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Buster breaks the barroom tension with a boisterous song about "Surly Joe", [b] [c] to the patrons' delight. Joe's brother challenges Buster to a gunfight. Buster complies and proceeds to shoot off each of the fingers of his opponent's right hand before stylishly finishing him off with the sixth shot delivered over-the-shoulder using a mirror.
The first line, "There is a lonely train called the 3:10 to "Yuma", is the only obvious aspect that the two songs have in common. Its lyrics reflect more generally on human existence as a whole, as suggested in the line "They say the life of man is made up of four seasons". The song is built up around four basic verses.
A singing cowboy was a subtype of the archetypal cowboy hero of early Western films. It references real-world campfire side ballads in the American frontier.The original cowboys sang of life on the trail with all the challenges, hardships, and dangers encountered while pushing cattle for miles up the trails and across the prairies.
In 1908, N. Howard "Jack" Thorp published the first book of western music, titled Songs of the Cowboys. Containing only lyrics and no musical notation, the book was very popular west of the Mississippi River. Most of these cowboy songs are of unknown authorship, but among the best known is "Little Joe the Wrangler" written by Thorp himself. [6] [7]
Soft Will is the third and final studio album by American indie rock trio Smith Westerns. It was released in June 2013 under Mom + Pop Music , and produced by Chris Coady . It is the band's final album, as they broke up on December 13, 2014.
"Rawhide" is a Western song written by Ned Washington (lyrics) and composed by Dimitri Tiomkin in 1958. It was originally recorded by Frankie Laine. The song was used as the theme to Rawhide, a western television series that ran on CBS from 1959 to 1965. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of ...
The first part of Kevin Costner's planned four-part epic saga strives for a lot, but serves more to remind us of the best of the genre without achieving it itself.
The Blues Brothers Band recorded the song as part of their 1998 film Blues Brothers 2000. [citation needed] Ned Sublette recorded the song, in a Cuban-influenced style, on his 1999 album "Cowboy Rumba". [21] In the 1993 video game Back to the Future Part III the song is rendered in Chiptune for background music during the first level.