''Proper Cowboy'' is the fourth

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released by

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, released in July 2012. ''Proper Cowboy'' marks the band's first time collaboration with

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producers The Rondo Brothers (

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), as well as their second release under the Ninth Street Opus record label. The union has resulted in a new spin on the familiar sound that has been referred to as a "futuristic Spaghetti-Western soundtrack" that features a cover of 1972

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song, " A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done". Additionally, "Bulletproof Shine" marks a collaboration with

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(leader of

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), who adds his vocals and

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to the track. Julia R. DeStefano of ''Performer Magazine'' says of the album that it "easily places them in the 'best kept secret-turned next big thing' category." Fun Fun Fun Media said, "Diego’s Umbrella is like

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meets

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Track listing

All song written, performed and arranged by

Personnel

* Tyson Maulhardt -

Electric Guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...

Vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

* Vaughn Lindstrom - Acoustic Guitar,

* Ben Leon -

Percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

* Jason Kleinberg -

Violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

, Accordion * Jake Wood - Drums ;Additional personnel *

Theremin The theremin (; originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist). It is named afte ...

, Vox * Brahm Sheray - Bass (Richardson, Bulletproof Shine, Amsterdam, Big Star) * Bob Menacho - Bass (Tightrope, Moneymaker) * Kevin Blair - Bass (Downtown, Thrash) * Jim Greer -

Piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, Synthesizer, Accordion, Strings, Drum * Brandon Arnovick - Beats * Olga Kapustina - Asst. Engineering (Moneymaker), Additional Strings (Downtown) ;Additional singers * Mike Choinard * Katie Bishop * Marta Skeen * Larry May * Alisa Saario * Noel Garcia * Christine Kemp * Estee Schwartz * Matthew Smith * Olga Kapustina

Production

* Produced and Mixed by The Rondo Brothers * Engineered by Calvin Turnbull and The Rondo Brothers * Mastered by The Rondo Brothers * Artwork by Kelsey Brookes * Art Photography by Roy Porello

References

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