Bugg Stories vol. 4

thanks a lot joanne it's a many image based in fact that of a lonely cowboy singing the herd to sleep with the pure clear sound of his western too the nominee cow coaxing as sweetly as riders in the sky the trio composed of ranger doug to slim and woody paul will celebrate the twentieth year together the small plane over two hundred concerts a year with fifteen albums under their belt they're busy guys one rider has found time to try something ranger doug idol of american youth as briefly tried it off on his own to release a solo album this spring it's called songs of this age a career especially don't have hit records a career is so many weird little things it's a county fair here a community concert here is simply show their of song we're here at tv parents they're you know you find a lot of different ways to make it work and you don't have that record and this is

just another way the guys know doug is committed to riders they'd laughingly call him mr fancy pants solo recording artist but he had to convince rounder records the label wanted to make sure a ranger doug so well sounded different than writers that don't turn to a friend and producer join is given the cau poker keane we didn't want to reconcile like here's this guy without those two guys so instead of the harmonies of woody and to slim miscue arranged instrumental harmonies twenty cars trains and trumpet clarinet and according to adam thank you are not as many people who have very distinctive voices mixing very mellow very comforting voice he could put across a song he could reassure us he sings a song about a deal he's the cavs on the hill you really think it singing too

joan nights rioting soccer is whether few cuts to feature ranger doug's coll well they didn't really see things as he was perhaps the world's greatest highway or just goes all over the place dr cutler where this ranger doug aka douglas crane and i start in the music business after a chance encounter with the father of bluegrass my junior year at michigan i came down to bean blossom indiana to see a bill monroe show and bill was without a guitar player that they so i won't hear for the job and he ended up taking the on the road for six weeks to leave on somebody's permanent and that really

i was a boy seventeen bucks a day man i'm here i'm done but still another one to go up the road he came to vanderbilt to pursue a master's degree in literature really as an excuse to get to nashville and to the music business he got a job at the country music foundation and was sent to oklahoma to cover a western festival there he heard and was transformed hiking trails and the harmonies of the sun so high at good thing i ever after all these ballads a bar rooms and broken hearts admits that timber trailing tumbling tumble weeds in sick yes and my whole childhood flash before me once again so i respected country music foundation started at all the stuff on the vast archive images became of the passions and a new life stage to rediscover the stuff learn to do it and learn the songs in the truck piece together their homework or

her own work and are an attempt to say that we can finally get together there was no stopping their revival of cowboy music people were always seen the cowboys as independent self reliant figure riding off answer you know and no mortgages or surly teenage years running through the hills over several and maybe my next job will be a fireman for a job but right now it's ranger journal not have a solo tour after all who wants a rider always a writer songs of this age is on the warner western label for nashville public radio i mean no no