Singing in the Saddle
Subtitle: The History of the Singing Cowboy
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: October 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780826515063
Subjects: Country & western; Music/Songbooks; Music; USA; Genres & Styles - Country & Bluegrass - General; History & Criticism - General; Biography; Country musicians; Cowboys; History and criticism; Motion picture actors and actresses; Songs and music; United States
First sentence: From the moment more than four hundred years ago that salt-sprayed and weary travelers arrived at the thin crescent of settlement on North America's shores, there was a West beyond the hills, beyond the sunset, a frontier that teased and excited and inflamed the imagination.