Ranger Doug
Ranger Doug (March 20, 1946(?)–) is an American Western and roots music singer, guitarist, yodeler, and music historian. Born Douglas Bruce Green in Great Lakes, Illinois, he learned guitar during the 1960s folk revival and initially performed bluegrass, working two summer stints as a guitarist for Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. After earning a master's degree in literature from Vanderbilt University, he served as an oral historian and editor for the Journal of Country Music at the Country Music Hall of Fame. In November 1977, he pivoted to cowboy music traditions, co-founding the Western comedy and revival quartet Riders in the Sky who were inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 1982. In 2000, he joined the Grammy-winning Nashville western-swing ensemble The Time Jumpers on rhythm guitar. A noted scholar of the "singing cowboy" era, he authored the definitive historical text Singing in the Saddle (2002) and hosts Ranger Doug's Classic Cowboy Corral on SiriusXM.
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- No. 8 Summer 1996