And that let me know that I wasn't the only cowboy that like rap music as well as country music.

NPR: Cowboy Troy and 'Hick-Hop'

Less-frequent tours by blue-chip artists like the Rolling Stones, Madonna and U2 may grab more headlines, but their numbers are dwarfed by those of Mr. Chesney, a 45-year-old country rocker whose onstage uniform is a cowboy hat with the brim pulled low and a sleeveless T-shirt that shows off chiseled biceps.

WSJ: Kenny Chesney: King of the Road

"Townes was different, that's for sure he wasn't Nashville or Memphis, which back then were the commercial sounds, " said "Cowboy" Jack Clement, his longtime record producer.

WSJ: Townes Van Zandt, Unadorned

Washington had warmed up, the swift storm of the previous day had passed, the sky was overcast but the air wasn't painful in a wind-chill way, and the capital was full of men in cowboy hats and women in long furs.

WSJ: Way Too Much God

Hurdle wouldn't reveal what it was that made West grin: "That's between me and the Cowboy, " he said with a smile of his own.

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