The territory
Western & Cowboy
Ranch country, prairie ballads, Marty Robbins forever.
Western music is older than country and refuses to die. From Marty Robbins and Ian Tyson through to Colter Wall and Vincent Neil Emerson, the cowboy ballad tradition is having one of its quiet renaissances.
The artists
Names worth knowing
USA · 1933 — present
Willie Nelson
The road never asks if he's tired.
USA · 1991 — present
Vincent Neil Emerson
East Texas songwriter in the Van Zandt lineage — literally.
Canada · 1995 — present
Colter Wall
A voice older than the calendar says it should be.
Canada · 1933 — 2022
Ian Tyson
Wrote 'Four Strong Winds'. Then went back to the ranch.
Canada · 1969 — present
Corb Lund
Alberta cowboy country, sharp and funny.