Semibegun #17 | Anyone Can Be a Cowboy 03292023 by www.repeater-radio.com

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In the 1930s, against the backdrop of a crushing Depression and westward migration across the Dust Bowl, a new American Hero occupied the B-movie and country music landscape. Dressed in pristine wrangler costumes and a large white hat, singing cowboys like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers crooned their emotions in a popular country western style while riding across the silver screen in pursuit of villains and gals. Off-screen, many musicians took up themes of the American west, based both in myth and reality, and performed in groups with names like Tex Russell and His Hollywood Cowboys and Girls of the Golden West. A completely American music with strong influences of swing, blues, Tejano, European folk, and hill billy music, these Singing Cowboys, Western Swing Bands, Yodeling Blues Singers, and Mexican-American Songsters of the 1930s to 1950s flesh out the sound of the American West and its characters. Anyone can be a cowboy out here in the everywhere west!