Tex Ritter was a true multimedia celebrity, a star of stage, screen, records and radio. And it is on radio that the recordings on this album came to life.

The recordings on this album have a unique origin. “Tex recorded these tracks for broadcast on the radio and these versions of the songs were never commercially released,” noted Jim Farrell who produced Tex Ritter: The Songs of the West. Farrell took on the project of producing this collection after Country Rewind Records president Thomas Gramuglia rescued the ‘lost’ master tapes that required expert forensic recovery to bring them to twenty-first century audio quality. 

The Songs of the West is part of the ongoing Western Heritage Series that includes Sons of the Pioneers: The Lost Masters, Rex Allen – America’s Last Singing Cowboy and Rex Allen Jr. – Then and Now.