Country Westerns Country Westerns (2020)

"In songs about love, death, demons and our collective souls, NOCONA’s music will haunt you. This one has an ease about it, but trust us, you’ll want to check out the entire album to get a true feel for their range." – Americana Highways

Westerns may extend back to the time of America's colonial period or forward to the themes and elements of traditional classic westerns appeared.

Calexico, collectif de Tucson formé autour de Joey Burns et John Convertino, se forge une identité éclectique en explorant la culture western, les musiques de westerns spaghetti d'Ennio Morricone, le jazz, la country et la musique surf des années 50 et 60. A la suite d'un split avec Bill Elm (Friends of Dean Martinez) en 1996, le duo entame des sessions d'enregistrement avec quelques figures importantes de la scène Americana et sort Spoke, son premier album, la même année sur le label allemand Haus Musik. Suite à une signature sur Quarterstick/Touch and Go, Calexico sort The Black Light en 1998 puis The Hot Rail en 2000.

Julie London (née Peck; September 26, 1926 – October 18, 2000) was an American singer and actress whose career spanned more than 40 years. A torch singer noted for her sultry, languid contralto vocals, London recorded over thirty albums of pop and jazz standards between 1955 and 1969.

100 Cowboys is a playful and perceptive pop-rock album about getting through a bad time. It takes a title form Vail's infatuation with campy Spaghetti Westerns and a throwback to his time recording country acts at his former Nashville studio. "I like how like campy old cowboy movies are and in a lot of ways I think that's what being a musician is like, " says Vail. "You can be your own persona. A lot of these songs are super personal to me but dressing them up as pop and rock songs is a lot of fun. It's how I can share this bried period of my life that was really sad."

100 Cowboys is a playful and perceptive pop-rock album about getting through a bad time. It takes a title form Vail's infatuation with campy Spaghetti Westerns and a throwback to his time recording country acts at his former Nashville studio. "I like how like campy old cowboy movies are and in a lot of ways I think that's what being a musician is like, " says Vail. "You can be your own persona. A lot of these songs are super personal to me but dressing them up as pop and rock songs is a lot of fun. It's how I can share this bried period of my life that was really sad."

In 1971, during a time of massive transition in Hollywood and of social upheaval in America at large, director Don Siegel and actor Clint Eastwood created one of the most memorable figures in all of action cinema, a bad-tempered San Francisco policeman "Dirty" Harry Callahan, not averse to bending the rules to get his man. The maniacal 'Scorpio Killer' is on the loose and Callahan disregards procedure in his efforts to track him down, using his trusty Magnum .44 to dispense his own brand of justice.