From Baxter Black to the Powwow Idol

Riders in the Sky Fred “Too Slim” Labour has mercifully taken a break from playing a tune on his cheeks to tell True West what Riders in the Sky is up to this year. He’s personally cooking up a new joke, which he will unveil sometime this Autumn. Ranger Doug, “keeper of statistics,” as Too Slim calls him, says that, as of June, the group is 50 shows shy of its 6,000th appearance—that works out to roughly a show every other day for the past 33 years! Rollicking audiences of folks read