Cisco Houston was an American folk singer and songwriter born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1918 who began his career as a seaman and itinerant performer in the 1930s and worked within the American folk and country traditions. His repertoire encompassed traditional ballads, labour songs and maritime tunes, and over his career he worked in radio and recorded extensively, contributing to the mid-20th-century folk revival and the documentation of working-class musical traditions.
