From the Bucket of Blood Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada, to the Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas, Texas, to stages at festivals like the Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium in Ruidoso, New Mexico, Western troubadours, Bluegrass pickers, Honky-Tonk singers and soul-searching Country Blues makers are still singing songs that are searing hearts and sparking spontaneous Two-steppin’ nationwide. In 2011, from coast to coast, America’s True West music makers gave us a great year of music with a

March 2012