Cisco Houston - The Cisco Houston Collection 1944-61 (CD)

Release Date: 01/20/23Cisco Houston was a folk singer and songwriter, brought up in California, who was a close associate of Woody GuthrieCisco Houston was a folk singer and songwriter, brought up in California, who was a close associate of Woody Guthrie, whom he met while working as an actor in Hollywood in the late '30s. They started travelling together, playing at migrant workers' camps and promoting unionism and workers' rights. After serving in the Merchant Marine in WWII, he was in the Almanac Singers in New York with Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and began recording with Guthrie and as a solo artist. Over subsequent years, he performed in clubs and worked on radio and was part of the folk scene that was at the heart of the burgeoning protest movement, writing, collecting and recording songs that carried messages that championed the cause of the downtrodden classes. This 132-track 5-CD set brings together a considerable proportion of his work, comprising selected titles from his early