
For more than forty years, Riders In The Sky have been keepers of the flame passed on by the Sons of the Pioneers, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, reviving and revitalizing Western music. And while remaining true to the integrity of the genre, they have themselves become modern-day icons by branding it with their own legendary wacky humor and way-out Western wit, and all along encouraging buckaroos and buckarettes to live life “The Cowboy Way!”
Riders In The Sky are stars of the stage, screen, the Grand Ole Opry, National Public Radio, Sirius/XM Satellite Radio, Saturday morning TV, and are the only exclusively Western artist to have won a Grammy Award. They truly are “America’s Favorite Cowboys!
Sons of the Pioneers are synonymous with the ultimate in Cowboy music. For decades the premier western singing group has musically painted unforgettable images and stories of horses, cattle, cowboys, “night herds”, tall timber, cool water, canyons and prairies. Their original songs like “Tumbling Tumbleweeds”, “Cool Water” and “Ghost Riders in the Sky” are classics forever entwined into the lore and mystique of the American West. Both “Tumbleweeds” and “Cool Water” have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
The current group’s configuration John Fullerton, Ken Lattimore, Chuck Ervin, Trent Prewitt, and Trustin Baker is part of a continuous and uninterrupted 93 year existence in which they have accumulated more coveted honors and awards than anyone in Western Music. The group has been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Western Music Association Hall of Fame, and the National Cowboy Hall of Fame among others. The Smithsonian Institute named them as “National Treasures.” True West magazine named them the Best of the West in 2015 and again in 2016.