
1993 Winner of the Western Heritage “Wrangler Award” for Outstanding Traditional Western Music and Composition from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.
Rare Collector’s Item – Original Album Release (New)
Limited availability
Tunes
Git Along Little Dogies
Brazos River Song
Railroad Corral
Trail to Mexico
Cowboy Soliloquy
Chopo
Roundup in the Spring
Powder River
Santa Fe Trail
Cowboy’s Letter from Home
Wild Rippling Waters
Doney Gal
Goodnight-Loving Trail
Grand Roundup
CREDITS
Buck Ramsey: Rolling Uphill from Texas
Produced by Lanny Fiel, Joe Stephenson, and Buck Ramsey
Engineering and mix by Lanny Fiel
Special thanks to Mark Murray Studio C and Jerry Tubb Terra Nova Digital Audio for technical assistance
Buck Ramsey: vocals, rhythm guitar
Joe Stephenson: fiddle, acoustic and gut-string guitar leads, and vocal harmony on Cowboy’s Letter from Home
Lanny Fiel: high rhythm, mandolin, harmonica, acoustic and gut-string guitar leads on Powder River and Brazos River Song
Joe Fristoe: bass
Bill Perkins: bass on Powder River
Ellen Watson: vocal harmony on Brazos River Song
Donna Stephenson: vocal harmony on Cowboy’s Letter from Home
Cover design: Beverly Cook Perry
Photography: Wyatt McSpadden
Recorded in Lubbock, Texas, and Aurora, Colorado
Fiel Publications Recording Series
FPRS 0002
© ℗ 1992 Fiel Publications, Inc.
All songs arranged by Buck Ramsey
© ℗ 1992 Elnora Music
Thanks to Kathy Borrego, Jack Douglas, Audrey Fiel, Bill Fitzgerald, Tom Hatch, Tom Hayden, Margaret Lamphere, Ed McCormick, Wayne Meissner, Amanda Ramsey, Bette Ramsey, Boze Thompson, and Andy Wilkinson.
To Fred Thompson and all who would be like him and in memory of Wayne Oakes.
Special thanks to Abner Burnett and Worpt Productions World Project.
LINER NOTES
“A former working cowboy from Amarillo, Texas, Buck is one of the most sought-after performers of cowboy poetry and music.” — “Spur” Newsletter of the Autry Museum of Western Heritage – April/June 1993
“Ramsey’s literary recreation and preservation of cowboy life is part of a larger patchwork of efforts of kindred souls nationwide. — Folk Masters from the Barns of Wolf Trap 1993
“Winner of the Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Traditional Western Music” — National Cowboy Hall of Fame 1993
Hailed as “Visionary” — The Washington Post – March 1993