Not sure where to post this, but I figured someone on this website might be interested in my find. I hope there are some Cowboy Mouth fans on this site.... I'm referring to the original Cowboy Mouth that released Cowboys and Indians in 1986 and had song on college radio called "Hurricane", not the later band from New Orleans.
I lucked out and found a demo/promo tape from them and transferred it to digital. Here's a link to a discogs listing of the actual tape I found.
https://www.discogs.com/release/8650916-Cowboy-Mouth-Cowboy-Mouth
What's interesting is that the tracks on my tape don't match the tracks listed on the cover. After careful listening to the tape, here's the track listing I've come up with.
A1 Sands of Iwo Jima 3:14
A2 ???Service Man??? 3:50
A3 Free Country 3:33
A4 State Police 3:00
A5 ??? 5:12
A6 ??? 5:05
As far as the songs go, this is what I know for sure
A1 sounds identical to the CD bonus track version
A2 is unknown - has the chorus "Cause he's a service man, he's serving his country land"
A3 appears identical to the album version
A4 appears to be an early fade out of the CD bonus track version
A5 is unknown - repeats the line "The soldiers are coming":
A6 is unknown - repeats the line "Leave this countryside alone"
So there are three new songs I can't find any record of anywhere. They sound quite good, do not sound like demo versions of songs. The 3 known songs sound exactly like the 1986 album version. The 3 new songs have sound and production quality that closely matches the album, so my guess is that these were also recorded during those sessions but didn't make it onto the album. That would make this some sort of promo tape rather than a demo tape.
I tried reaching out to Dave Laredo directly at https://electricseaturtle.com/cbm.htm with questions about these new tracks, but he never replied to me. That might be a dead site.
As I said the cover doesn't match the tracks on the tape... This implies that there is another tape out there that matches the cover listing? It also lists 2 other unknown songs
- A Holiday
- In This Town
Which I'd guess are also the same quality as these tracks and likely additional session outtakes.
Anyhow I'm wondering if anyone here has info on these lost tracks. Or can point me in any direction to dig further. Or any interest in Cowboy Mouth in general. This is a huge find for fans of Cowboy Mouth. There's not much out there from them besides the 1986 album and the two b-sides that surfaced. So any lost tracks are a significant addition to their incredibly small (known) catalog.
