Steve Cormier is fond of saying he doesn’t write “ride into the sunset songs.” What Cormier, a veteran Western musician, means is that the cowboy songs he pens are rooted in the life of actual, ...

In country songs, there's nothing quite like a good cowboy anthem. The boots, the dust, the wide open skies—it's all wrapped up in a sound that feels rugged and timeless. At Drummond Ranch, cowboy ...

Feidler, a South Dakota songwriter, is succeeding in making the move from chutes to stages, just like the legendary late ...

Riders in the Sky have played over 6,700 concerts in 36 years Riders in the Sky, a four-piece cowboy-music institution that has been keeping traditional Western music alive in America for 36 years, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico chapter of the International Western Music Association is inviting the community to join them for a day of western music and cowboy poetry. The National Day ...

WHEN in 1908 a check for $500 came from Harvard University for my first year as a Sheldon Fellow, I was the happiest person in the world. Never before at one time had I owned so much money, money that ...

For decades, cowboy songs were a formidable segment of pop music, from the days when Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Bob Wills rode high, the Sons of the Pioneers harmonized about tumbleweeds, and the ...

If you see a lot of cowboy hats and horses roaming the streets of Durango next weekend, it’s because the annual Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering will be back in full swing. Starting Thursday, the ...

Lonesomely loping like a cowboy across the plains, the country-western ballad carries on its stark melody and bare words of history, tradition, and above all a flair that sets it apart from the ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest, Charley Crockett, is a songwriter, singer and guitarist whose music ranges from country to rhythm and blues, cowboy songs, outlaw ballads and the song ...