Lyrics by J Henry, Buck Thomas
Music by J Henry, Buck Thomas
Produced by Mark Moseley
Sound Control Studios Nashville, TN
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This song was written in August of 2001, in a little bar in San Antonio, Texas. I was sitting at the bar at the Bombay Bycycle Club, and there was an old Steely Dan song on the stereo. I think thats funny, because it had nothing to do with what I was writing. Anyways, I started thinking about all the great trail songs like "Little Joe", "Bringing in the Shieves", and "The Ragged Cross" and thought, why do cowboys sing sad songs. I met Buck Thomas the next week, and the first thing I ever sang for him was this little scribbling of a song I had on a bar napkin. That song became Cowboy. Buck is now the piano player in a band called Joker's Wild, out of San Antonio.
The funny thing about that song is that even though I thought I could relate to it in my own life, I really couldn't. 911 soon happened and by the next summer I found myself in the Army, enlisted, and I soon grew to understand the solitude of the wrnagler's life. So as much as this song is about the idea of a cowboy, its also about a soldier, awake at night because he has to be.
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