Exuberant might be another title for this high energy album, which is a callback to the good ol’ days when Rock ‘n’ Roll was fun and Country made you feel good. Alternative-something or other, Beavers and Shurman straddle a midpoint between Tom Petty and Jackson Browne. West coast, not Western, their L.A. sound (mixing electric and acoustic lap steel and pedal steel guitars, a Wurlitzer, dobro, mouth harp, bass, percussion and original vocals) is funky Americana at its best. The lyric

January/February 2006
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
- UNBRIDLED: THE WESTERN HORSE IN FICTION AND NONFICTION
- Spanning Washington: Historic Bridges of the Evergreen State
- TO SAVE THE WILD BISON
- HEARTS WEST: TRUE STORIES OF MAIL-ORDER BRIDES ON THE FRONTIER
- Buffalo Bill’s America
- VOICE OF THE BORDERLANDS
- Haunted by Hardin
- Starring the Cowboys of America
- WESTERN TRADITIONS: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST
- The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay, 1897-1899
- The Salish people and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- THE ART OF SERGIO LEONE’S ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
- PEOPLE OF THE MOON
- EYE OF THE WOLF
More In This Issue
- I would like your opinion on the deaths of outlaws Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
- A Cowboy’s Cowboy-song Singer
- Sheridan, Wyoming
- Billings Fills the Bill
- On a Mission along El Camino Real
- Uncrowned Heroine, Among Great Men
- “I Should Have Killed Them All”
- Right out of Nowhere
- Home to You
- Do you know of any books written about Scott Cooley (and his gang)?
- Journeys
- Caldwell, Kansas, is mentioned often in the magazine, but why doesn’t Hunnewell—a wild, border town itself—get the same coverage?
- Why did Wyatt Earp never hold the top law enforcement position in any town where he worked?
- I’ve heard that during an Old West gunfight, the persons who drew their guns first were often the ones who got shot. Is this true?
- During 1952, when I was learning to be a Naval Aviator in Pensacola, Florida, I read a book on the Battle of the Little Bighorn written from the Indian point of view. Do you know the title?
- Cobra Pistols
- The Best of New Mexico Western
- Jubilee
- Calsong
- This Weary World