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, ...

Grammy-winning Riders in the Sky, performing at Sorg Opera House in Middletown on Saturday, March 12, is the modern embodiment of the singing cowboy sound. The group has been championing this truly ...

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 ...

They were the clean-shaven heroes of Western movies. White hat firmly in place, they would launch into song. The singing cowboy was made most famous by Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter and others in ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. In the new Ken Burns PBS series on the history of country music, my guest, Doug Green, talks about the era of the singing cowboy as epitomized by the most popular ...

Musician Doug Green talks about a largely forgotten chapter of music history, the singing cowboy. Green wrote a book on singing cowboys, and is featured in Ken Burns' new PBS series on the history of ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. In the new Ken Burns PBS series on the history of country music, my guest, Doug Green, talks about the era of the singing cowboy as epitomized by the most popular ...

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 ...