We are now facing one of those rarities that, from time to time, come into our hands This time it is an album about the music of the golden age of legendary American far west, with the particularity it is performed by Dom Flemons, a black man who fell in love with white traditional music like country and western, hillbilly, honky-tonk, bluegrass or old time music With the abolition of slavery many black people moved to the far west, where they started to work as farmers, ranchers or cowboys According to the book The Black Cowboys more than five thousand black people became real cowboys or worked in the railway that would communicate east to west America and, in this way, they contributed to change the vision of society those western people had Alan Lomax gathered a variety of songs performed by those coloured men who integrated themselves into the cultural background of traditional music coming from white people who settled in legendary far west coming from European continent Now Dom Flemons has rescued eighteen traditional songs originally sung by those coloured cowboys to let us know an important part of the white music identity of those years In this way the album becomes an excellent example of the footprint left by thousands of Afroamerican cowboys who helped to build up an important part of American musical history