Backroads and Banjos with Art Rosenbaum on AM1690

Backroads and Banjos with Art Rosenbaum on AM1690


When I Was a Cowboy - Part 2

September 17, 2014

In the mid-1930s, crowds all over the United States and the world became obsessed with cowboy culture. Stars like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry personified the Western hero through their songs and movies. But this lifestyle was hardly representative of cowboy culture and hardship. So, in these segemnts Art looks at the Yazoo compilation When I Was a Cowboy, a collection of real cowboy music which in the 1920s and 1930s.