Songs About Dogs
[2011 list from Paul Rutter]
Praying for Dogs / Jakob's Hollow / The Legend of Bobby the Kid
Tom Russell: Old Blue (5:29) (trad/arr.T.Russell) "Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs" Hightone HCD 8165 (www.tomrussell.com)
Bill Justice: My Blue Tick Dog (2:43) "The Omni Center's Peace Songbook & CD" Omnicenter (www.omnicenter.org)
Keith Sykes: Gypsy (2:38) (trad/arr.Sykes) "Keith Sykes" / Vanguard VSD-6548 (www.keithsykes.com)
Ron Hynes: A Good Dog Is Lost (3:10) "Get Back Change" / Borealis BCD 152 (www.hynesite.org)
John Hasbrouck: I'll Be Gone (2:25) "Some These Days" / Ruthless Rabbit RRR1964
Joan Baez: Old Blue (2:32) "Joan Baez Vol. 2" Vanguard 79595
Trish Painter: Dog Memories (3:00) "Dog Tracks" self 00261 26337 (dogtracks.trish.painter@gmail.com)
Patti Casey / Old Man / Under Different Skies / self http://www.patticasey.com/recordings/
Johnatha Brooke / Dog Dreams / (Christine Lavin compilation)
Louisiana Rounders (mid-1930s): Ayou Ayou mon petit chien est alle? (Where oh where has my little dog gone?)
The Canote Brothers: I Wanna Be A Dog (my kids' favorite track and great for singalongs)
Pokey Lafarge & The South City Three: Old Black Dog
Patti Casey / A Dogs Complaint /
Ralph McTell / That Old Brown Dog
Furnace Mountain: Turbo Dog
Rayna Gellert: Old Yellow Dog come trottin through the Meetinghouse
Kevin Griffin (Irish banjo master): 48 Dogs in the MeatHouse
John Hiatt / My Dog and Me /
Bryan Bowers / Dog / By Heart
Marie Burns (of the Burns sisters) / Entire CD called Good Dog including "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window
Byrds / Bugler /
Jimmy Martin / Run Pete Run /
James Keelaghan / Sinatra and I /
Wanda Fischer / I Love That Dog / by composer Connie Kaldor on her Small Café CD
[older]
John Roberts & Tony Barrand\ Dog And Gun\ A Present From The Gentlemen\ Golden Hind
Audrey Auld\ He's A Good Dog\ Reckless Records Garage Sale 1997 - 2003 (VA)\ Reckless
Bill Staines\ Old Dogs\ Old Dogs\ Red House
Sandy Bradley w/the Canote Bros.\ I Wanna Be A Dog\ Happy Jive Live\ Sage Arts
Lou & Peter Berryman\ Does Your Dog Agonize?\ The Universe: 14 Examples\ Cornbelt
[from Emmett Boaz]
Sweet Brothers -- I Had a Bulldog
Troublesome Creek -- I Had a Bulldog/Self
Tom T Hall -- Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine
Jan Smith -- Dalmation/Tin Heart/Chestnut Music
Hank Williams -- Move It on Over
Ian and Sylvia -- Old Blue/self/Vanguard
Ian and Sylvia -- Got No More Home Than a Dog/self/Vanguard
Flatt and Scruggs -- Salty Dog Blues
Marcia Ball-- Play With My Poodle
Bradley Kincaid -- With Dog and Gun
Dave van Ronk -- I Buyed Me A Little Dog/Folksinger/Prestige
Johnny Cash -- Dirty Old Eggsucking Dog
Bill Monroe -- Dog House Blues
Doc Watson -- Hound Dog/ Docabilly/Sugar Hill
Henry Whitter -- Fox Chase
John Jackson -- Police Dog Blues
Var. Artists -- Compilation/Doggone Country/CMH
[also]
Bill Staines\ Little Brown Dog\ The Second Million Miles\ Red House
Pat Donohue\ Give a Dog a Bone\ Profile\ Bluesky
Shawn Camp\ Beagle Hound\ Fireball\ Skeeter Bit
The Smelter Rats\ Every Time I Go To Town\ Done Dead and Gone\ Self
Antsy McClain\ Sparky's Lament\ Time-Sweetened Lies\ DPR
Connide Kaldor\ I Love That Dog\ Small Cafe
John Knowles\ Chihuahua Waltz\ Sittin' Back Pickin'\ Self
Ghost of a Dog, Edie Brickell
Blind Blake / Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker / Police Dog Blues / Blues /
Wayne Hancock \ Walkin' the Dog \ Swing Time
Sandy Bradley / Happy Jive Live / I Wanna Be A Dog / Contemporary Folk
JOHN GORKA / Dogs & Thunder / Old Futures Gone / Red House
He's A Good Dog / FRED EAGLESMITH / Ralph's Last Show / Signature Sounds
Chicken Bones / WILLIAM MERWIN / Victory Music 20th Anniv. / Victory
Old King / NEIL YOUNG / Harvest Moon / Reprise
Children & Dogs / GRAHAM PARKER / Struck By Lightning / RCA
Dixie, the Tiny Dog / PETER HIMMELMAN / The Musings of Someone (promo) / Epic
(for an MP3 of "Dixie" see http://www.himmelfans.org/links.html)
Old Blue / BROOKS WILLIAMS / Back To Mercy / Green Linnet
Cephas and Wiggins: Police Dog Blues (Guitar Man)
Kathi McDonald / Hound Dog / Seattle Women Back Porch Gossip
Mike Dowling - Swamp Dog Blues - You Don't Have To Know the Words - Tabletop
Ray Wylie Hubbard / Black Dog
Roy Book Binder/ Black Dog Blues/ Don't Start Me Talkin/ Rounder
Terri Hendrix / Don't Pet The Dog / Live In San Marcos
Kinky Friedman / From One Good American to Another* / Old Shep /
Jamie Anderson / I Miss the Dog (More Than I Miss You) / Listen