Gene Autry, known as the Singing Cowboy, epitomized the western star, performing in movies, television and radio for more than three decades. © Sunset Boulevard ...

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 ...

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, ...

WATFORD CITY — Singer and songwriter Jessie Veeder has been named a finalist for three awards by the Academy of Western Artists. Her 2024 album "Yellow Roses" is in contention for 2024 Western Country ...

For the past decade, Josh Weathers has been hearing the same refrain from his wife. Kady Weathers has been watching the chickens scratch and the horses run around their north Texas home and pondering ...

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 ...

Today’s country music genre had its beginnings in the 1920s with the popularization of two types of music: rural white bluegrass or “hillbilly” music and “western” or “cowboy” music. The two styles ...

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.

Chuckwagon Festival at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum offers family fun ...