There’s something comforting about being on Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch, up in Newhall, California. Passing through the gate and onto the lot, there’s...
“The Devil Always Gets the Best Lines”
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Queen of the Soiled Doves
Just the sound of her name draws a mental picture: Mattie Silks. No plain, dowdy woman in a calico dress would ever wear such a name; no girl with...
Gunfight at the Stilwell Corral
January 14, 1881 Siner and part-time gambler Mike O’Rourke, 18, and his roommate Robert Petty, 23, are eating in Smith’s rest-aurant in Charleston,...
Shootin’ Shot
More than any six-gun or rifle, the shotgun could easily be called the “gun that won the West!” Despite the acclaim given to the six-guns and rifles...
Is Wyatt Earp Overrated?
Frank Stilwell got himself shot full of holes, literally perforated from head to toe, outside the railroad depot in downtown Tucson, Arizona, in...
It Happened in the West
A Tennessean by birth, James A. Crutchfield (Jim to his friends) says he became a Westerner by choice, and when he has the choice, his preferred...
Trailing Lewis and Clark
The Missouri River northwest of Bismarck, North Dakota, is not the same river explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark saw in 1805, even though...
More Buffalo than Gold
Where have all the buffalo gone? You see, I first visited the Badlands and Black Hills of South Dakota in the late 1980s—before legalized gambling...
Great High Mountain
Take a stroll through Bluegrass and Gospel memories with Ralph Stanley and friends. This reissue of early favorites with one new is a terrific...
Sincerely
Guitarist and vocalist Josh Crowe has a solid reputation for performing traditional Bluegrass music built upon a strong guitar rhythm. On this...
Cowboy Cool
Somewhere between Pop Country and Cowboy Western you’ll find the music of Royal Wade Kimes, a Nashville pro whose sound is soulful, sexy and...
Big Time
Rob Ickes (which rhymes with “bikes”) has become one of the most renowned and respected dobro players in Bluegrass. He is a founding member of Blue...