The Ballymena Cowboy Explained

The Ballymena Cowboy
Type:	Studio
Artist:	James Young
Cover:	The_Ballymena_Cowboy.jpg
Released:	1970
Recorded:	1970
Genre:	Comedy
Length:	33:28
Label:	Emerald Music
Producer:	Peter Lloyd
Prev Title:	Behind the Barricades
Prev Year:	1970
Next Title:	Very Much Live In Canada
Next Year:	1971

The Ballymena Cowboy is the seventh comedy album released by the Northern Irish comedian and actor James Young.

The album cover has a picture taken by Stanley Matchett Young holding a lasso and dressed as a cowboy. Beside him, a woman is dressed as an Indian and holds a tomahawk. The back cover has a picture of Young taken in 1969 on a visit to Canada along with a silhouette of a scene from the Old West. In the picture, Young is seen sitting on a wagon with Sam, The Record Man.

Track listing

Side 1

1. The Ballymena Cowboy – 3:52
2. A Hairy Tale: 2:42
3. There's a Lounge Bar in The Town – 2:26
4. On Derry's Walls – 3:08
5. Stormont Pudding – 2:09
6. Bingo Crazy – 3:01

Side 2

1. Boom – 1:49
2. I'm A Private Detective – 1:46
3. The Cherryvalley Debutramp – 2:50
4. U.L.S.T.E.R. – 2:09
5. Sixty Years From Now – 2:14
6. A Party Political Broadcast – 4:52

Re-release

Emerald Music re-released the album in 2001. It was made available separately or in a boxset with The Very Best of James Young.^[1]

Re-release order

The re-release has the same tracks as the original but in a different order::

1. The Ballymena Cowboy
2. Boom
3. There's a Lounge Bar in the Town
4. On Derry's Walls
5. Stormont Pudding
6. Bingo Crazy
7. A Hairy Tale
8. I'm A Private Detective
9. The Cherryvalley Debutramp
10. U.L.S.T.E.R.
11. Sixty Years From Now
12. Party Political Broadcast

Notes and References

1. Web site: Emerald Music James Young Page. Emerald Music. 15 December 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120405193034/http://www.emeraldmusiconline.com/search/?search=james%2Byoung&x=0&y=0. 5 April 2012.