Our heroes and villains roam the borderlands, and tequila and gunpowder figure prominently in our lyrical tales. When we employ horns, they’re usually echoing some Sonoran sound, and many a lead guitar hook sounds like it fell out of a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western.
A book that would make a good song is The Monkeywrench Gang by Edward Abbey. It is high adventure, high drama, high romance, and our heroes are doing their able-best to save our desert.
A cowboy singer I like today is Andy H
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