We average about 110 days on the road and 175 shows each
year, playing county fairs and cowboy gatherings. Everywhere we
go, folks ask for certain songs, many of which are hard to find.
So here
are songs of the west that you've asked for again and again. There's a good
sprinkling of successful songwriters like Bob Nolan, Tim & Glenn Spencer, a
touch of Marty Robbins and Smiley Burnette, and others. Many cowboy
songs arose from stories told of western work and everyday life, later set
to music. We included some of these, the work of cowboy poets now long gone
(Gale Gardner, Jack Thorpe, Curly Fletcher). The fact is, whether it reaches
us in a purely traditional form, or via the interpretations of the silvery
screen, this music is one of the true folk forms of western North America.
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