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 ...

Miranda Lambert is longing for life in the wild West in "If I Was a Cowboy": "If I was a cowboy, I'd be wild and free / Rollin' around these towns like tumbleweeds ... If I was a cowboy, I'd be the ...

Cameron Hawthorn uses country music to tell queer stories — full stop. If country music is three chords and the truth, then Hawthorn uses the storied genre to tell his own story, one that has only ...

The early 1990s country charts were ruled by guys named Garth and Vince and a few others, and Toby Keith wasn’t exactly welcomed with open arms when he rode in to Nashville from the oil fields. He ...

Mary has known and loved her husband Crick since they were children. Their lives fall into a familiar routine built around work, arguments and her pregnancy, but everything changes when Mary has a ...

Crockett grew up poor and got his start busking for tips. He's since played the Hollywood Bowl and been nominated for a Grammy. He talks music and plays songs from his new album, Dollar A Day. This is ...

Kelsey Ervi discovered “Late, A Cowboy Song” as an undergraduate at Baylor University in a book of collected plays. More than a decade later, they will direct the play as a student in Northwestern’s ...

Not a cowboy song - it's a song from a 1930s Yiddish musical. And Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin, who wrote a lot of, like, songs for movies, and Sammy Cahn wrote a lot of lyrics for Sinatra - they took ...

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 ...