Dean and producer Kevin Skrla maintain the Urban Cowboy vibes of Gibbs’ original, but add a more rock & roll flair to the delivery and instrumentation. Those weeping country notes, however, remain.

There’s a scene in “Urban Cowboy” where a black-and-blue Debra ... Hector Saldaña is a longtime music journalist and curator of the Texas Music Collection at The Wittliff Collections ...