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… http://youtu.be/FfQ7dVMnWA0 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… Read More
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