The Wild West cowboy occupies a symbolic and central place in popular culture. The lone rider, out on the range… The white-hatted hero facing up to a gang of outlaws in a gunfight… The wagon train heading out over the horizon… Celebrated in cinema since the beginning of movies, the cowboy has also found a regular home on record, as this vinyl LP compilation testifies. Listen to these songs and, with just a little imagination, you can picture the solitary cowboy on his trusty steed, watching a cattle round-up, or making his way into a town like Tombstone… A timeless myth, captured forever in these Songs Of The Wild West

1. Don’t Take Your Guns to Town – Johnny Cash
2. Big Iron – Marty Robbins
3. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky – Eddy Arnold
4. The 3:10 to Yuma – Frankie Laine
5. Gunslinger – Katie Lee
6. The Streets of Laredo – Don Gibson
7. The Old Chisholm Trail – Tex Johnson
8. Tennessee Stud – Eddy Arnold
9. The Pony Express (I’ve Got to Carry the Mail) – Jimmie Driftwood
10. El Paso – Marty Robbins
11. Jesse James – the Kingston Trio
12. Wanted Man – Frankie Laine
13. Death Valley – Glen Campbell
14. Lost on the Desert – Johnny Cash
15. When It’s Springtime in Alaska (It’s Forty Below) – Johnny Horton
16. Sam Bass – Tex Ritter
17. Nineteen Men – Johnny Western
18. The Long Black Veil – Lefty Frizzell