Singing in the Saddle
Subtitle: The History of the Singing Cowboy
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press; Country Music Foundation Press
Published: October 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780826514127
Subjects: Country & western; Songs and music; History and criticism; Country And Western Music; Music/Songbooks; Music; USA; Motion picture actors and actr; Genres & Styles - Country & Bluegrass - General; History & Criticism - General; Country musicians; United States; Biography; Cowboys; Motion picture actors and actresses
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.