Ask the Author: J.R. Sanders
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J.R. Sanders
For Stardust Trail: I wanted to write a traditional detective novel but give it a twist. One day I was listening to the music of Dave Stamey, one of the best Western singers/songwriters out there today. In the liner notes for one of his CDs he mentions the Gower Gulch cowboys of old Hollywood, very much a thing in the 1930s. That got me to thinking about setting my fictional private eye story in the world of those B-Western bit players, many of whom had been actual working cowboys and rodeo riders. A song called Cowboy Moon on that same CD has a particularly B-Western sound, sort of Dave’s tribute to those Gene Autry/Roy Rogers singing cowboy pictures. I liked it so much I used the title for a song the Cady sisters perform in Stardust Trail’s eponymous Republic film. Sort of my tribute to Dave’s tribute.
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