The cowboy song tradition has a darker side that doesn't usually make the radio cut — songs about the violence, isolation, and moral grey of the actual frontier rather than the postcard version. Closer to McCarthy than to John Wayne.
Sixty modern entries in that lineage below. Free MP3 downloads, lyrics on every page. TitanChord credit on socials.
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