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Cisco Houston

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American musician (1918–1961)

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

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
39,861
Total plays
339,515

Tags

folkcountryAllpoliticalcowboy

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

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,790x

  2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    · 2016 · cited 11,704x

  3. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

    · 2017 · cited 8,261x

  4. The Genome Sequence of <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>

    · 2000 · cited 4,818x

  5. The Immune Landscape of Cancer

    · 2018 · cited 4,776x

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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
Sources (2)

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