Johnny Rodriguez – Alibis captures the exhaustion of loving someone whose excuses no longer ring true. Released by Mercury in 1978, the song reached...
Tom Russell’s “Tonight We Ride” (2004) takes No. 54 in our Best Western Songs countdown. Written by Russell, it opens Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs with a restless journey through borderland legend. Its bold narrator, dark humor, and sense of movement make it a vivid example of modern...
Brad Paisley’s “Alcohol” (2005) takes No. 54 in our Best Country Songs countdown. Written by Paisley and produced by Frank Rogers, it gives a familiar country subject an unexpected narrator. Instead of telling a drinking story from the barstool, Paisley lets alcohol itself do the talking.
The story...
Johnny Rodriguez – Alibis captures the exhaustion of loving someone whose excuses no longer ring true. Released by Mercury in 1978, the song reached No. 16 on Billboard’s country chart in 1979. Its polished arrangement gives Rodriguez room to tell a quiet, painful story about trust wearing...
Sawyer Brown’s “This Time” brings a hopeful bounce to a relationship in need of repair. Released as a single in 1994, the song finds a man trying to break a familiar cycle of arguments. He knows that love is still there; the challenge is finding a better...
Dixie Chicks – “Wide Open Spaces” captures the excitement and uncertainty of leaving home. Released as a single in 1998, it gives a young woman room to make choices, take risks, and discover who she wants to be. At the same time, the recording connects that search...
Charley Pride’s “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” (1971) takes No. 53 in our Best Country Songs countdown. Written by Ben Peters and produced by Jack Clement, it turns everyday affection into a country standard. At its heart is a simple idea: lasting love depends on showing someone...
Duane Eddy’s “Ballad of Paladin” (1962) brings a familiar television Western theme into the world of instrumental guitar. At No. 53 in our Best Western Songs countdown, it offers a different kind of storytelling: the melody carries the action, while Eddy’s guitar takes the leading role. The...
No. 52 in our Best Western Songs countdown. The Highwaymen’s “The Last Cowboy Song” brings four distinctive country voices to a reflection on the passing of the cowboy era. Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson give the 1985 recording the feeling of old friends...
No. 52 in our Best Country Songs countdown. Flatt and Scruggs’ “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” makes its entrance with a burst of banjo and never loses its forward pull. There is no singer to carry the story: the picking, the rhythm, and the exchanges between instruments supply all...
George Morgan – “There Goes My Love” brings a polished country voice to a song of romantic loss. Written by Buck Owens and released by Columbia in 1956, it gives Morgan room to balance a graceful delivery with the sting of watching love slip away.
A Buck Owens...
Western Music Time (4-10 Nov 2026)
Famous Voices Celebrate the Music of the Silver Screen Cowboys
Opening theme
Sons of the San Joaquin – Bound for the Rio Grande
Ames Brothers – Cool Water
Dinah Shore – Along the Navajo Trail
Hank Snow – Texas Plains
Ginny Simms – On the Old Spanish Trail
Mills...
