COWBOY SONGS

COWBOY SONGS Although Western literature has been popular in America since the days of James Fenimore Cooper and Zane Grey (right up to today with Louis L'Amour), cowboy songs were discovered by urban America with the publication of JOHN A. LOMAX'S Cowboy Ballads in 1910, followed by several other collections. Lomax introduced such classics as Home on the Range and Git Along, Little Doggies, providing the backbone for cowboy singers' repertoires for decades to come, and also solidifying the…