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 ...

In country music, the cowboy archetype has long produced great songwriting. That's partly because the idea of the cowboy is more complex than you might think. Some cowboys are rugged and a little ...

The open range was dark as cowpuncher N. Howard “Jack” Thorp toiled by firelight somewhere deep in the mesquite, reading ...

A hundred years ago, a collection of folk music forever re-tuned the American songbook. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John A. Lomax introduced the country to the music of the American ...