Western music has gone in and out of style. When it was in style during the era of the TV westerns in the late Fifties and early Sixties, nearly every country artist did a western ballad or two. Some of Nashville's dimestore cowboys could pull it off; some couldn't. Now Bear Family gathers twenty western ballads by those who could. You don't need to know which end of a horse gets up first to appreciate what we've got here.