In Concert: Riders in the Sky
Author: Wyatt Sanderman Day | Published: April 7th, 2010
In the Holiday Spirit the Cowboy Way ...
The worn wooden stage at the head of the Turnage Theater was aglitter and aglow with the bright, but tacky Christmas lights adorning some of the many stage props of the night’s entertainment, Riders in the Sky. The fabricated cactus that stood behind Joey the Cowpolka King and Too Slim was strung with the glittering lights, the synthesized campfire glow had its place in front of the singing foursome, with a large Woody action figure (from the Disney animated film Toy Story) aglow in the synthetic light of the fabricated campfire, and stage right, there was the boney skull of a steer atop a box named Too Jaws.
Riders in the Sky, from left to right: Joey the Cowpolka King, Woody Paul, Ranger Doug and Too Slim: Above. Ranger Doug and Too Slim harmonizing a wonderful cowboy melody: Below.
The band members were decked in their finest holiday attire; even Too Slim's standup bass had a Santa's cap atop its tuning fret. And that was their mission that night - To bring Christmas to the people of eastern North Carolina - "The Cowboy Way." Ranger Doug, from behind his Stromberg Jazz Guitar, bantered, "We've played over 5000 live performances, played the Grand Ole Opry nearly 700 times, won two Grammys, and we even had Saturday morning TV show, and now, at the apex of our illustrious careers, and we have finally made it to the top - we get to play the Turnage for all you fine folks. Now, we may could have made it here sooner, and to accomplish this, there may have been a easier way. But it wouldn't have been the cowboy way."
Ranger Doug explaining to Woody Paul and we, the audience, what it means to live life The Cowboy Way: Above. One of the last of the great singing cowboys - Woody Paul: Below.
And that was the show that night. Ranger Doug (Douglas Green), Woody Paul (Woodrow Paul Chrisman), Too Slim (Fred LaBour) and Joey the Cowpolka King (Joey Miskulin): "Bringing Good Beef to Hungry People!" And the beef, in fine form of some very good authentic cowboy music, was very good.
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The worn wooden stage at the head of the Turnage Theater was aglitter and aglow with the bright, but tacky Christmas lights adorning some of the many stage props of the night’s entertainment, Riders in the Sky. The fabricated cactus that stood behind Joey the Cowpolka King and Too Slim was strung with the glittering lights, the synthesized campfire glow had its place in front of the singing foursome, with a large Woody action figure (from the Disney animated film Toy Story) aglow in the synthetic light of the fabricated campfire, and stage right, there was the boney skull of a steer atop a box named Too Jaws.
Riders in the Sky, from left to right: Joey the Cowpolka King, Woody Paul, Ranger Doug and Too Slim: Above. Ranger Doug and Too Slim harmonizing a wonderful cowboy melody: Below.
The band members were decked in their finest holiday attire; even Too Slim's standup bass had a Santa's cap atop its tuning fret. And that was their mission that night - To bring Christmas to the people of eastern North Carolina - "The Cowboy Way." Ranger Doug, from behind his Stromberg Jazz Guitar, bantered, "We've played over 5000 live performances, played the Grand Ole Opry nearly 700 times, won two Grammys, and we even had Saturday morning TV show, and now, at the apex of our illustrious careers, and we have finally made it to the top - we get to play the Turnage for all you fine folks. Now, we may could have made it here sooner, and to accomplish this, there may have been a easier way. But it wouldn't have been the cowboy way."
Ranger Doug explaining to Woody Paul and we, the audience, what it means to live life The Cowboy Way: Above. One of the last of the great singing cowboys - Woody Paul: Below.
And that was the show that night. Ranger Doug (Douglas Green), Woody Paul (Woodrow Paul Chrisman), Too Slim (Fred LaBour) and Joey the Cowpolka King (Joey Miskulin): "Bringing Good Beef to Hungry People!" And the beef, in fine form of some very good authentic cowboy music, was very good.
This article provided courtesy of our sister site: Better Angels Now.
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