Carl T. Sprague

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Carl T. Sprague ( born March 10, 1895 in Houston, † 19 February 1979 in Bryan, Texas) was an American cowboy and one of the first country musicians who were immortalized on record.

Life

His youth Sprague spent on a farm. Due to the First World War, he finished his education at Texas A & M University until 1922. Through Vernon Dalharts song The Prisoner 's Song inspired, he went in August 1925 to Camden, New Jersey and took today's Western classics When The Works All Done This Fall on. This song tells of a cowboy who has done so much when the hard work in the autumn is over. However, he experienced the fall no more, when he comes into a stampede killed.

The record sold over 800,000 copies. His total of more than 30 other songs were successful. During the Depression, his career came to a halt, but it occurred even into old age at folk festivals. He moved to Bryan, Texas where he died in 1979.

Title ( selection)

• When The Works All Done This Fall
• Bad Companions
• Following The Cowtrail
• If Your Saddle Is Good And Tight
• O Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie ( The Dying Cowboy )
• Last Great Round Up
• The Two Soldiers
• The Cowboy 's Meditation
• The Mormon Cowboy