Happy Dox

‘Roll Out, Cowboy’’s Chris Sand is the face of the dying American West. Except for one thing: he raps. The Woody Guthrie protégé looks like a cowboy, but writes songs like LL Cool J. When rap music hit the North Dakota airwaves, he grew up rhyming to the pulse of irrigation pumps. The result? A music fusion of country, hip-hop and folk. The documentary follows Sandman the Rappin’ Cowboy as he tours America during the 2008 Presidential election. He travels from red state to blue and back again. We witness band break-ups, town groupies—even a brief flirtation with commercial truck-driving, when a particularly impoverished Sand needs to make ends meet. This is not the romanticized, Roy Rogers version of the American frontier. This is Sandman. The cowboy who raps.