101 Greatest Western Themes

Country music has been around forever, it seems. But there have been many contradictions in its culture. On the one hand stands Nashville, Music City, with its starmaking machinery and rhinestoned, carefully coiffed performers. Then there’s the Outlaw & Western movement created by artists who consciously moved way from Nashville to ply their trade in alternative musical centres like Austin in Texas – and, in doing so, created an alternative template for both Hollywood film producers and others to follow. Featured here are 101 of the Greatest Western Themes ever.