Cowboy Tracks: Recent Episodes
Nancy Flagg
Join Nancy around the campfire to hear authentic western music and cowboy poetry. Something deep in your soul will resonate to stories from the early wranglers, Mexican vaqueros, old West adventurers, Silver Screen buckaroos, contemporary real cowboys, and all who appreciate wide open spaces, freedom, and the western lifestyle.
This March 27, 2027 episode of Cowboy Tracks is called "Tumbleweed Time" and includes songs by these artists: Patty Clayton, Hot Texas Swing Band, Andy Wilkinson & Andy Hedges, The Farmer and Adele, Jim Jones, Tallgrass Express String Band, Riders in the Sky, Hot Club of Cowtown, Ryan Fritz, Rusted Spurs, Dave Stamey, The Sonoran Dogs, The Rifters, Carolyn Martin, Dolly Parton.
Here's the playlist of today's CowboyTracks radio show and podcast: "The West Lives On" episode.
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Flickin' My Pick (instr) Jethro Burns & Tiny Moore Back to Back
Socios Doug Figgs One More Ride
West Texas Rhapsody Sarah Pierce Cowgirls Ride
Call of the Canyon Hot Club of Cowtown Live from Belfast
Ian and Charlie Tom Hiatt/Darrell Arnold
Cowgirls Ride
Navajo Trail Belinda Gail Granite Mountain
Tall and Uncut (poem) Duane Nelson The Girl in the Yellow Checked Dress
Blue and Lonesome Open Range & the Stampede Swing Band Swingtime in the Rockies
Once I Was a Cowboy Joel White Once I Was a Cowboy
Standing on Our Sacred Ground Joni Harms single
Cowboy Heaven Jeff Mamett single
Where Cowboys Ride Aspen Black Born to Be a Cowgirl
Blue Bonnet Breeze Leelee Robert Swing Set
Across the Great Divide Kenn Lee The Long Way Home
Salt River Valley Rena Randall and the Due West Trio Ten Winters and Ten Springs
The Auctioneer Dave Stamey Buckaroo Man
Hawaiian Sky (instr) Herb Ohta Jr Ukulele Journey
This week's episode of Cowboy Traxks is called "Western Sphere" and is chock full of contemporary western music. Pretend you don't notice the 40-seconds or so of silence near the beginning and enjoy the show. The playlist is as follows:
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Today's episode of Cowboy Tracks is "A Spring Thing" and includes western songs, western swing and cowboy poetry celebrating the Spring season. Here's the playlist:
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Wind Jig Ernie Martinez Where I Make My Home
Spring Has Come Hot Texas Swing Band Ain't Dead Yet
Wildflower Reunion Tallgrass Express String Band Sky & Water, Wind & Grass
Springtime Ian Tyson Cowboyography
The Roundup in the Spring Mary Kaye Frontier
I’d Like to Be in Texas When They Roundup in the Spring (instr) The McDades Cowboy Celtic
Blue Bonnet Breeze Lee Lee Robert Swing Set
Spring-a Cowboy's View (poem) Diane Tribitt Ranchin' Rhymes
Springtime in the Rockies Lissa Hanner My Colorado
Waitin' for Spring Prickly Pair & the Cactus Chorale Free Rangin'
Springtime in Colorado (instr) Michael Wark single
Bloom in Spring Mark Kerr Ride Along
Texas Bluebonnets Rusted Spurs West Tumbleweeds and Old Horses
Spring on the Prairie Connie Kaldor Wood River
Wildflowers Chris Hillman Bidin' My Time
When the Bloom is on the Sage Hot Texas Swing Band Devil on My Tail
Springtime Polka (instr) Vitak-Elsnic Band Made in Ohio
Today's episode is "From Old to New" and features old cowboy tunes up to the newest western music and cowboy poetry. Listeners Amy & Barbara co-host the show with DJ Nancy. Here's the playlist:
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This Cowboy Tracks episode, "Assorted Goodies" is a 2018 rebroadcast while the station is closed for remodeling.
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This episode of Cowboy Tracks, "Across the Horizon" shows some of the depth and breadth of western music and poetry. (Rebroadcast show - KDRT stationoffice is undergoing remodeling).
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Spirit of the West Wild West Gang Calgary Stampede
Come Ride With Me Dave Stamey Come Ride With Me
Swing of the Range Rick & the All-Star Ramblers Taryn Noelle Swings
Spot On Perfect Balance (poem) Tom Swearingen Rhyme "em Cowboy!
Cradle of the Wind Andy Wilkinson, Andy Hedges Mining the Motherlode
I Went Ridin' Mikki Daniel Gotta Be a Cowgirl
Time Changes Everything Hot Club of Cowtown What Makes Bob Holler
Pasa Tiempo Kenn Lee The Civilized Side
Montana Cowboy Caleb Klauder, Reeb Willms Innocent Road
307 (Pass Creek Version) Daron Little Support Your Local Cowpuncher
Someplace New "V" the Gypsy Cowbelle The Itinerant Lady
The Wild of the West Mary Kaye (with Emelia Knaphus) Ride a Wide Circle
Fording the Platte (poem) Al Doc Mehl The Great Divide
Morning Star Many Strings and Company Rusty Old Horseshoes
Back in the Saddle MaryLee and Nancy Singin' Sidesaddle
Every Which-A-Way The Quebe Sisters Every Which-A-Way
Tulare Breeze The Thick Crust Doughboys single
Happy Trails (instrumental) Squeek Steele Old West Saloon Piano, Vol.1
Don't Fence Me In Squeek Steele Old West Saloon Piano, Vol.1
Today's Cowboy Tracks episode, "Western Sounds" will surround you with genuine songs and poems of the American West. Here's the playlist:
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Cowboy Ceilidh Rusted Spurs West Arizona Stars
Today's episode of Cowboy Tracks is "Riding Rivers and Sky" Here's the song/poem list:
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It's a "NEW DAY, FRESH START" as Cowboy Tracks returns to live shows on a new day. Cowboy Tracks is now on Wednesdays at 1pm (with a repeat on Fridays at 1pm). Today's show has a little bit of blank air at the start due and a few other technical issues to DJ error (!) but hang in there to hear lots of new music!
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Come on in! The foot-tapping and lively dance music at the Western Swing Party is starting! (Rebroadcast). Stay tuned for new live episodes of Cowboy Tracks starting on a new day: Wednesdays at 1PM, beginning Sept 14th!
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Today's episode is called "Pecos to the Pacific." We'll be travelling musically through the western lands, its culture and its people, from Texas across the various terrains to California. So, get ready for an enjoyable ride. (Rebroadcast). Stay tuned for new, live programs soon!
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Today's episode of Cowboy Tracks is called "Ten Gallon Boogie" and is named after the opening song by Pee Wee King. (Rebroadcast)
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Ten Gallon Boogie Pee Wee King & His Golden Cowboys/Various Artists The Definitive Blues Collection, Vol. 5
Today's Cowboy Tracks show is called "May the Trail Rise Up." It includes 17 top notch western songs and cowboy poetry. (Rebroadcast)
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Today's episode of Cowboy Tracks has songs and poems that celebrate "A Mighty Fine Life" in the West. (Rebroadcast)
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This episode of Cowboy Tracks is titled "Singing My Song to the Sky" and has gorgeous western songs and poems that'll have you gazing up at the moon, sun, clouds and sky overhead. (Rebroadcast)
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Where the Sagebrush Touches the Sky Daron Little Dos Amigos
Enjoy these songs about the western states Gold Rush. (Rebroadcast)
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Thia week's show is chock full of Western music featuring accordions. Great sounds! (Rebroadcast)
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Squeeze Box Polka (instr) Louise Massey & the Westerners Hillbilly Boogie
I Hear You Talkin' The Timejumpers Kid Sister
Full Moon Full of Love Lori Beth Brooke Texas Star
We're Burning Moonlight Riders in the Sky Silver Jubilee
Til There's Not a Cow in Texas Ginny Mac Sweet Sentimental Dreams
Thick and Thin Jim Young Music (Lee Patterson, accordion) Cowboy Sky
Arizona Moon Ranch Romance Blue Blazes
Ten Gallon Boogie Pee Wee King The Deinitive Blues Collection, Volume 5
Rimrock Ride (instr) Sourdough Slim Sourdough Slim Sings Old Time Cowboy Songs
Line Shack Blues 3 Trails West Trails Less Traveled, Again
Old Fashioned Love Rusted Spurs West Ridin' Ropin' and Rounders
My Horse Likes Accordion Music Will Ryan and the Cactus County Cowboys Rhythm Rides the Range
Cumana (instr) Lori Beth Brooke Texas Star
Beneath the Western Sky Okeh Wranglers Beneath the Western Sky
Slow Poke Ginny Mac On the Street Where You Live
The West is as Wild as Ever 3 Trails West Trails Less Traveled, Again
Twilight on the Trail Sourdough Slim Sourdough Slim Best of Vol. 2
Polka Till the Cows Come Home LynnMarie and the Boxhounds Party Dress
Journey to Euskadi (instr) Mercedes Mendive Journey to Euskadi
Today's show is a delightful interview with Dick Baxter, friend and manager of cowgirl singer and actress Dale Evans. Also included are many of Dale's songs performed by Dale and other performers. (Rebroadcast)
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Dale Evans Lynn Anderson Cowgirl
This episode of Cowboy Tracks contains a slate of western tunes about the state of Colorado. (Rebroadcast)
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Today's Cowboy Tracks show is a delightful Western Grab Bag assortment of western tunes. (Rebroadcast)
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This episode of Cowboy Tracks is purt-near guaranteed to be easy on the ears. (Rebroadcast).
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Wagon Trail (instrumental) Linda Martinez Solo Instruments 1, Piano & Guitar
Today's Cowboy Tracks program is a special episode on Bob Wills, known as the King of Western Swing. (Rebroadcast).
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New San Antonio Rose Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys The Essential Bob Wills, 1935-1947
This episode of Cowboy Tracks (Pioneers Head West) includes western songs and cowboy poetry about pioneers in the American West (Rebroadcast from April 2021)
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Imagine sitting on a mountain on the back of a horse, watching the moon rise. Today's "Cowboy Moon" program of western songs may help evoke such images. (Rebroadcast)
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Cowboy Moon Horse Crazy My Horse Knows the Way Home
Today's show is called "West Coast Vibe" and is a bit different from most other Cowboy Tracks shows. We tend to focus on western songs about the cowboy lifestyle but the western music genre is so much broader and encompasses many different aspects of life in the west. Western songs from the West Coast; California, Oregon and Washington, have their own kind of vibe and many unique music styles were born on the West Coast. (Rebroadcast)
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Pipeline The Chantays Teen Beat-Instrumentals of the 60's
Here's an episode about "Riding Down That Trail." (Rebroadcast)
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Ready for summer's approach? Here's a playlist of western songs and poems in anticipation of the season. (Rebroadcast)
On this show you'll hear western music and poetry performed by Canadian artists.
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This episode features western music and cowboy poetry about Canada and performed by Canadian artists.
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O Canada The Central Band of the Canadian Forces Canada Remembers
Today's episode is called "The Western Land We Love" and it's filled with beautiful musical and poetic imagery of the western lands and appreciation of it. Don Edwards, Juni Fisher, Open Range and Tish Hinojosa are just a few of the artists you'll hear today. So, enjoy! (Rebroadcast).
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The Wild Wild West Billy Strange Great Western Themes
The West Juni Fisher Cowgirlography
Sagebrush Symphony Sons of the Pioneers Symphonies of the Sage
The Western Land I Love Open Range & the Stampede Swing Band Swingtime in the Rockies
Where the Sagebrush Touches the Sky Daron Little with Butch Hause Dos Amigos
Prairy Yodel Many Strings and Company A Cattlestrophic Compilation
Prairie Moon Tish Hinojosa Taos to Tennessee
Rubies in the Moon Richard Elloyan, Steve Wade Up for Adoptions
Texas Plains Hot Texas Swing Band Off the Beaten Trail
Working Flint Hills Cowboy Tallgrass Express String Band Clean Curve of Hill Against Sky
Lewis and Clark Rag Jack Gladstone, Rob Quist Odyssey West
Up in Yellowstone Jon Wilson Cody Town
Windmill on the Prairie Yvonne Hollenbeck Rhyming the Range
Take Me Back to the Range Peter Rowan, Don Edwards High Lonesome Cowboy
Montana Cowboy Caleb Klauder, Reeb Willms Innocent Road
You're From Texas The Western Flyers Wild Blue Yonder
Wind That Shakes the Barley (instr( Matthias Gohl, John Kirk, Molly Mason The West (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Guitar Wild West Theme John McEuen The Music of the Wild West
Today's show is filled with songs about the pioneers traveling west in their Conestoga wagons. (Rebroadcast)
Today's episode is a Music Roundup with western swing, western bluesy tunes, traditional cowboy, western reggae beat and even a UFO song. I hope you can stick around and let the music lift you up. (Rebroadcast)
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On today's Cowboy Tracks hear music about the "Towns That Made the West." (Rebroadcast)
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OKC Paul Kelly Old New Mexico
Let's go back, way back to California in 1849 and hear "Gold Rush Songs." (Rebroadcast)
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Let's get back to our roots with this episode of "Traditional Songs of the Cowboy" (rebroadcast).
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The March 4, 2022 episode is titled "The Western Triad" which represents the 3 pillars of western sound: western swing, cowboy music and cowboy poetry. You'll hear it all on today's show! The playlist:
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This episode of Cowboy Tracks has lots of wonderful western swing & cowboy music and cowboy poetry. It's titled "A Mighty Fine Life." Artists on this show are:
Carolyn Martin
John Lowell
Gabrielle Gore
Jim Winters
A.K. Moss
Carlos Washington's Horse Swing Band
Almeda Bradshaw
Stan Lawrence
Mary Kaye
Steve Martin
Kerry Grombacher
Ida Red
Doug Figgs
Hot Texas Swing Band
Floyd Beard
Jim Jones
Western Texas Folk Band
Edgar Meyer, Bela Fleck, Mike Marshall
NEW EPISODE Here's a brand new episode of the Cowboy Tracks show. You'll hear "Swinging, Singing and Reciting" tracks of western music. The playlist is below.
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This episode of Cowboy Tracks celebrates the accordion in western music and is called "Western Accordiorma". (rebroadcast)
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Squeeze Box Polka (instr) Louise Massey & the Westerners Hillbilly Boogie
I Hear You Talkin' The Timejumpers Kid Sister
Full Moon Full of Love Lori Beth Brooke Texas Star
We're Burning Moonlight Riders in the Sky Silver Jubilee
Til There's Not a Cow in Texas Ginny Mac Sweet Sentimental Dreams
Thick and Thin Jim Young Music (Lee Patterson, accordion) Cowboy Sky
Arizona Moon Ranch Romance Blue Blazes
Ten Gallon Boogie Pee Wee King The Deinitive Blues Collection, Volume 5
Rimrock Ride (instr) Sourdough Slim Sourdough Slim Sings Old Time Cowboy Songs
Line Shack Blues 3 Trails West Trails Less Traveled, Again
Old Fashioned Love Rusted Spurs West Ridin' Ropin' and Rounders
My Horse Likes Accordion Music Will Ryan and the Cactus County Cowboys Rhythm Rides the Range
Cumana (instr) Lori Beth Brooke Texas Star
Beneath the Western Sky Okeh Wranglers Beneath the Western Sky
Slow Poke Ginny Mac On the Street Where You Live
The West is as Wild as Ever 3 Trails West Trails Less Traveled, Again
Twilight on the Trail Sourdough Slim Sourdough Slim Best of Vol. 2
Polka Till the Cows Come Home LynnMarie and the Boxhounds Party Dress
Journey to Euskadi (instr) Mercedes Mendive Journey to Euskadi
Enjoy a full episode of western swing music (rebroadcast). Here's the playlist:
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Wrong Day The Farmer & Adele Into the Wide Open Sky
This episode is titled Riding Down That Trail (rebroadcast). The songs, artists and albums on it are:
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Sixteen Tons Shoot Low Sheriff The Mockingbird Sessions
This is one of host Nancy's favorite episodes of Cowboy Tracks. It's Listener Favorites in which listeners call in and request favorite songs.
This rebroadcast episode is titled: "Enjoy the Ride (Again) and here's what you'll hear:
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Today's episode is called "Western Waters" featuring cowboy music and poetry about rivers and rain in the West (rebroadcast).
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Rainfall in Summer Garden (sound effect) Rain Relax Rain Sounds
It's "Cowboy Christmas Time" on the Cowboy Tracks show (rebroadcast). Here's what you'll hear:
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