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While in N GA visiting my two brothers and Mom, one brother gave me a cd full of music by Red Steagall. I listened to it on the drive back and it was absolutely the best coyboy music/stories I have ever heard. I guess I am hooked, so now I am wondering if there are other "favorites" out there in "lever gun" world.

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Try Don Edwards for good old time cowboy songs.
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I grew up with my late Dad listening to Marty Robbins singing the "Songs of the Gunfighters", or some title like that -- on a record, no less!

It's a great one, especially with tunes like "Big Iron", "Cool Water" and of course "El Paso".

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Wynn Stewart.
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"Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Wynn Stewart, and Tommy Collins were a continuance of the West Coast's robust, independent-minded country music scene .... Buck's style of music and that of Haggard, Wynn Stewart and Collins, collectively known as the "Bakersfield Sound," helped define the country music of a generation."
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Old No7 wrote:I grew up with my late Dad listening to Marty Robbins singing the "Songs of the Gunfighters", or some title like that -- on a record, no less!

It's a great one, especially with tunes like "Big Iron", "Cool Water" and of course "El Paso".

Tight groups,

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Amen to Marty Robbins. His songs "Utah Carol", "The Strawberry Roan", and the "Masters Call" are all great. One of the greatest voices to every grace the airwaves.

Old No7 the album is " Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs". I have the album on my iPhone.
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Best Cowboy music....is the one you don't turn on. Sorry guys, I'm a cowboy that listens to rock.
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Not a huge country fan either, but George Strait's classic--and the one that really put him on the map--"Amarillo (By Morning)" to me is the very best - and best road tune too. Has got to be on your CD or MP3 compilation! Here's a concert clip: rtsp://v7.cache8.c.youtube.com/CjgLENy73wIaLwn8KJmMrpqnORMYESARFEIJbXYtZ29vZ2xlSARSB3Jlc3VsdHNgkanAqoC0xOhLDA==/0/0/0/video.3gp
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kimwcook wrote:Best Cowboy music....is the one you don't turn on. Sorry guys, I'm a cowboy that listens to rock.
I' sure Kim knows the difference, but "cowboy" is a far cry from "country"; many will put them together, but, they'd soon learn the dfference.

Micheal Martin Murphy has a great 4 album set, Sons of the Joakim, Guy Clark, Sons of the Desert, Waddie Mithell, Dwight Yoakam has 2 good cowboys albums, Ty Herdon, Asleep at the Wheel, and quite a few others! Truly music!
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Old No7 wrote:I grew up with my late Dad listening to Marty Robbins singing the "Songs of the Gunfighters", or some title like that -- on a record, no less!

It's a great one, especially with tunes like "Big Iron", "Cool Water" and of course "El Paso
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Chris Ledoux.....and George Strait
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Ian Tyson, Michael Martin Murphy, Chris Ledoux, Brenn Hill, Dan Roberts and Templeton Thompson to name a few of the great current folks. And no, Country music is not the same as Western music.
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Ozzy Osbourn, and Molly Hatchet, That's who I listen too in the country...and in the city!
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Dave Stamey is probably not widely known outside of western music circles, but he darn sure should be. The guy is an incredible performer, and is probably tied with Don Edwards as my favorite western music artist.

http://www.davestamey.com/ You can hear excerpts from some of his songs on his website, under the 'Mercantile' tab.
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I have a soft spot for Texas Swing....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwReZml9 ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X37xnM3V ... re=related

There just isn't any popular music I much care for if it was past 1950 or so.... :wink:
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I'm really eclectic in my music tastes; I have everything by Eric Clapton, and albums from Texas Tornadoes, ZZ Top, Poco, Canned Heat, Ray Wiley Hubbard, SR Vaughn, Towns Van Zant, Steve Green, Pearl Snaps, Beatles, KISS, Rollin Stones, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Santana, some bluegrass, jazz, swing, big band and even some classical. Only stuff I dislike is hiphop & rap (just WHAT is the difference)?

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Check out Michael Berry's "Texas Time" podcast everyday here:

http://www.ktrh.com/cc-common/podcast/s ... astime.xml

He fills in for Mark Levin from time to time and his local talk show is good as well. The Texas music is an addition to the rest of it.

I listen when I can on the 'net.

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Michael Murphy, Ian Tyson, RW Hampton, Marty Robbins, Don Edwards and love Alision Krauss's music. danny
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Now I am a bluesman. I play blues guitar. Been in sever blues bands back in the day, etc...

BUT, if I were to choose the best Cowboy Music, it would have to be Marty Robbins, no question! That man had a voice made from solid gold and his old Capitol recording were THE BEST!! All the wannabes they got now could'nt hold a candle to Marty Robbins.......and remember folks, this is comming from a guy that is buried in the blues!

Marty was the business guys....

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Sat evenings, they have All Blues.....very good show. You can stream it.

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I Like Chris Ledoux too! Some country and some cowboy, not necissarily the same thing. Hobie can we get a spell checker PLEASE?
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Old No7 wrote:I grew up with my late Dad listening to Marty Robbins singing the "Songs of the Gunfighters", or some title like that -- on a record, no less!

It's a great one, especially with tunes like "Big Iron", "Cool Water" and of course "El Paso".

Tight groups,

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Marty Robbins is my favorite but I also like Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers.
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Check out Dan Roberts. He has a song called "Cowboy.com" that tells the story of the old time cowboy bumping into a modern day ranch management company. He was/is a real deal rodeo and ranch cowboy, like Chris Ledoux and it shows in his lyrics. He also writes for some of the country artists. Her wrote :Beaches of Cheyenne" for Garth Brooks. He lives just west of Ft Worth.

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As others have said, Marty Robbins is my favorite. I particularly like San Angelo. They made a movie based on it "Guns of a Stranger". But as to my favorite(s), I'd have to go with the trilogy, "El Paso, Felina, and El Paso City". With special mention going to "Man Walks Amoung Us". Anyone who has spent anytime on the desert, especially in the morning just at dawn can relate
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Marty Robbins, Roy Rogers, Sons of the Pioneers,Michael Martin Murphy... and


Doesn't anyone listen to Riders in the Sky?

The song the do "How the Yodel was Born" is great! :lol: :lol:

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Well I'm gonna go with Marty Robbins too for top spot. Let's face it, how many forty-somethings have his cowboy CD. I make at least one.

But I'd like to toss in a dark horse that no one has mentioned yet........ Frankie Laine. My folks have an album of his that they used to listen too a lot. It was very good. Let' face it, he wasn't country/western at heart but he does a dang good job of it and it can't be bad from the guy who sang the theme to Rawhide. Haven't heard it for years, need to get it. He also did numerous other western songs and soundtracks.

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Another vote here for Sons of the Pioneers and Ghost Riders.

FWIW Rhino Records put out a great 4 CD set of Favorite Cowboy songs a few years back. I picked up one on sale at Borders. One CD is nothing but Roy Rogers, another is Gene Autry and Roy with movie songs, a third one (my personal favorite) is theme songs from movies and TV series, (yes, they have The Rifleman, Bonanza, Colt 45, Have Gun Will Travel, Wyatt Earp, Gunsmoke and a lot of the more obscure ones too) the last CD is a lot of Lefty Frizzell, Patsy Montana and other old, long gone Nashville greats doing cowboy songs when the Grand Ole Opry still had some Western in it and no lasers or smoke pots on stage.

Maybe it's time to put some "Western" back into Country and Western?

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This new rock and roll so-called country sucks a huge one. I have to go back to the sixties to find a decent trailing edge to "country" music. Good old Hank and Red, Tom, and Mel...
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Here's another fellow I like, Dave Ball ....

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BlaineG wrote:This new rock and roll so-called country sucks a huge one. I have to go back to the sixties to find a decent trailing edge to "country" music. Good old Hank and Red, Tom, and Mel...
+1 I must agree..........

listen to the "roadhouse" on XM radio and you'll know what I mean.

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LK, between Frankie Laine and Glen Yarbrough they covered most of the theme songs for western TV shows and the movies. danny
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I grew up on Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins (Mom's favorite), Ferron Young, Buck Owens, Charlie Pride, Charlie Rich, the great Merle Haggard, Tammy Waynette, Lynn Anderson, of course Pasty, Loretta and Conway....the list goes on and on. I'll listen to any and all of them and most of the modern artist, I said most....with Alan Jackson and George Strait being high on the list. I've been known to listen to a lot of 60's and 70's rock too.

I do not like the old, twangy, "true" county sound of Bob Wills or Hank Sr.

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The group "Asleep At the Wheel" is excellent Texas/Western type swing music.
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new pig hunter wrote:Here's another fellow I like, Dave Ball ....

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RKrodle wrote:
Old No7 wrote:I grew up with my late Dad listening to Marty Robbins singing the "Songs of the Gunfighters", or some title like that -- on a record, no less!

It's a great one, especially with tunes like "Big Iron", "Cool Water" and of course "El Paso".

Tight groups,

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Amen to Marty Robbins. His songs "Utah Carol", "The Strawberry Roan", and the "Masters Call" are all great. One of the greatest voices to every grace the airwaves.

Old No7 the album is " Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs". I have the album on my iPhone.

My kids used to ask me to get out my "Big CDs" and play them.
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Great post. This is one of my favorite music genres. There are some good ones performing now, but I sure did like the "old timers"! Surprised nobody mentioned Johnny Bond.
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For all fans of "Gunfighter Ballads" try to find a copy of the obscure "More Gunfighter Ballads" - this is the album with the tune "San Angelo"on it.
Next to Marty Robbins, Willie Nelson's "Red Headed Stranger" makes for some fine cowboy tunes.
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