Most people associate cowboy and western music originating with Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Tex Ritter but the music predates the era of the “Singing Cowboy” by several decades. For example that toe-tapping number, “Ragtime Cowboy Joe” was penned in Brooklyn in 1912 by Tin Pan Alley writers, Maurice Abrahams, Lewis Muir and Grant Clarke.
Ragtime was a uniquely American music, basically African-American that is an ingredient of jazz that became popular in the mid-1890s. The music of Sco
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