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 ...

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 ...

After the Civil War came the emergence of the American cowboy as we know it. Born out of the need for livestock to be herded northward to different markets, these young, able shepherds became known by ...

Charley Willis’ song still rolls across expansive prairies wherever cattle bellow in basso profundo. Milam County native Willis (1847-1930), who rests in a simple grave in Davilla just across the Bell ...

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 ...

"I've always been afraid of losing that human connection with fans," Ryan Bingham tells me. We're holed up in the green room at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, where he is preparing for the second of ...