There are two completely different tunes (that I know of) called Diamond Joe, which appear to be unrelated. The first one is a cowboy song. I first heard it from an Ian Tyson record back in the early 80s, but it’s a tune that has… Read More
I was thinking about the old cowboy song, Diamond Joe so I searched around YouTube and found this performance by Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, in which he talks about how he learned it from a cowboy at a rodeo in Brussels of all places. Jack struggles… Read More
There are two different tunes that I know called Diamond Joe. I first heard this one performed by Ian Tyson… Here’s another version, by Sam Bush.. This tune is apparently fairly young, written in the 1950s, possibly by Cisco Houston. Now much later I heard… Read More
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