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Western music (North America)

December 07, 2023

Western music is a form of country music composed by and about the people who settled and worked throughout the Western United States and Western Canada. Western music celebrates the lifestyle of the cowboy on the open ranges, Rocky Mountains, and prairies of Western North America. Directly related musically to old English, Irish, Scottish, and folk ballads, also the Mexican folk music of Northern Mexico and Southwestern United States influenced the development of this genre, particularly corrido, ranchera, New Mexico and Tejano. Western music shares similar roots with Appalachian music (also called country or hillbilly music), which developed around the same time throughout Appalachia and the Appalachian Mountains. The music industry of the mid-20th century grouped the two genres together under the banner of country and western music, later amalgamated into the modern name, country music.

The term Western music with capitalized Western typically refers to musical traditions developed in Europe, as opposed to Eastern music developed in Asia, whereas western music with lowercase western typically refers to the music of the North American West.

Origins edit

Western music was directly influenced by the folk music traditions of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and many cowboy songs, sung around campfires in the 19th century, such as "Streets of Laredo", can be traced back to European folk songs.[1]

Reflecting the realities of the open range and ranch houses where the music originated, the early cowboy bands were string bands supplemented occasionally with the harmonica. The harmonica, invented in the early 19th century in central Europe, arrived in North America shortly before the American Civil War; its small size and portability made it a favorite among the American public and the flood of pioneers heading westward.

Otto Gray, an early cowboy band leader, stated authentic western music had only three rhythms, all coming from the gaits of the cow pony: walk, trot, and lope. Gray also noted the uniqueness of this spontaneous American song product, and the freedom of expression of the singers.[2]

It is a common impression that western music began with the cowboy, but this is not the case. The first "western" song was published in 1844. Titled "Blue Juniata", the song is about a young Indian maid waiting for her brave along the banks of the Juniata River in Pennsylvania (at that time, anything west of the Appalachian Mountains was considered "out West"). The song was recorded and sung by the Sons of the Pioneers over a hundred years later and is still being sung today. Subsequent "western" songs down through the years have dealt with many aspects of the West, such as the mountain men, the '49ers, the immigrants, the outlaws, the lawmen, the cowboy, and, of course, the beauty and grandeur of the West. Western music is not limited to the American cowboy.[3]

In 1908, N. Howard "Jack" Thorp published the first book of western music, titled Songs of the Cowboys. Containing only lyrics and no musical notation, the book was very popular west of the Mississippi River. Most of these cowboy songs are of unknown authorship, but among the best known is "Little Joe the Wrangler" written by Thorp himself.[4][5]

In 1910, John Lomax, in his book Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads,[6] first gained national attention for western music. His book contained some of the same songs as Thorp's book, although in variant versions (most had been collected before Thorp's book was published). Lomax's compilation included many musical scores. Lomax published a second collection in 1919 titled Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp.[7]

With the advent of radio and recording devices, the music found an audience previously ignored by music schools and Tin Pan Alley.[8] Many westerners preferred familiar music about themselves and their environment.

The first successful cowboy band to tour the East was Otto Gray's Oklahoma Cowboys, put together by William McGinty, an Oklahoma pioneer and former Rough Rider. The band appeared on radio and toured the vaudeville circuit from 1924 through 1936. They recorded few songs, however, so are overlooked by many scholars of western music.[9]

Various musicians recorded western songs in the 1920s and early 1930s, before the popularization of commercial singing cowboys, including Carl T. Sprague, John I. White, Jules Verne Allen, Harry McClintock, Tex Owens, and Wilf Carter alias Montana Slim. Many of these early western singers had grown up on ranches and farms or had experience working as cowboys. They typically performed simple arrangements with rustic vocal performances and a simple guitar or fiddle accompaniment.

Mainstream popularity edit

Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, western music became widely popular through the romanticization of the cowboy and idealized depictions of the west in Hollywood films. Singing cowboys, such as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, sang cowboy songs in their films and became popular throughout the United States. Film producers began incorporating fully orchestrated four-part harmonies and sophisticated musical arrangements into their motion pictures. Bing Crosby, the most popular singer of that time, recorded numerous cowboy and western songs and starred in the western musical film Rhythm on the Range (1936). During this era, the most popular recordings and musical radio shows included western music. Western swing also developed during this time.

Decline in popularity/1950s-70s edit

The Western Writers of America was formed in 1953 to promote excellence in western-style writing, including songwriting. Late 1950s, Frankie Laine recorded TV drama Theme "Rawhide".[10]

In 1964, the Country & Western Music Academy was formed in an effort to promote western music, primarily in the Western United States. The Academy was formed in response to the Nashville-oriented Country Music Association that had formed in 1958. The Academy's first awards were largely dominated by Bakersfield-based artists such as Buck Owens.[11] Over time, the Academy evolved into the Academy of Country Music and its mission is no longer distinguished from other country music organizations.

By the 1960s, the popularity of western music was in decline. Relegated to the country and western genre by marketing agencies, popular western recording artists sold fewer albums and attracted smaller audiences. Rock and roll dominated music sales and Hollywood recording studios dropped most of their Western artists (a few artists did successfully cross between the two, most prominently Johnny Cash, whose breakthrough hit "Folsom Prison Blues" (1955, live in 1968) combined a western theme with a rock-and-roll arrangement).[12] In addition, the Nashville sound, based more on pop ballads than on folk music, came to dominate the country and western commercial sales; except for the label, much of the music was indistinguishable from rock and roll or popular classes of music. The resulting backlash from western music purists led to the development of country music styles much more influenced by western music, including the Bakersfield sound and outlaw country. Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson were singers in outlaw country genre. In 1979 Johnny Cash recorded "Ghost Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)".

Cowboy pop edit

Main article: Cowboy pop

Authors such as Barry Mazor, Richard Carlin and John T. Davis have used the term cowboy pop to describe the music of cowboy singers in western films.[13][14] Jimmy Wakely, for example, was described by Mazor as a cowboy pop singer, and he has written that "when singing cowboy movies ruled, Hollywood hardly made a distinction between the sounds of cowboy pop balladeers and another sound entirely, born in Texas, in which Jimmie Rodgers had a formative role."[15][16] Several writers have emphasized that historically country music and cowboy music were not considered the same genre; for example, in her essay "Cowboy Songs", Anne Dingus wrote that "cowboy music is not country music, though the two are often lumped together as 'country and western'."[17] In 1910, John Avery Lomax anthologized over a hundred cowboy songs in his collection Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads.[18]

Rediscovery edit

Older western music is widely streamed on major platforms, with music by Marty Robbins and Al Hurricane being more easily accessible. Newer takes on western music are constantly written and recorded and performed all across the American West and Western Canada, thanks to the popularity of New Mexico music within New Mexico and the success of Michael Martin Murphey throughout the Western scene, they have resurrected the cowboy song genre, promoting western singers, Route 66 rockabilly, and cowboy poets. The style has even seen a popularity resurgence globally, thanks to the western genre's newfound popularity on streaming services and video games.[citation needed]

The Western Music Association was established in 1989 to preserve and promote western music. Western music in video games can be traced back to The Oregon Trail series, early Nintendo title Sheriff/Bandido, and arcade games like Sunset Riders. Fallout: New Vegas relies on a atmospheric western music style, but it also features old mid-20th century popular western musicians such as Marty Robbins along with pop music of the day. Furthermore, the Red Dead series of games heavily features western music, since it takes place in an Old West setting. Bill Elm and Woody Jackson's modern spin on an Old Western game would not be complete without their carefully assembled score; what they call their best project to date[19] Independent video games SteamWorld and Gunman Clive also make use of western music, as do other larger productions such as Dillon's Rolling Western.

The music of Colter Wall is a part of this revival.[20]

List of western music songs edit

References edit

  1. ^ Spell, L. M. (1936). Music in Texas: A survey of one aspect of cultural progress. Austin, Texas, p. 131.
  2. ^ Shirley, Glenn. "Daddy of the Cowboy Bands", in Oklahoma Today, Fall 1959, Vol. 9, No. 4, p. 29.
  3. ^ Green, Doug. Singing in the Saddle, pp. 1–2.
  4. ^ Thorp, N. (1921) Songs of the Cowboys, p. 96.
  5. ^ Thorpe, N. Howard "Jack" (1921). Songs of the Cowboys. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Retrieved May 20, 2009.
  6. ^ Online edition
  7. ^ Online edition
  8. ^ Quay, Westward Expansion, p. 179.
  9. ^ Early Cowboy Band
  10. ^ Interviewed in "Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer", video documentary, 2003.
  11. ^ Leeds, Jeff (March 25, 2006). "Buck Owens, Country Singer, Dies at 76". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  12. ^ "The Real Story Behind Johnny Cash & Folsom Prison Blues". folsomcasharttrail.com. Retrieved 2017-06-15.
  13. ^ Carlin, Richard (November 2002). "Carter, Wilf". Country Music: A Biographical Dictionary: 60.
  14. ^ Davis, John T. (2000). Austin City Limits: 25 Years of American Music. Billboard Books. pp. 55. ISBN 9780823083039.
  15. ^ Mazor, Barry (2014). Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music. Chicago Review Press. p. 228.
  16. ^ Mazor, Barry (2012). Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century. Oxford University Press. pp. 143–144. ISBN 978-0199891863.
  17. ^ Dingus, Anne (November 1989). "Cowboy Songs". Texas Monthly. 17 (11): 120.
  18. ^ "Who Were The Cowboys Behind 'Cowboy Songs'?". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
  19. ^ "Rockstar Games Presents: Red Dead Redemption". www.rockstargames.com. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
  20. ^ Wicks, Amanda (September 10, 2020). "Colter Wall: Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
  21. ^ "Ghost Riders In the Sky: The Wild Hunt and the Eternal Stampede", Esoterx.com, December 9, 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2021
  22. ^ a b Greg Ryder, "Blue Shadows", Frontier Records of Durango, Colorado, 1994

Bibliography edit

  • Cannon, Hal. Old Time Cowboy Songs. Gibbs Smith. ISBN 0-87905-308-9
  • Green, Douglas B. Singing in the Saddle: The History of the Singing Cowboy. Vanderbilt University Press, August 2002. ISBN 0-8265-1412-X
  • Hull, Myra. "Cowboy Ballads".
  • Johnson, Thomas S. "That Ain't Country: The Distinctiveness of Commercial Western Music". JEMF Quarterly. Vol 17, No. 62, Summer, 1981. pp 75–84.
  • Lomax, John A., M.A. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads. The MacMillan Company, 1918. Online edition (pdf)
  • O'Neal, Bill; Goodwin, Fred. The Sons of the Pioneers. Eakin Press, 2001. ISBN 1-57168-644-4
  • Otto Gray and his Oklahoma Cowboys. Early Cowboy Band. British Archive of Country Music, 2006. CD D 139
  • Quay, Sara E. Westward Expansion. Greenwood Press, 2000. ISBN 0-313-31235-4
  • Shirley, Glenn "Daddy of the Cowboy Bands. Oklahoma Today (Fall 1959), 9:4 6-7, 29.
  • Thorp, N. Howard "Jack". Songs of the Cowboys. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908, 1921.
  • White, John I. Git Along Little Dogies: Songs and Songmakers of the American West. (Music in American Life) series, University of Illinois Press, 1989 reprint. ISBN 0-252-06070-9

External links edit

  • The Academy of Western Artists
  • The Western Music Association
  • Rex Allen 'Arizona Cowboy' Museum & Willcox Cowboy Hall of Fame – Willcox, Arizona
  • Nudie's Rodeo Tailors for country & western artists
  • Country & Western Music Directory
  • KPOV-FM, Bend, Oregon—Calling All Cowboys, a weekly music program online featuring western music
  • Voices of Oklahoma interview with Guy Logsdon. First person interview conducted on February 16, 2010, with Guy Logsdon, western music historian

December 07, 2023
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Western music is a form of country music composed by and about the people who settled and worked throughout the Western United States and Western Canada Western music celebrates the lifestyle of the cowboy on the open ranges Rocky Mountains and prairies of Western North America Directly related musically to old English Irish Scottish and folk ballads also the Mexican folk music of Northern Mexico and Southwestern United States influenced the development of this genre particularly corrido ranchera New Mexico and Tejano Western music shares similar roots with Appalachian music also called country or hillbilly music which developed around the same time throughout Appalachia and the Appalachian Mountains The music industry of the mid 20th century grouped the two genres together under the banner of country and western music later amalgamated into the modern name country music Western musicStylistic originsAmerican folk corrido country New Mexico norteno ranchera singing cowboys TejanoCultural originsWestern United StatesDerivative formsRed DirtNew MexicoTexas countryTejanoSubgenresGulf and Westernprogressive countryWestern swingRegional scenesWestern United StatesWest South Central statesSouthwestern United StatesThe term Western music with capitalized Western typically refers to musical traditions developed in Europe as opposed to Eastern music developed in Asia whereas western music with lowercase western typically refers to the music of the North American West Contents 1 Origins 2 Mainstream popularity 3 Decline in popularity 1950s 70s 4 Cowboy pop 5 Rediscovery 6 List of western music songs 7 References 8 Bibliography 9 External linksOrigins editWestern music was directly influenced by the folk music traditions of England Wales Scotland and Ireland and many cowboy songs sung around campfires in the 19th century such as Streets of Laredo can be traced back to European folk songs 1 Reflecting the realities of the open range and ranch houses where the music originated the early cowboy bands were string bands supplemented occasionally with the harmonica The harmonica invented in the early 19th century in central Europe arrived in North America shortly before the American Civil War its small size and portability made it a favorite among the American public and the flood of pioneers heading westward Otto Gray an early cowboy band leader stated authentic western music had only three rhythms all coming from the gaits of the cow pony walk trot and lope Gray also noted the uniqueness of this spontaneous American song product and the freedom of expression of the singers 2 It is a common impression that western music began with the cowboy but this is not the case The first western song was published in 1844 Titled Blue Juniata the song is about a young Indian maid waiting for her brave along the banks of the Juniata River in Pennsylvania at that time anything west of the Appalachian Mountains was considered out West The song was recorded and sung by the Sons of the Pioneers over a hundred years later and is still being sung today Subsequent western songs down through the years have dealt with many aspects of the West such as the mountain men the 49ers the immigrants the outlaws the lawmen the cowboy and of course the beauty and grandeur of the West Western music is not limited to the American cowboy 3 In 1908 N Howard Jack Thorp published the first book of western music titled Songs of the Cowboys Containing only lyrics and no musical notation the book was very popular west of the Mississippi River Most of these cowboy songs are of unknown authorship but among the best known is Little Joe the Wrangler written by Thorp himself 4 5 In 1910 John Lomax in his book Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads 6 first gained national attention for western music His book contained some of the same songs as Thorp s book although in variant versions most had been collected before Thorp s book was published Lomax s compilation included many musical scores Lomax published a second collection in 1919 titled Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp 7 With the advent of radio and recording devices the music found an audience previously ignored by music schools and Tin Pan Alley 8 Many westerners preferred familiar music about themselves and their environment The first successful cowboy band to tour the East was Otto Gray s Oklahoma Cowboys put together by William McGinty an Oklahoma pioneer and former Rough Rider The band appeared on radio and toured the vaudeville circuit from 1924 through 1936 They recorded few songs however so are overlooked by many scholars of western music 9 Various musicians recorded western songs in the 1920s and early 1930s before the popularization of commercial singing cowboys including Carl T Sprague John I White Jules Verne Allen Harry McClintock Tex Owens and Wilf Carter alias Montana Slim Many of these early western singers had grown up on ranches and farms or had experience working as cowboys They typically performed simple arrangements with rustic vocal performances and a simple guitar or fiddle accompaniment Mainstream popularity editThroughout the 1930s and 1940s western music became widely popular through the romanticization of the cowboy and idealized depictions of the west in Hollywood films Singing cowboys such as Gene Autry and Roy Rogers sang cowboy songs in their films and became popular throughout the United States Film producers began incorporating fully orchestrated four part harmonies and sophisticated musical arrangements into their motion pictures Bing Crosby the most popular singer of that time recorded numerous cowboy and western songs and starred in the western musical film Rhythm on the Range 1936 During this era the most popular recordings and musical radio shows included western music Western swing also developed during this time Decline in popularity 1950s 70s editThe Western Writers of America was formed in 1953 to promote excellence in western style writing including songwriting Late 1950s Frankie Laine recorded TV drama Theme Rawhide 10 In 1964 the Country amp Western Music Academy was formed in an effort to promote western music primarily in the Western United States The Academy was formed in response to the Nashville oriented Country Music Association that had formed in 1958 The Academy s first awards were largely dominated by Bakersfield based artists such as Buck Owens 11 Over time the Academy evolved into the Academy of Country Music and its mission is no longer distinguished from other country music organizations By the 1960s the popularity of western music was in decline Relegated to the country and western genre by marketing agencies popular western recording artists sold fewer albums and attracted smaller audiences Rock and roll dominated music sales and Hollywood recording studios dropped most of their Western artists a few artists did successfully cross between the two most prominently Johnny Cash whose breakthrough hit Folsom Prison Blues 1955 live in 1968 combined a western theme with a rock and roll arrangement 12 In addition the Nashville sound based more on pop ballads than on folk music came to dominate the country and western commercial sales except for the label much of the music was indistinguishable from rock and roll or popular classes of music The resulting backlash from western music purists led to the development of country music styles much more influenced by western music including the Bakersfield sound and outlaw country Willie Nelson Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson were singers in outlaw country genre In 1979 Johnny Cash recorded Ghost Riders in the Sky A Cowboy Legend Cowboy pop editMain article Cowboy pop Authors such as Barry Mazor Richard Carlin and John T Davis have used the term cowboy pop to describe the music of cowboy singers in western films 13 14 Jimmy Wakely for example was described by Mazor as a cowboy pop singer and he has written that when singing cowboy movies ruled Hollywood hardly made a distinction between the sounds of cowboy pop balladeers and another sound entirely born in Texas in which Jimmie Rodgers had a formative role 15 16 Several writers have emphasized that historically country music and cowboy music were not considered the same genre for example in her essay Cowboy Songs Anne Dingus wrote that cowboy music is not country music though the two are often lumped together as country and western 17 In 1910 John Avery Lomax anthologized over a hundred cowboy songs in his collection Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads 18 Rediscovery editOlder western music is widely streamed on major platforms with music by Marty Robbins and Al Hurricane being more easily accessible Newer takes on western music are constantly written and recorded and performed all across the American West and Western Canada thanks to the popularity of New Mexico music within New Mexico and the success of Michael Martin Murphey throughout the Western scene they have resurrected the cowboy song genre promoting western singers Route 66 rockabilly and cowboy poets The style has even seen a popularity resurgence globally thanks to the western genre s newfound popularity on streaming services and video games citation needed The Western Music Association was established in 1989 to preserve and promote western music Western music in video games can be traced back to The Oregon Trail series early Nintendo title Sheriff Bandido and arcade games like Sunset Riders Fallout New Vegas relies on a atmospheric western music style but it also features old mid 20th century popular western musicians such as Marty Robbins along with pop music of the day Furthermore the Red Dead series of games heavily features western music since it takes place in an Old West setting Bill Elm and Woody Jackson s modern spin on an Old Western game would not be complete without their carefully assembled score what they call their best project to date 19 Independent video games SteamWorld and Gunman Clive also make use of western music as do other larger productions such as Dillon s Rolling Western The music of Colter Wall is a part of this revival 20 List of western music songs edit Abilene Along the Navaho Trail Along the Santa Fe Trail Back in the Saddle Again Ballad of the Alamo Bonanza Buenas Tardes Amigo Big Iron Billy the Kid Blue Shadows on the Trail Blue Prairie Buffalo Gals Won t You Come Out Tonight Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie Call of the Canyon Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie The Cattle Call Cheyenne Cimarron Roll On Cocaine Blues Cool Water Cow Cow Boogie Cuma Ti Yi Yi Ay The Cowboy s Life Coyotes Oh My Darling Clementine Deep in the Heart of Texas Don t Fence Me In Don t Take Your Guns to Town El Paso El Paso City Ghost Riders in the Sky A Cowboy Legend 21 Git Along Little Dogies Halfway to Montana The Hills of Old Wyoming Happy Trails Hold on Little Dogies Home on the Range I m an Old Cowhand From the Rio Grande I Ride an Old Paint I Want to Be a Cowboy s Sweetheart Jim a lament about a cowboy whose friend has died at an early age 22 Jingle Jangle Jingle I Got Spurs Little Joe the Wrangler The Last Roundup The Lone Star Trail The Lonesome Rider Man Walks Among Us The Masters Call Me and My Uncle Muleskinner Blues Night Rider s Lament Oh Susanna The Old Chisholm Trail On the Trail of the Buffalo also known as The Buffalo Skinners or The Hills of Mexico The Oregon Trail Pistol Packin Mama Rawhide Red River Valley Red Wing Rocky Mountain Express Rogue River Valley San Antonio Rose Sioux City Sue Song of the Sierras The Strawberry Roan Streets Of Laredo Sweet Betsy from Pike Texas Plains Texas Rangers about an ill fated unit of Texas Rangers headed to the Rio Grande whose time had come to die 22 Tumbling Tumbleweeds Utah Carol The Wayward Wind When the Cactus Is in Bloom The Yellow Rose of Texas Young Wesley References edit Spell L M 1936 Music in Texas A survey of one aspect of cultural progress Austin Texas p 131 Shirley Glenn Daddy of the Cowboy Bands in Oklahoma Today Fall 1959 Vol 9 No 4 p 29 Green Doug Singing in the Saddle pp 1 2 Thorp N 1921 Songs of the Cowboys p 96 Thorpe N Howard Jack 1921 Songs of the Cowboys Boston Houghton Mifflin Company Retrieved May 20 2009 Online edition Online edition Quay Westward Expansion p 179 Early Cowboy Band Interviewed in Frankie Laine An American Dreamer video documentary 2003 Leeds Jeff March 25 2006 Buck Owens Country Singer Dies at 76 The New York Times Retrieved 14 October 2019 The Real Story Behind Johnny Cash amp Folsom Prison Blues folsomcasharttrail com Retrieved 2017 06 15 Carlin Richard November 2002 Carter Wilf Country Music A Biographical Dictionary 60 Davis John T 2000 Austin City Limits 25 Years of American Music Billboard Books pp 55 ISBN 9780823083039 Mazor Barry 2014 Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music Chicago Review Press p 228 Mazor Barry 2012 Meeting Jimmie Rodgers How America s Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century Oxford University Press pp 143 144 ISBN 978 0199891863 Dingus Anne November 1989 Cowboy Songs Texas Monthly 17 11 120 Who Were The Cowboys Behind Cowboy Songs NPR org Retrieved 2019 04 07 Rockstar Games Presents Red Dead Redemption www rockstargames com Retrieved 2018 01 24 Wicks Amanda September 10 2020 Colter Wall Western Swing amp Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs Album Review Pitchfork Retrieved December 24 2020 Ghost Riders In the Sky The Wild Hunt and the Eternal Stampede Esoterx com December 9 2012 Retrieved 26 February 2021 a b Greg Ryder Blue Shadows Frontier Records of Durango Colorado 1994Bibliography editCannon Hal Old Time Cowboy Songs Gibbs Smith ISBN 0 87905 308 9 Green Douglas B Singing in the Saddle The History of the Singing Cowboy Vanderbilt University Press August 2002 ISBN 0 8265 1412 X Hull Myra Cowboy Ballads Johnson Thomas S That Ain t Country The Distinctiveness of Commercial Western Music JEMF Quarterly Vol 17 No 62 Summer 1981 pp 75 84 Lomax John A M A Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads The MacMillan Company 1918 Online edition pdf O Neal Bill Goodwin Fred The Sons of the Pioneers Eakin Press 2001 ISBN 1 57168 644 4 Otto Gray and his Oklahoma Cowboys Early Cowboy Band British Archive of Country Music 2006 CD D 139 Quay Sara E Westward Expansion Greenwood Press 2000 ISBN 0 313 31235 4 Shirley Glenn Daddy of the Cowboy Bands Oklahoma Today Fall 1959 9 4 6 7 29 Thorp N Howard Jack Songs of the Cowboys Houghton Mifflin Company 1908 1921 White John I Git Along Little Dogies Songs and Songmakers of the American West Music in American Life series University of Illinois Press 1989 reprint ISBN 0 252 06070 9External links editThe Academy of Western Artists The Western Music Association Roughstock s History of Country Music Rex Allen Arizona Cowboy Museum amp Willcox Cowboy Hall of Fame Willcox Arizona Nudie s Rodeo Tailors for country amp western artists Country amp Western Music Directory KPOV FM Bend Oregon Calling All Cowboys a weekly music program online featuring western music Voices of Oklahoma interview with Guy Logsdon First person interview conducted on February 16 2010 with Guy Logsdon western music historian Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Western music North America amp oldid 1176000973, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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