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Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys is a 1973 album by American
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The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 singer Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Davy Guthrie is an American folk singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice...

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Track listing

All tracks composed by Arlo Guthrie; except where indicated
  1. "Farrell O'Gara" (Traditional) - 2:49
  2. "Gypsy Davy
    The Gypsy Laddie
    "The Gypsy Laddie" , also known as "Black Jack Davy" and "The Raggle Taggle Gypsies" among many other titles, is a Border ballad , possibly written about 1720 on the Scottish side of the border...

    " (Traditional, Woody Guthrie
    Woody Guthrie
    Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...

    ) - 3:44
  3. "This Troubled Mind of Mine" (Ernest Tubb
    Ernest Tubb
    Ernest Dale Tubb , nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" , marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music...

    , Johnny Tyler) - 2:27
  4. "Week on the Rag" - 2:23
  5. "Miss the Mississippi and You" (Bill Halley) - 2:55
  6. "Lovesick Blues
    Lovesick Blues
    "Lovesick Blues" is a show tune written by composer Cliff Friend and co-lyricist & producer Irving Mills. It has become a pop standard and an even more popular country song since it helped make Hank Williams famous in the 1940s. Published through Tin Pan Alley in 1922, the song was first recorded...

    " (Irving Mills
    Irving Mills
    Irving Mills was a jazz music publisher, also known by the name of "Joe Primrose."Mills was born to Jewish parents in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919...

    , Cliff Friend
    Cliff Friend
    Cliff Friend was an accomplished songwriter and pianist. A member of Tin Pan Alley, Friend co-wrote several hits including "Lovesick Blues," "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down," also known as the theme song to the Looney Tunes cartoon series.-Early life:Friend was...

    ) - 2:35
  7. "Uncle Jeff" - 0:56
  8. "Gates of Eden
    Gates Of Eden (song)
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    " (Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
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    ) - 5:16
  9. "Last Train" - 3:06
  10. "Cowboy Song" - 3:42
  11. "Sailor's Bonnett" (Traditional) - 1:23
  12. "Cooper's Lament" - 2:47
  13. "Ramblin' 'Round" (Woody Guthrie) - 3:14

Personnel

  • Arlo Guthrie - vocals, guitar, banjo, piano, harmonica
  • Doug Dillard
    The Dillards
    The Dillards are an American bluegrass band from Salem, Missouri, consisting of Douglas Flint "Doug" Dillard The Dillards are an American bluegrass band from Salem, Missouri, consisting of Douglas Flint "Doug" Dillard The Dillards are an American bluegrass band from Salem, Missouri, consisting of...

     - banjo
  • Clarence White
    Clarence White
    Clarence White was a guitar player for Nashville West, The Byrds, Muleskinner, and the Kentucky Colonels. His parents were Acadians from New Brunswick, Canada...

     - guitar
  • Kevin Burke - fiddle
  • Ry Cooder
    Ry Cooder
    Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder is an American guitarist, singer and composer. He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in roots music from the United States, and, more recently, his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.His solo work has been eclectic, encompassing...

     - guitar
  • Buddy Collette
    Buddy Collette
    William Marcel "Buddy" Collette was an American tenor saxophonist, flautist, and clarinetist. He was highly influential in the West coast jazz and West Coast blues mediums, also collaborating with saxophonist Dexter Gordon, drummer Chico Hamilton, and his lifelong friend, bassist Charles...

     - clarinet
  • Ed Shaughnessy - drums, tabla
  • Chuck Rainey
    Chuck Rainey
    Chuck Rainey, is an American bass guitar session musician, known for playing with many well-known American musicians and acts, including Donald Byrd, Steely Dan, Quincy Jones, and Aretha Franklin.-Biography:Rainey's youthful pursuits included violin, piano and trumpet...

     - bass
  • Stan Free
    Stan Free
    Stanley Free was a New York City-based jazz musician, composer, conductor and arranger.Free was born in Brooklyn in 1922, and received a classical musical education, studying with Alexander Siloti and also at the Juilliard School. While still in his teens, he organized a combo that played the...

     - piano, harpsichord
  • Jesse Ed Davis
    Jesse Ed Davis
    Jesse Edwin Davis was an American guitarist. He was well regarded as a session artist. His death in 1988 is attributed to a drug overdose.-Biography:...

     - guitar
  • Gene Parsons
    Gene Parsons
    Gene Victor Parsons is an American drummer, banjo player, guitarist, singer-songwriter, and innovative engineer, best known for his work with The Byrds from 1968 to 1972. Parsons has also released solo albums and played in bands including Nashville West, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Parsons Green...

     - drums
  • Clydie King
    Clydie King
    Clydie Crittendon is an American singer, best known for her session work as a backing vocalist....

     - background vocals
  • Jim Keltner
    Jim Keltner
    James Lee "Jim" Keltner is an American drummer known primarily for his session work. He has contributed to the work of many well-known artists...

     - drums
  • Grady Martin
    Grady Martin
    Thomas Grady Martin was one of the most renowned, inventive and historically significant American session musicians in country music and rockabilly....

     - guitar
  • Buddy Alan - guitar
  • Bob Arkin - bass
  • George Bohannon - horn
  • Jerry Brightman
    Jerry Brightman
    Jerry Brightman is a pedal steel guitarist who played for Buck Owens and the The Buckaroos and featured on television's Hee Haw along with performing on many top 10 records with Buck, Susan Raye, Tony Booth, and others. Impressing audiences at an early age, he began playing professionally in 1966...

     - steel guitar
  • Donald Christlieb - woodwind
  • Gene Coe - horn
  • Nick DeCaro - accordion
  • Barry Feldman - Executive Producer
  • Venetta Fields
    Venetta Fields
    Venetta Fields is an American singer best known as session musician for leading rock and pop acts of the 1970s including Pink Floyd, Barbra Streisand, Steely Dan and the Rolling Stones...

     - background vocals
  • Gib Guilbeau - fiddle
  • Bob Glaub
    Bob Glaub
    Bob Glaub is an American bass player and session musician. He's played with such artists and bands as Journey, Jackson Browne, Bee Gees, Eric Carmen, Linda Ronstadt, Leo Sayer, Warren Zevon, Rod Stewart, Donna Summer, Bonnie Raitt and many others....

     - bass
  • William Green - oboe
  • Richard Hayward
    Richard Hayward
    Richard Hayward was an Irish film actor, writer and musician. Born in Larne, he was an enthusiast for all Ulster regional popular culture. After a period working at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin he helped form the Belfast Repertory Theatre Company. He was a popular singer in the forties and fifties...

     - drums
  • Richard Hyde - trombone
  • Thad Maxwell - bass
  • Gene Merlino - background vocals
  • Bob Morris - guitar
  • John Pilla
    John Pilla
    John Pilla was a musician and music producer associated with Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger in Precious Friend.-References:*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuZmd565vRo*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTBos9QbUl4*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuVM9dCx3jY...

     - guitar
  • Thurl Ravenscroft
    Thurl Ravenscroft
    Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft was an American voice actor and singer best known as the deep voice behind Tony the Tiger's "They're grrreat!" in Frosted Flakes television commercials for more than five decades. Ravenscroft was also known, however uncredited, as the vocalist for the song "You're a Mean...

     - background vocals
  • Don Rich - fiddle, guitar
  • Jim Shaw - organ, piano
  • Doyle Curtsinger - bass, mandolin
  • Jessica Smith- vocals
  • Robert Tebow - background vocals
  • Mike Utley
    Mike Utley
    Michael Utley is a former American football player. He is known for being paralyzed during an NFL game.-NFL career:...

     - organ
  • Ernie Watts
    Ernie Watts
    Ernest James "Ernie" Watts is an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician. He plays saxophone and flute. He might be best known for his work with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and his Grammy Awards as an instrumentalist...

     - flute
  • Jerry Wiggins - drums
  • Dick Hyde - horn
  • Jesse Smith - background vocals
  • Jim Gordon
    Jim Gordon (musician)
    James Beck "Jim" Gordon is an American recording artist, musician and songwriter. The Grammy Award winner was one of the most requested session drummers in the late 1960s and 1970s, recording albums with many well-known musicians of the time, and was the drummer in the blues-rock supergroup Derek...

     - piano
  • Leland Sklar
    Leland Sklar
    Leland "Lee" Bruce Sklar is an American musician, singer-songwriter and film score composer. A prominent bass guitarist, Sklar has contributed to thousands of albums as a session musician...

    - bass
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