Thirteen-year-old Phoebe White taught herself to yodel when she was 8. Known as Phoebe the Yodeling Cowgirl, she's won 24 talent competitions and her album is number seven on the Western music chart.

In traditional African-American spirituals, crossing the river frequently means traversing the River of Jordan, a metaphor for transitioning out of this world and into the next. In other words, dying.

Cowboy Carter Chronicle explores a groundbreaking course at the University of Houston that unravels the rich tapestry of Black contributions to the American West ...

Steve Cormier is fond of saying he doesn’t write “ride into the sunset songs.” What Cormier, a veteran Western musician, means is that the cowboy songs he pens are rooted in the life of actual, ...