Cisco Houston
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Hard traveling
- 900 miles and other R. R. songs
- Cowboy ballads
- American folk songs
- Cisco Houston sings songs of the open road
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1918-08-18
- Active to
- 1961-04-29
folk
Discography
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- Listeners
- 39,861
- Total plays
- 339,515
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Gilbert Vandine 'Cisco' Houston (August 18, 1918 – April 29, 1961) was an American folk singer and songwriter who is closely associated with Woody Guthrie due to their extensive history of recording together. Houston was a regular recording artist for Moses Asch's Folkways recording studio. He also performed with such folk/blues musicians as Lead Belly, Sonny Terry, and the Almanac Singers. Gilbert Vandine Houston was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on August 18, 1918, the second of four childre
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Houston
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Wilmington
- Place of death
- San Bernardino
- Occupation
- singer
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Vanguard Records
- Image
- Cisco Houston.png
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1918-08-18
- date of death
- 1961-04-29
- cause of death
- stomach cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
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