Cowboy Songs

[psulongago]

Lots of discussion on remakes and other song styles. Was listening yesterday and heard my favorite cowboy song
El Paso by Marty Robbins
I'm sure there are lots of other great ones.

 

[fairgambit]

Lots of discussion on remakes and other song styles. Was listening yesterday and heard my favorite cowboy song
El Paso by Marty Robbins
I'm sure there are lots of other great ones.

A favorite of mine, also by Marty Robbins, is The Streets of Laredo.

 

[Roar More]

Ghostriders in the Sky

 

[Bean78]

"This Ole Cowboy" by the Marshall Tucker Band

 

[Cold Smoke]

Desperado. Eagles or Linda Ronstat

 

[ClarkstonMark]

 

[brupsu]

Big iron

 

[Tri-Power65]

 

[Tri-Power65]

 

[WyomingLion]

Me and My Uncle.....Grateful Dead

 

[81b&w]

 

[Woodpecker]

 

[AWS1022]

Lookin for Love by Johnny Lee.

 

[Connorpozlee]

Lookin for Love by Johnny Lee.

Is that a cowboy song? Are cowboy songs just country songs? I’m not sure how to identify a cowboy song.

 

[Nitwit]

Happy Trails to You

 

[doublehaul]

Sweet Baby James ? James Taylor

 

[kijanacat]

Cattle Call by Eddy Arnold.

Cowboy songs normally have to do with the West, guns and cattle. Country normally deals with the opposite sex, booze (or drugs) and faithlessness. Generally

 

[The Spin Meister]

Tom Mix, the original Singing Cowboy, is from Cameron Co in central Pa. Hole in the wall called Mix Run.

 

[Ranger Dan]

Is that a cowboy song? Are cowboy songs just country songs? I’m not sure how to identify a cowboy song.

A song a cowboy would sing or a song about Cowboys I guess...

 

[Ranger Dan]

Tom Mix, the original Singing Cowboy, is from Cameron Co in central Pa. Hole in the wall called Mix Run.

I hunted out of a camp less that a mile from his birthplace

 

[Ranger Dan]

Poncho and lefty

 

[CF LION]

 

[AWS1022]

Is that a cowboy song? Are cowboy songs just country songs? I’m not sure how to identify a cowboy song.

From the movie Urban Cowboy, so I dubbed it a cowboy song.

 

[Connorpozlee]

From the movie Urban Cowboy, so I dubbed it a cowboy song.

Fair enough. I’ll have to think about this one.

 

[The Spin Meister]

From the movie Urban Cowboy, so I dubbed it a cowboy song.

Urban cowboy just not quite the same.....

 

[Art]

 

[YeOldeCup]

 

[katchthis]

We have both kinds of music , country and western .

 

[sluggo72]

Is that a cowboy song? Are cowboy songs just country songs? I’m not sure how to identify a cowboy song.

No they are Western songs. As in country and WESTERN music

 

[sluggo72]

 

[sluggo72]

 

[Connorpozlee]

No they are Western songs. As in country and WESTERN music

Meh, I think I’ll just sit this one out.

 

[ForesterGump]

 

[HazletonLion]

Is it possible for a cowboy to do The Sounds Of Silence ?
On topic Wolverton Mountain or any song from the Eagles Desperado album, Tequila Sunrise, Outlaw Man, Desperado.

 

[Option Bob]

Frankie Laine’s “Rawhide” and “Gunfight at OK Corral”

 

[interrobang]

 

[PSU2UNC]

This is by FAR the best cowboy song.


This is fairly close second.



"It is known" -- common Dothraki setting (to keep with the equine theme)

 

[wilykyote]

"My Rifle, My Pony and Me"
Dean Martin/Ricky Nelson
from the movie "Rio Bravo"

 

[87 Penn St8]

Sweet Baby James ? James Taylor

Have cousins in The Berkshires. This song is played every time we hit the Mass line on the Thruway/Mass Pike.

 

[87 Penn St8]

Mama Tried Merle Haggard/ covered by Grateful Dead. Jack Straw- a great cowboy and July 4th Dead song- a favorite opener of mine