The 1930s, '40s and '50s saw the rise of a uniquely American performer: the Singing Cowboy in film, on TV and in radio. "Singing cowboys" grew out of real cowboys and traveling cowboy acts who ...

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, ...

Cowboy lore, folk ballads, jazz, Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood are all ingredients of the music of the singing cowboys who were movie staples in the '30s and '40s and then on TV in the '50s. A lot of ...

In May 2009, I shared the story of Gary Sprague, best known in Arizona as The Singing Cowboy. After a syracuse,com reader spotted Sprague out west and sent along the news that he recognized him, ...

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are sharing their own stirring rendition of "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings," the Oscar-nominated song they co-wrote for the 2018 feature film The Ballad of ...

A chat with entertainer Ernie Sites will leave your sides aching and tears in your eyes. The interview is like a roller coaster ride. “I’m a high-energy performer,” said Sites, a cowboy entertainer ...

This week in 1939, The New York World's Fair opened, Joe Louis KO'd Jack Roper in the first round, Hitler turned down FDR's proposal to meet at sea and one of America's singing cowboys recorded the ...

Gene Autry, the cowboy crooner and Hollywood hitmaker who helped popularize country-western music and became one of the most celebrated performers in American history, was born in Tioga, Texas, on ...

Best known by his stage name “Ranger Doug,” Douglas B. Green is an award-winning songwriter, musician, singer, writer, accomplished yodeler, and co-founder of the popular western band, Riders In The ...

Surely the biggest art news last week was the joint acquisition by the Denver Art Museum and the Anschutz Collection of “Cowboy Singing” (pictured), an 1892 painting by Thomas Eakins valued at between ...