When you are reading my friend Charlie LeSueur's Book, I hope you will look back fondly on those great days when our Cowboy Heroes were everything to us. They formed our thoughts, our lives, and our dreams with their screen images. The horses with the silver saddles, the colorful clothes, the guns and gun belts, the guitars and songs, and that certain look they gave you from the screen that said to you, "Everything's going to be alright." We may never be able to totally recreate those days again on T.V. or the Big Screen, but those of us who are still out there doing shows and festivals and still making records, are going to give it the old college try! I was the luckiest guy in the world to get paid for doing what I probably would of done for free had it not worked out the way it did. As my friend Ranger Doug of "Riders in the Sky" fame always says, Its the Cowboy Way!"
Johnny Western