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A Great Big Western Howdy!

1998 studio album by Riders in the Sky

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ5598775 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Great Big Western Howdy! is a studio recording released by the Western band Riders in the Sky in 1998. It is available as a single CD.

Track listing

"Wah-Hoo!"

"A Hundred and Sixty Acres"

"Cherokee"

"Autumn on the Trail"

"The Ballad of Palindrome/Palindrome: The Scene With Johnny Western"

"Cowboy Camp Meetin'"

"The Arms of My Love"

"Cimarron Moon"

"The Sidekick Jig"

"A Border Romance"

"One More Ride With Marty Stuart"

"He Walks with the Wild and the Lonely"

Personnel

Douglas B. Green (a.k.a. Ranger Doug) – vocals, guitar

Paul Chrisman (a.k.a. Woody Paul) – vocals, fiddle

Fred LaBour (a.k.a. Too Slim) – vocals, bass

Joey Miskulin (a.k.a.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “A Great Big Western Howdy!” as 1998 studio album by Riders in the Sky. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998. The account is most persuasive where Great, Western and Howdy can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1998 studio album by Riders in the Sky. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5598775. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “A Great Big Western Howdy!” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.