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From the windswept plains and dusty cattle trails to the silver screen's golden glow, the legend of the American West has ridden tall in the saddle of song. 100 Songs of the Wild West, a 4CD collection, gathers a century's worth of musical storytelling, ballads of gunfighters and drifters, cowhands and outlaws, heroes and heartbreakers, tracing the myths and melodies that helped define the American frontier in popular imagination. Together, these 100 songs chart the evolution of the American West in sound, from the campfire ballads of the nineteenth century to the polished orchestrations of the twentieth. The heroes and villains of these tales may be long gone, but their stories live on in melody and verse. The clatter of hooves, the whistle of the wind, the creak of saddle leather, all are heard again here, echoing across a century of music. Album Tracks 1. (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance - Gene Pitney 2. Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash 3. Big Iron - Marty Robbins 4. Riders in the Sky - Eddy Arnold 5. The 3 10 to Yuma - Frankie Laine 6. Delia - Burl Ives 7. North Wind - Slim Whitman 8. Gunslinger - Katie Lee 9. Jesse James - the Kingston Trio 10. The Streets of Laredo - Don Gibson 11. The Wayward Wind - Patsy Cline 12. Mooshatanio - Jimmie Driftwood 13. Rovin' Gambler - Hank Thompson 14. The Battle of New Orleans - Rusty Draper 15. Billy the Kid - Tex Ritter 16. Mean, Mean Son of a Gun - Johnny Horton 17. Five Brothers - Marty Robbins 18. The Rebel-Johnny Yuma - Cowboy Copas 19. Wanted Man - Frankie Laine 20. Mule Train - Tennessee Ernie Ford 21. Nine Pound Hammer - Merle Travis 22. Shoot the Buffalo - Jimmie Driftwood 23. Hank and Joe and Me - Johnny Cash 24. Chisholm Trail - Tex Johnson 25. Back in the Saddle Again - Gene Autry 1. Bonanza! - Johnny Cash 2. Death Valley - Glen Campbell 3. Tenn
