 Dan Hicks was a big fan of cowboy songs. One of his favorite western pop tunes made it from Tin Pan Alley to Hollywood. Even though it's about the Wild West, here's Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage live on the all-star western radio show. Ragtime Cowboy Joe on American Hicks. He always sings raggy music to the cattle as he swings back and forward in the saddle on a horse.