Don’t Fence Me In is another popular American song with music by Cole Porter and lyrics by Robert Fletcher and Cole Porter. The members of The Western Writers of America included this song in the Top 100 Western Songs of all time. The song was originally written in 1934 for Adios, Argentina, an unproduced 20th […]

Wildfire is a somber story song that Michael Martin Murphey originally recorded and became his highest-charting pop hit in the United States. The members of The Western Writers of America included the song in the Top 100 Western Songs of all time. Michael Murphey and Larry Cansler are the writers of the song. It was […]

Desperado is one of the most popular songs of the American rock band the Eagles, written by Glenn Frey and Don Henley. The song not only appeared on the 1973 album Desperado but in numerous compilation albums as well. It also ranked No. 494 on Rolling Stone’s 2004 list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of […]

Big Iron is a country ballad song that Marty Robbins wrote and performed. It is one of the Top 100 Western Songs of all time chosen by the members of The Western Writers of America. In April 1960, Robbins’ version of the song reached number 5 on the Billboard Country chart and number 26 on […]

Streets of Laredo, also popularly called Cowboy’s Lament, is a famous American cowboy ballad and is voted by The Western Writers of America as one of the Top 100 Western Songs of all time. An old-time cowboy named Frank Maynard, took the authorship and ownership of the revised edition of the song which was entitled […]

Red River Valley is one of the most notable popular folk songs. It is a standard of cowboy music of uncertain origins that has gone under various names. It ranked #10 on the Top 100 Western Songs of all time chosen by the members of The Western Writers of America. The popularity of the song […]

Tumbling Tumbleweeds is a song composed by Bob Nolan, a Canadian native while working as a caddy and living in Los Angeles in the 1930s. It is one of the most famous songs that has been associated with the Sons of the Pioneers. This song was chosen as one of the Top 100 Western Songs […]