred at Naco, Arizona during the Mexican Revolution in 1929. The federales and Rebels were both hiring American barnstorming pilots to drop bombs from primitive airplanes. Murphy was working for the Rebels and was supposed to bomb Naco, Sonora but for reasons unknown to this day, he dropped his load on Naco, Arizona marking the first time the United States had been bombed from an airplane.

âWestern Plains.â
I first heard this 1934 Stuart Hamblin song back in the 1940s sung by a local singer named Patsy Prescott. Every evening she had a program on KOY featuring cowboy songs. My brothers and I would gather the milk cows and then flop on the floor and listen to Patsy sing and yodel, âWestern Plains.â Hamblin wrote it as âTexas Plains,â and others sang it as âMontana Plains.â I prefer âWestern Plainsâ and the song is still one of my all-time favorites.

âThe Rodeo Hand.â
I found this gripping recital by Peter La Farge back in the 1960s on a Folkways recording, memorized it, and have been performing it ever since at rodeo events and concerts.






âSweet Wyoming Home.â
I learned this wonderful Bill Staines song from a wrangler from Wickenburg named Dick Frederickson. I was working as a horseback historian on a trailride in Monument Valley and we were taking turns entertaining around the campfire. After the riders crawled into their bedrolls I prodded him to write down the words for me. I think itâs one of the greatest rodeo cowboy songs ever written.

âWreck of the Old 97.â
This song tells the true story of a train wreck on September 27, 1903 that killed eleven people. Engineer Joe âSteveâ Broadey was trying to make up time on a grade between Lynchburg and Danville. They were coming down the three-mile grade approaching a curved trestle and when he tried to slow down the brakes wouldnât hold and old 97 vaulted off the trestle. Vern Dalhartâs 1924 recording became Americaâs first million-selling record. There is some controversy over who actually authored the song. A telegraph operator named David George claimed it and so did Fred Jackson Lewey but it appears it was actually written by Charles Noell who was listed originally as Leweyâs co-author.

âRock Island Line.â
I first heard this song back in 1956 by Lonne Donegan and started performing it in college in the late 50s. My dad was an engineer for the Santa Fe Railroad and I always had an affinity for train songs, especially the ones I heard him sing. The song was written and originally performed by the great folksinger Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly. He did time behind bars several times and itâs believed he created the song while working on a chain gang. Huddie was âdiscoveredâ in 1933 by folk musicologists John and Alan Lomax.

âThe Crash at Crush.â
Years ago I saw a photo in one of my dadâs train books of two locomotives racing towards each other and never forgot the image. Recently I was listening to Texas songwriter Brian Burnsâ âThe Eagle and the Snake: Songs of the Texiansâ, heard a song he wrote called âCrash at Crush,â and it struck a note. Iâd heard the story years ago from my dad about a promoter named George Crush, who, along with the Katy Railroad in 1896 staged a train wreck near Waco, Texas before a crowd of 40,000 spectators. Theyâd bought tickets to witness the spectacle at a one-day tent city named Crush. Needless to say the results proved to be disastrous.

âRagtime Cowboy Joe.â
In 1912 Arizona became the 48th state, Ragtime music was the rage, as were cowboy movies. Three New York songwriters, Grant Clark, Lewis Muir and Maurice Abrahams, were trying to compose a song to combine Ragtime with cowboys and Arizona. About that time little Joe, a nephew to one of the music makers, loped through the room riding a stick horse and all decked out in a cowboy outfit. One casually observed, âThere goes olâ Ragtime Cowboy Joe,â and one of the most popular songs of the era was born.