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