Like many country artists in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Gene Autry started out as an imitator of Jimmie Rodgers. As an artist, Gene Autry obviously idolized Jimmie Rodgers, as so many did. In ...

Riders in the Sky have played over 6,700 concerts in 36 years Riders in the Sky, a four-piece cowboy-music institution that has been keeping traditional Western music alive in America for 36 years, ...

“I'm a wandering cowboy riding down the trail. Hear the night winds sighin’ with a mournful wail. I feel so lonesome when I hear their song, so I started hummin’ and that’s how the yodel was born.” -- ...

On this day (September 29) in 1907, Orvon Grover Autry was born in Tioga, Texas. Over the course of his 91 years on this earth, he became one of the biggest stars of stage, screen, and radio. He was ...

Both the song and artist appear to be entirely the creation of artificial intelligence ...

WHEN in 1908 a check for $500 came from Harvard University for my first year as a Sheldon Fellow, I was the happiest person in the world. Never before at one time had I owned so much money, money that ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest, Charley Crockett, is a songwriter, singer and guitarist whose music ranges from country to rhythm and blues, cowboy songs, outlaw ballads and the song ...

A song Counting Crows' still-sozzled singer Adam Duritz wrote immediately after (and about) a wild night out, Mr. Jones ...

Mosey into the Diamond Belle Saloon the next handful of Tuesdays and, if you time it right, you may find a room full of cowboys spinning yarns, singing songs and entertaining saloon-goers with poetry.