With great song titles such as “I’m Afraid of Dyin’” and “Cowboy Lullaby,” this CD should be more engaging. Dave Insley’s voice has a great rough and tumble quality, but the tunes on this compilation are too cold and hygienic. Insley is singing in some smoky bar, but the band is playing somewhere else. The whole CD seems disconnected from itself. It held such promise, but it feels very lonesome indeed. —Chris Wienk
May 2006
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- Scorched Earth
- Sheriff Harvey Whitehill, Silver City Stalwart
- The Conquest of Texas: Ethic Cleansing in the Promised Land
- Imagining the African American West
- Gunsmoke: an American Institution
- Hidden Treasures of the American West
- Blood Debt
- Rekindled
- Pot Luck
- Spooky Texas Tales
- Guarding the Overland Trails
- Crusaders of the Sagebrush
- PBS Cowboys Up with Texas Ranch House
- It’s Gotta Be the Choctaws
More In This Issue
- Mail-Order Brides
- Spicing Up Your Kitchen
- The Old Military Post Road
- Tragic Powwow
- Collecting the West Roundup 2005
- Prices Ride Tall in the Saddle
- Live at the Parlor
- The Wagon Master
- Will you help me out? For over 40 years, I’ve been trying to figure out this Steve McQueen line from my favorite Western, The Magnificent Seven: “It took me a long time to learn my elbow from a hot rock.”
- I’ve concluded that the James-Younger Gang got more than $52,000 in about 12 years. What do you suppose they did with it? I was also wondering why Frank James, who lived until 1915, didn’t share more about the gang’s doings
- What is a needle gun?
- In Bandolero!, Sheriff July Johnson has the same name/role as he does in Lonesome Dove. Do you know what the correlation is?
- After the Northfield, Minnesota, bank robbery, a photo of Cole Younger shows his right eye swollen shut. What caused that injury?
- What can you tell me about Jeff Milton, who supposedly said, “I never killed a man who didn’t need killing?”
- Call Me Lonesome
- Crashyertown
- The Hanging Judge’s Town
- The Wild West
- Hacienda Brothers
- Playing for Change
- One Dime at a Time
- A few years ago, a TV Western aired with a character named Bill Longley. He was dressed in a white shirt, black pants and a black hat, and rode a black and white horse. Was there a real Bill Longley?