It's the start of a new millennium (well, not really, but popular sentiment has made it so), and Country Music may be at a cross roads. There's been a lot of press about the pop influence on country and whether it's good or bad. I don't know if it's a good or bad influence; I just know I have my taste in music and other people can, and should, have a right to their's. What I hope doesn't happen is that radio doesn't choose one course over the other. It just seems like a lot of what get's played over commercial country radio sounds a lot like Barney (the dinosaur, not Fife) could be singing it. Maybe I'm just getting too old.
The Arbuckle Boys is a quartet founded in 1994 and based in Texas hill country. The group consists of Jim Chilcote (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), W. B. Fowler (vocals and fiddle), Skip Maxfeldt (vocals and lead guitar), and Jesse Stokes (vocals and washtub bass). They have appeared on radio and television and have an "active" schedule of live appearances throughout south Texas. Their Tour Schedule page is under construction.
The Music page has 30-40 second RealAudio clips from the Arbuckle Boys' album, "Songs of the Cowboys." I had some problems getting the clips to play, and had to resort to copying the link location and pasting it into the URL of the RealAudio player. The songs represent a nice balance between original songs and classic cowboy tunes. They're well sung, but the sound quality of the clips could be better. The album can be ordered through the web site using a secure server along with other merchandise, such as a tee shirt, coffe mugs, and the Arbuckle Boy's own brand of coffee, in either regular or decaf.
The group has also written an original musical describing a 2500 mile cattle drive by twelve cowboys in 1871, hence the name, "Traildrive 1871." It features 21 songs that depicts life on the Chisholm Trail.
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