Music to Ranch By

     There's a nostalgic movement to romanticize the West and ranching life - rugged men, strong women, family values.   Well, the Ringling 5 has just one thing to say, "Bull."  They sing of today's West - tennis shoe clad men, women who had potential before they got married, and financial credit limits.

The challenges of ranching today can be found not only in the hand Mother Nature deals out but also in the manner bankers, politicians and other outsiders shuffle the deck.Gone is the stoic cowboy on a bronco riding trail in the round-up.

Today's cowboy is mounted on a 250cc Japanese quarterhorse, riding the ridge, looking for the cattle that got out when the bird watchers and berry pickers ran their Land Rover over the electric fence.  The Ringling 5 offer a slice of the 1990's West.  Not a glossed-over nostalgic picture of yesterday, but a slice of reality from today.