Spindrift performs electro-acoustic shows with a more intimate, stripped down campfire atmosphere under the name of “Bluniform” and “Boy Scout Jamboree” and more recently “T!T H!TCH and the Sh!T Sh00ters!” Covers include tunes written by the likes of the “singing cowboys” such as Johnny Western, Johnny Bond, Tex Ritter, The Louvin Brothers, Frankie Laine, The Sons of the Pioneers, and Rex Allen. The band also performs Spindrift songs such as “When I Was Free,” “Ace Coltrane,” & “Girlz Booze Gunz” featuring alternate arrangements for the campfire setting.

“Carry Me Back To The Lone Prairie”
Written by Carson Robison

“This song was written because Carson disputed the old song ‘Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie.’ He could not conceive that a cowboy would not want to be buried anywhere but on the prairie. James Melton was directly responsible for starting it off to be a big number. He sang it literally hundreds of times in his programs and concert tours.” —Catherine A. (Mrs. Carson) Robison

“Shortnin’ Bread”

Shortnin’ Bread is often thought of as a traditional plantation song. However the first version was written by white poet James Whitcomb Riley in 1900. His song was named “A Short’nin’ Bread Song—Pieced Out”, the chorus of which is:
Fotch dat dough fum the kitchin-shed—
Rake de coals out hot an’ red—
Putt on de oven an’ putt on de led,—
Mammy’s gwineter cook som short’nin’ bread.
Titled “Shortened Bread”, E.C. Perrow published the first folk version of this song in 1915, which he collected from East Tennessee in 1912. The folk version of the song—as with Riley’s— does not have any distinct theme, but consists of various floating lyrics, some relating to shortnin’ bread, some not. The traditional chorus associated with the folk song goes:
Mammy’s little baby loves short’nin’, short’nin’,
Mammy’s little baby loves short’nin’ bread
Shortening bread is a fried batter bread, the ingredients of which include corn meal, flour, hot water, eggs, baking powder, milk and shortening. (Wikipedia)

“Buffalo Dream”
Written by Tex Ritter