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portrait of Laci Kaye Booth

Rooted in Country: Laci Kaye Booth Says The Chicks' 'You Were Mine' Showed Her 'What a Country Song Can Do'

The Compton Cowboys, with Randy Savvy riding lead, prepare to leave Gateway Towne Center, for the start of their Peace Ride, culminating at Compton City Hall, on Sunday, June 7, 2020.

The Compton Cowboys are Bringing Cowboy Culture to the Streets of L.A. and Teaching a New Generation of Riders

Country singer Kitty Wells poses for a portrait with an acoustic guitar in 1954 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

'It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels' Paved the Way for Female Country Artists

Tre Hosley, of Compton, Calif., participates in the finals of the bareback riding competition at the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo final on Sunday, June 13, 2021 in Las Vegas, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The Bill Pickett Rodeo Puts the Long Overlooked Legacy of Black Cowboys Center Stage

CIRCA LATE 1960s: Country musician Merle Haggard performs on stage with Bonnie Owens during a late 1960's concert.

Bonnie Owens Fine-Tuned Merle Haggard's Quintessential Sound Beyond the Stage and Studio

press photo of Jackson Dean

Rooted in Country: Jackson Dean on Eric Church's 'Lightning'

The Equal Access Development Program's class of 2022

Country Music's Diversity Problem Goes Beyond the Stage. This Program Seeks a Solution

Vintage-slinging singer-songwriters Molly Leary, Nikki Lane and Tanya Montana Coe

3 Vintage-Slinging Country Artists on Shopping on the Road, Dressing Celebrity Clients and the Power of Cowgirl Boots

Cristina Vane poses in front of house

Rooted in Country: Cristina Vane on Hank Williams' 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry'

US frontierswoman Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Burk, c 1852 - 1903) celebrated for her bravery and her skill in riding and shooting during the gold rush days in Dakota./ James Butler Hickok, known as "Wild Bill" Hickok (1837-1876), folk character of the American Old West. Ca. 1873.

Were Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok Really in Love?

press photo of 49 Winchester by Joshua Black Wilkins

Rooted in Country: 49 Winchester's Isaac Gibson on Willie Nelson's 'Whiskey River'

Nat Love, African American cowboy who claimed to have won the name of Deadwood Dick in South Dakota, 1876, by virtue of his roping talent. Full length photo with lariat and saddle. From his privately published autobiographyy (1907)

Nat Love: The Real Old West Cowboy Featured in 'The Harder They Fall'

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