Troubadour
Troubadour" is a collection of stories that tell the history of the founding of the West with the central character being the Cowboy, beginning with the Celtic roots of the first drovers to the coming of the wire. It begins in the 1840s with the migration of some hearty souls living in the East and concludes at that point in time when there is the dawning of a new century and the noisy, unreliable horseless carriage is being touted as a replacement for the horse.The troubadours, who influenced the title of the album, by definition, were knightly lyric poets and composers who wrote mainly about love and chivalry and composed "ecstatic, lyrical love songs," says R.W. "They would sing ballads of lost love and heroic deeds that they may have personally experienced or observed first hand in their travels. The songs are varied: some are traditional, while others are contemporary," he says. "The intent was not to be purist in nature and feature only the songs that were from that era. The objective was to present a history of the West in chronological order the best way we could"