“Amazed” is a mellow, often sentimental collection that portrays the cowboy life as hard and lonely but full of integrity. Tyson’s singing is firm and clear--amazingly so for a man who will turn 60 on Sept. 25.

His sympathetic portrayal of cowboy living has little in common with the revisionist vision of last year’s Academy Award-winning Clint Eastwood film, “Unforgiven,” which casts life in the Old West as a Hobbesian competition among the nasty, the brutish and the drunk.

“It was made right in the hills I can see right now as I look out to the West,” Tyson said. “Most of the local cowboys worked on the film. I was busy with my own endeavors, but all of my albums at the local general store were bought. I guess Clint Eastwood’s people bought a lot.”

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