''Call You Cowboy'' is an American Western album released by Brenn Hill in 2001. The album was nominated as Traditional Western Album of the Year by the

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"Call You Cowboy"

The title track was chosen by the Members of the

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as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. In the song, the singer talks to another person whose "father calls you a drifter, but I call you cowboy", then describes what are, to him, the attributes of a "cowboy" — intricacy, complexity, innovation, survivability, and unwillingness to conform.

Track listing

Personnel

* Scotty Burns - violin * Gary Carlson - electric bass * Duke Davis - bass guitar *

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- mandolin * Bruce Innes - acoustic guitar * Rich O'Brien - guitars * Andy Poling - percussion * Jeffery Rew - upright bass * Kenny Sears - dobro * Wayne 'Bullhide' Shrubsall - banjo * Ryan Shupe - mandolin * Russell Terrell - background vocals * Paul Todd - harmonica * Byron Walcher - pedal steel guitar * Brenn Hill - vocals, background vocals

References

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