THESE are what I grew up with as Cowboy music. Western could be them, too, but more likely Bob Wills and what we called Honky-tonk music. COuntry was Acuff, Cline, etc.

When I met my Rog in 1979 we worked at a "country western" radio station and we had a great mix with all of the old standards, Chris LeDoux hand-delivering his new albums, and some crossover like Jerry Jeff Walker. Don Williams, Michael Martin Murphy and a few others were also some of our favs.