In a fast-moving world where MTV has replaced live concerts and music is often delivered digitally off a “jukebox” known as a PC, can there still be room for a real live, old-fashioned balladeer?
Absolutely—if you’re Don Edwards, a self-proclaimed minstrel of Western music. “That’s how I see myself,” he said in a recent interview for True West, “carrying on the tradition of bringing music to the people; one person, one song at a time.” Edwards, originally an eastern transp

True West March/April 2025
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- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus