"Cool Water," "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" - classic tunes that have become ubiquitous references to the Western way of life. They also are calling cards to Tucson, written by ...

Western music has sadly taken a back seat since the Tucson-born Western Music Association fled town a few years ago. Lost in the shuffle has been homegrown Western outfits like the Desert Sons, who ...

Corb Lund plays country and western music. His sound is less Tim McGraw and George Strait western music, and more like John Prine, David Allan Coe western music. There's slide guitar, there's drawl ...

Ian Munsick was making his debut at bucket-list venue Red Rocks Amphitheatre just outside of Denver in June 2024 when he noticed someone step onstage. JoRee LaFrance, a member of the Apsáalooke/Crow ...

Back when Jon Muq was living in Uganda, he experienced a transformative musical moment: While cleaning his cousin’s house, he found a video recording of the 1985 “We Are the World” charity single. “I ...

In a world where mainstream music is often detached from politics or cultural identity, artists like Xiuhtezcatl Martínez offer a powerful alternative. A hip-hop singer/songwriter with Mexica — an ...

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, ...

In this final article of the series on India's evolving jazz landscape, we examine the growing role of contemporary Western music education in shaping new generations of musicians. For generations, ...