This from All Music Guide:
Gene Autry was more than a musician. His music, coupled with his careers in movies and on radio and television, made him a part of the mythos that has made up the American identity for the past hundred years  John Wayne with a little bit of Sam Houston and Davy Crockett all rolled into one.
The song I remember, "Back in the Saddle Again."
It is often said, "you had to of been there." He was on the radio before Bill Haley and the Comets or Elvis Presley. (And hey, I'm only in my 50's).
Gene Autry was more than a musician. His music, coupled with his careers in movies and on radio and television, made him a part of the mythos that has made up the American identity for the past hundred years  John Wayne with a little bit of Sam Houston and Davy Crockett all rolled into one.
The song I remember, "Back in the Saddle Again."
It is often said, "you had to of been there." He was on the radio before Bill Haley and the Comets or Elvis Presley. (And hey, I'm only in my 50's).