Western music has gone in and out of style. When it was in style during the era of the TV westerns in the late Fifties and early Sixties, nearly every country artist did a western ballad or two. Some of Nashville's dimestore cowboys could pull it off; some couldn't. Now Bear Family gathers twenty western ballads by those who could. You don't need to know which end of a horse gets up first to appreciate what we've got here.
1 Locklin, Hank - the Man Who Robbed the Bank at Santa Fe
2 Snow, Hank - Jimmy Martinez
3 Robbins, Marty - Reno
4 West, Dottie - Don't Go Near the Indians
5 Allen, Rex - Halfbreed
6 Rainwater, Marvin - the Ballad of Geronimo
7 Barnett, Bobby - the Valley of the Moon
8 Rainwater, Marvin - the Fastest Gun Alive
9 Barnes, Benny - the Man Behind the Gun
10 Snow, Hank - Bonanza
11 Cash, Johnny - Ringo
12 Greene, Lorne - See the Open Range
13 Sykes, Bobby - When Payday Rolls Around
14 Robbins, Marty - Pride and the Badge
15 Robbins, Marty - the Long Tall Shadow
16 Western, Johnny - the Mounties
17 Brown, Jim Ed - the Restless One
18 Snow, Hank - the Great El Tigre
19 Phillips, Stu - Partners
20 Reeves, Jim - Jim, Wore a Tie Today
Western music has gone in and out of style. When it was in style during the era of the TV westerns in the late Fifties and early Sixties, nearly every country artist did a western ballad or two. Some of Nashville's dimestore cowboys could pull it off; some couldn't. Now Bear Family gathers twenty western ballads by those who could. You don't need to know which end of a horse gets up first to appreciate what we've got here.