“Twylla was the one who got me into recording Western music again,” Tyson wrote in his memoir, The Long Trail, My Life in the West.

“She believed in my songs when no one else did, and in 1983 I put out Old Corrals and Sagebrush for Columbia, singing about horses, Ponderosa pines and the Old Double Diamond Ranch in Wyoming.”

“My friend Jay Dusard shot the cover photograph—a fine black-and-white picture of me sitting on Smoky, my circle horse, in front of the Diamond V weigh scales,” Tyson continues “Old Corrals was a cowboy record through and through, recorded in the basement of my ranch house.”

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