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Western Music Time (22-29 April 2026)
DJ OJ Sikes
Western Music Time
Western Music Time (22-29 April 2026)
Instrument IDs, Traditional Songs
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Down the Trail to San Antone – Sons of the Pioneers Featured Instruments: Fiddles, Dobro Guitars & Mandolin Ragtime Annie (Raggin’ On) – Rex Allen or Alan Crocket (fiddle) Jim Jam Jive – Karl Farr (electric guitar) Steel Guitar Rag – Noel Boggs (steel guitar) Saddle Serenade – Hays County Gals (dobro/acoustic steel) Mama Don’t Like Music – Flatt & Scruggs Rawhide – Bill Monroe (1-mandolin, 2- fiddle, 3- 5-string banjo) 2 Queens of Western & Country Music Cowboy’s Sweetheart – Patsy Montana Montana Plains – Patsy Montana It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels – Kitty Wells Amigo’s Guitar – Kitty Wells Traditional Cowboy Songs (composers mostly unknown) Yellow Rose of Texas – Gene Autry Nelly Bly – Andy Parker & the Plainsmen Colorado Trail – Roy Rogers Cowboy’s Meditation – Andy Parker & the Plainsmen I Ride an Old Paint – Rex Allen Trail to Mexico – Tex Ritter Rose of the Alamo – Wesley Tuttle Buffalo Gals – Joey Miskulin My Love is a Rider – Girls of the Golden West O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie – Sons of the Pioneers
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