Bound for the Rio Grande

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Bound For the Rio Grande
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Studio album by
Released1991
Genre Western
Label Independent
Sons of the San Joaquin chronology
Great American Cowboy
(1990)
Bound For the Rio Grande
(1991)
A Cowboy Has to Sing
(1992)

Bound For the Rio Grande is the second Sons of the San Joaquin album. It was independently produced and distributed and contains songs written by or notably recorded by the Sons of the Pioneers.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Bound For the Rio Grande" (Bob Nolan)1:51
2."The Boss is Haning Out a Rainbow" (Bob Nolan)2:27
3."Wind" (Bob Nolan)4:15
4."Red River Valley" (Traditional)2:48
5."Bunkhouse Bugle Boy" (Tim Spencer)1:41
6."Tumblin' Tumbleweeds" (Bob Nolan)2:16
7."Happy Cowboy" (Bob Nolan)2:06
8."So Long to the Red River Valley" (Glenn Spencer)2:28
9."Blue Prairie" (Bob Nolan)3:52
10."When Pay Day Rolls Around" (Bob Nolan)1:45
11."Empty Saddles" (B. Hill, J. Brennan)2:55
12."Way Out There" (Bob Nolan)2:25

Personnel

Sons of the San Joaquin

Additional personnel

Production

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