Singing in the Saddle

Ranger Doug Green’s immensely popular history of Western Music!

A singing cowboy himself, Douglas B.Green is uniquely suited to writethe story of the singing cowboy, fromthe early days of vaudeville and radio,through the heyday of movie westernsbefore World War II, to the currentrevival. He provides rich and carefulanalysis of the studio system that madeGene Autry and Roy Rogers famous,and he documents the role thatcountry music and regional televisionstations played in carrying on thesinging cowboy tradition after the war.Green’s story reveals how the imageryof the singing cowboy has becomesuch a potent force that even nowcountry musicians don cowboy hats tosymbolically take part in the legend.