May 21, 2013
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Riders in the Sky
Western music with love
by James M. Manheim
posted 10/15/2002
The experts disagree about Riders in the Sky. Do they offer "the loving re-creation and perpetuation of a myth," as country-music historian extraordinaire Bill C. Malone opines in his liner notes for the album entitled, with mythic eloquence, Always Drink upstream from the Herd? Or are they, in the words of the All Music Guide's Stephen Thomas
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