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ranching, riding, and roping..."
Associate Editor Kyle Partain,
Western Horseman
"Prepare for a trip through time. There
are classics and pieces written about times long gone. Also
included are glimpses into the lives of modern cow hands,
ranchers, ranch wives, farriers, and poets...Close your eyes and be carried along with an ebb and flow of
emotions and imagery. Wrapped within the subject matter and
interpretations there’s sincerity, intimacy, good-natured
joshing, wisdom, respect, hogwash, poignancy, and
spirituality."
Jeri Dobrowski,
Cowboy Jam Session
"...It is well produced, well presented, and well worth listening to.
You'll want this recording (along with Volume One from last year) in
your collection."
Cowboy Magazine
"...a treasury in every sense of that word..."
Rick Huff, The Western Way
"Cowboypoetry.com has
done it again. Volume 2 of The BAR-D Roundup continues to
celebrate life in the west with all the picturesque phrasing and
expressions delivered as only real, live, hard-working cowboys can.
Highlighted by Charles Badger Clark, Jr. reciting his own "Ridin',"
every cut on this album is a revealing look into true cowboy
living. You'll want to listen to this one over and over."
Marvin O'Dell, Around the Campfire
"The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two
is a ride well worth the taking. Feel a saddle gently rock between
your legs, smell pine trees or the sagebrush in bloom, taste strong
black coffee and trail dust, and see
— truly
see
— the
West come to life in your mind's eye."
Mick
Vernon,
Monterey
Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival Director and
Radio Ranch
host
"On a scale of 1 to 10, The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two rates
an 11."
Sam Jackson
, producer of the
National Cowboy
Poetry Rodeo
The BAR-D
Roundup: Volume Two
(2007) is a
compilation of contemporary recordings of some of today's best classic
and contemporary cowboy poetry.
This second annual CD includes
Badger Clark's vintage recording of his
first published poem, "Ridin'"; recent poems considered modern classics,
recited by their authors, including "The Breaker in the Pen" by
Joel
Nelson and "The Horse Trade" by the late
Sunny
Hancock; noted reciters
Randy Rieman and
Jerry
"Brooksie" Brooks performing classic poems by
Bruce Kiskaddon
and
Katherine Fall Pettey;
Gail I. Gardner’s famous “The Sierry
Petes” recited by the late J. B. Allen, and “Hail and Farewell,”
by Delia Gist Gardner, delivered by Gail Steiger, songwriter, filmmaker,
rancher, and the Gardners’ grandson; and a second selection of poetry
from “Grass,” cowboy poetry’s masterwork by the late
Buck
Ramsey, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, recognized as
the modern spiritual leader of the genre.
There are many additional tracks (27 total), most from poets who
frequently delight audiences from contemporary gathering stages,
including: Doris
Daley, Elizabeth
Ebert, Paul Zarzyski
(reciting S.
Omar Barker's "Hosses vs. Horses"),
Jay Snider, Smoke
Wade, Jo Lynne Kirkwood,
Peggy
Godfrey, Ken
Cook, Darrell
Arnold, Pat Richardson,
DW
Groethe, Don
Kennington, Kent
Rollins, Virginia
Bennett, Janice
Gilbertson, Rod Nichols,
Diane
Tribitt, Yvonne
Hollenbeck, and Jim Thompson
(reciting
Arthur Chapman 's
classic, "Out Where the West Begins").
The BAR-D
Roundup: Volume Two
CD includes a radio Public Service (PSA)
Announcement by poet, humorist, and radio host
Andy
Nelson (listen below). Andy Nelson engineered
and co-produced both the 2006 and 2007 editions of The BAR-D Roundup.
See detailed track descriptions
with references in the on-line liner notes here.
The stunning cover for 2007 is a photo of
poet Virginia Bennett's father-in-law, Orville Bennett, Texas cowboy,
1920. Inside, there's a photo of South Dakota rancher and poet Ken Cook
and his sons.
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They're Saying ...
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references
(separate page)
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What They're
Saying about The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two (2007)
"Prepare for a trip through time. There
are classics and pieces written about times long gone. Also
included are glimpses into the lives of modern cow hands,
ranchers, ranch wives, farriers, and poets...Close your eyes and be carried along with an ebb and flow of
emotions and imagery. Wrapped within the subject matter and
interpretations there’s sincerity, intimacy, good-natured
joshing, wisdom, respect, hogwash, poignancy, and
spirituality."
Jeri Dobrowski,
Cowboy Jam Session
"...something for everyone who appreciates tales of
ranching, riding, and roping..."
Associate Editor Kyle Partain,
Western Horseman
"...a treasury in every sense of that word..."
Rick Huff, The Western Way
"Cowboypoetry.com has
done it again. Volume 2 of The Bar D Roundup continues to
celebrate life in the west with all the picturesque phrasing and
expressions delivered as only real, live, hard-working cowboys can.
Highlighted by Charles Badger Clark, Jr. reciting his own "Ridin',"
every cut on this album is a revealing look into true cowboy
living. You'll want to listen to this one over and over."
Marvin O'Dell, Around the Campfire
"The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two is a ride well worth the taking.
Feel a saddle gently rock between your legs, smell pine trees or the
sagebrush in bloom, taste strong black coffee and trail dust, and
see — truly
see — the
West come to life in your mind's eye."
Mick
Vernon, Monterey Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival Director
and
Radio Ranch host
"On a scale of 1 to 10, The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two
rates an 11."
Sam Jackson
,
producer of the
National Cowboy Poetry Rodeo
Comments about The BAR-D Roundup
(2006)
"For those of us who love cowboy poetry, this is perhaps the best anthology we've
yet heard." Cowboy
Magazine
"The BAR-D Roundup
provides a fine collection of classic and contemporary poetry
offerings that'll please any fan of the genre."
Western
Horseman
"...one not to miss."
O.
J. Sikes, host of Western Music Time
"I know of no
better compilation of cowboy poetry anywhere."
Marvin O'Dell, Around
the Campfire
"This is a
keeper!"
Toe
Tappin' Tommy Tucker, The Western Heritage Show
"What a fine
compilation of cowboy poetry; makes you want to listen 'just one
more time'!"
Waynetta Ausmus,
Waynetta's
Western Roundup
"...a super
compilation of contemporary recordings of some of today's best
classic and contemporary cowboy poetry...If you like cowboy poetry,
I'd say this is a must-have CD."
Mark
McMillan, British Columbia Cowboy Heritage Society
Read more about The
BAR-D Roundup (2006)
here.
About The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two (2007)
The BAR-D
Roundup: Volume Two
(2007) is a
compilation of outstanding contemporary recordings of some of today's best classic
and contemporary cowboy poetry.
This second CD includes South
Dakota Poet Laureate Badger Clark's vintage recording of his
first published poem, "Ridin'." The poem is in his 1915 book, Sun
and Saddle Leather, a volume that has never gone out of print.
Two more recent poems,
both considered modern classics,
are recited by their authors. Joel
Nelson recites "The Breaker in the Pen,"
from his
Grammy-nominated CD of
the same name, said to have "raised the bar for
cowboy poetry for 1000 years." The late
Sunny
Hancock's poem, "The Horse Trade"
is included.
Two classics are in the
hands of the the top practitioners of their craft: Master reciter
Randy Rieman
renders a flawless performance of
Bruce Kiskaddon's "When They've Finished Shipping Cattle in the Fall."
Noted reciter Jerry
"Brooksie" Brooks delivers the evocative "Mornin' on the
Desert," a poem long attributed to "Anonymous" (the rightful author was
uncovered in research for this CD:
Katherine Fall Pettey).
Gail I. Gardner’s peerless
classic, “The Sierry
Petes” is recited by the late J. B. Allen. Gardner's wife, Delia Gist Gardner,
also wrote poetry—a
fact discovered after her death. Her moving poem, “Hail and Farewell,”
is
delivered in a singular performance by
Gail Steiger, songwriter, filmmaker,
rancher, and the Gardners’ grandson.
The BAR-D
Roundup: Volume Two
includes the first chapter of Grass, cowboy poetry’s masterwork by the late
Buck
Ramsey, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, recognized as
the modern spiritual leader of the genre. (The
2006 edition
of The BAR-D Roundup includes the well-known and widely known Prologue to
Grass, "Anthem," a
poem that has been called "the
finest contemporary piece of writing in this tradition.")
Popular Canadian poet
Doris
Daley's poem, "A Letter to Mr. Russell," addresses the famous cowboy
artist, bringing him up to date on current parlance in her own
artistic words that weave in the titles of some of his best-known
paintings.
Baxter Black has praised
Elizabeth
Ebert's extraordinary poem, "He Talked About Montana," saying "If
her poems were mountains and the verses peaks, this would be the eagle
soaring over all."
Paul Zarzyski,
the self-described "Polish-hobo-rodeo-poet,"
recites
S.
Omar Barker's "Hosses vs. Horses," a recording from
the award-winning Spurrin' the Words,
a Cowboy Poetry Project from the
Montana 4-H Center for Youth Development.
Oklahoma rancher and
gathering audience favorite Jay Snider
combines talent and wisdom in his tale of "Tyrone and Tyree."
Smoke
Wade draws on his
experience in the days of trailing large herds of cattle out of the
Hells Canyon of the Snake River, times that are "gone now, along with
the cattle ranches in Hell's Canyon," in his poem, "Trailing the
Herd."
Native Utahn
Jo Lynne Kirkwood explores the
labor and rewards of ranching life in her lyrical, four-part poem,
"A Cowboy Season."
Colorado's
Peggy
Godfrey delivers ranching reality in "A Country Graft," a poem from
a recent film about her life,
Cowboy Poetry: A Woman Ranching the Rockies.
South Dakota rancher
Ken
Cook honors his late grandfather and the generations of cowboys in his
family, with his poem, "Grandpa."
Tracks by
Darrell
Arnold, Pat Richardson, and
DW
Groethe present the lighter side of today's cowboy poetry scene. Darrell
Arnold pokes fun with "Cowboy Poultry Gatherin'"; the irrepressible
Pat Richardson observes a cowboy poet from his dog's point of view;
and quirly DW Groethe's "A Bunny Poem" is a tale of road-weary cowboy
poets.
Beloved veteran poet and
farrier Don
Kennington, recites one of his most-requested poems, "The Last Nail"
and rancher, poet, humorist, and famous chuckwagon cook
Kent
Rollins pays respects to another farrier, in his poem,
"Horseshoes and Heaven."
Poems by friends and
horsewomen Virginia
Bennett and Janice
Gilbertson complement each other: Virginia Bennett's wistful and
reflective "As You Ride," sets the scene for Janice Gilbertson's
life-affirming poem about horses and friendship, "Night Time's
Promise."
Rod Nichols,
Diane
Tribitt, and Yvonne
Hollenbeck speak to the spirit. Texan Rod Nichols' poem, "Talent," is
about sometimes-hidden virtues, and a hope to be blessed with "just
half of such talent to shine as a light before men." In Minnesota
rancher Diane Tribitt's poem, "Prayer Under the Northern Lights," a
widow rancher's calls on her faith. Lauded South
Dakota poet Yvonne
Hollenbeck speaks of a reverence that is a part of a way of life in
"Nature's Church," with a touch of Jean Prescott's "In the Garden"
echoing behind the meaningful poem.
Popular broadcaster,
poetry lover and booster, and seasoned reciter
Jim Thompson
creates a perfect ending, with a
flourish, with the recitation of
Arthur Chapman 's
classic, "Out Where the West Begins." In its day, the poem
was known throughout
America. It hung in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, was
quoted in Congress, used as Western governors' campaign material, was
found on cards and postcards, printed in magazines and advertisements,
and turned into a popular song.
The BAR-D
Roundup: Volume Two
CD includes a radio Public
Service (PSA) Announcement by poet, humorist, and radio host
Andy
Nelson (listen below). Andy Nelson engineered
and co-produced both the 2006 and 2007 editions of The BAR-D
Roundup.
The 2007 CD's stunning cover is a photo of
poet Virginia Bennett's father-in-law, Orville Bennett, Texas cowboy,
1920. Inside, there's a photo of South Dakota rancher and poet Ken Cook
and his sons.
Joe Baker of the
Backforty Bunkhouse distributed the CD to his extensive network of
western radio stations.
Poems and permissions were generously donated
by poets, musicians, families, publishers, and filmmakers.
The BAR-D Roundup
CDs are produced by the Center for Western and
Cowboy Poetry, made possible by generous funding support from
sustaining
donors. It is dedicated to all those
who carry on the ranching tradition.
Track list for
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two (2007)
1.
Charles Badger Clark, Jr., "Ridin"
1:38
2. Randy Rieman, "When They've Finished Shipping Cattle in the Fall"
(Bruce Kiskaddon) 5:07
3. Doris Daley, "A Letter to Mr. Russell"
2:05
4. Joel Nelson, "The Breaker in the Pen"
5:37
5. Sunny Hancock, "The Horse Trade"
4:54
6. Paul Zarzyski, "Horses vs. Hosses" (S. Omar Barker)
2:04
7. Jay Snider, "Tyrone and Tyree"
1:59
8. Elizabeth Ebert, "He Talked About Montana"
3:00
9. Smoke Wade, "Trailing the Herd"
1:16
10. Jo Lynne Kirkwood, "A Cowboy Season"
5:20
11. Peggy Godfrey, "Country Graft"
1:33
12. Ken Cook, "Grandpa" 1:32
13. Darrell Arnold, "Cowboy Poultry Gatherin"
1:30
14. Pat Richardson, "Shep's Poetry"
2:48
15. DW Groethe, "The Bunny Poem"
1:59
16. J.B. Allen, "The Sierry Petes" (Gail I. Gardner)
2:56
17. Don Kennington, "The Last Nail"
3:01
18. Kent Rollins, "Horseshoes and Heaven"
2:55
19. Buck Ramsey, "The Story: One"
5:04
20. Jerry "Brooksie" Brooks, "Morning on the Desert" (Katherine Fall
Pettey) 2:09
21. Gail Steiger, "Hail and Farewell" (Delia Gist Gardner)
2:11
22. Virginia Bennett, "As You Ride"
1:27
23. Janice Gilbertson, "Night Time's Promise"
:59
24. Rod Nichols, "Talent"
1:49
25. Diane Tribitt, "Prayer Under the Northern Lights"
2:30
26. Yvonne Hollenbeck, "Nature's Church"
1:25
27. Jim Thompson, "Out Where the West Begins" (Arthur Chapman)
:55
28. Andy Nelson, Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry (PSA)
:30
All rights are reserved by
the artists and owners of the included tracks.
The BAR-D Roundup was
produced by the Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry, with generous funding
support from sustaining donors.
Acknowledgments: Special thanks to
Andy
Nelson,
engineer and co-producer with Margo Metegrano; to designer Red
Braznell; and to Tom Morgan,
Jim Thompson, Francie
Ganje, Joe
Baker, Marvin O'Dell, Pete and
Virginia
Bennett,
Ken
Cook, and
Alf Bilton;
and to all the poets, reciters, musicians, families, publishers, and filmmakers for their
kind permissions.
Liner notes: Detailed track descriptions
with references
(separate page)
Listen to
the Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry Public Service Announcement
The BAR-D
Roundup: Volume Two
CD includes a radio Public
Service (PSA) Announcement by poet, humorist, and radio host
Andy
Nelson, who engineered and co-produced both the 2006 and 2007 editions
of The BAR-D Roundup.
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to the 30-second public service
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60-second version.
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The BAR-D Roundup:
Volume 2 (2007) cover art is a photo of Texas cowboy
Orville Bennett, c. 1920, the father of Pete Bennett and
father-in-law of poet
Virginia
Bennett.
Inside the CD, a 2006
photo of South Dakota rancher
Ken
Cook and his sons Korey,
Kelly, and Kiel is featured.
We welcome photo
submissions for future editions of The BAR-D Roundup.
Cover images will be vintage family cowboy and ranching photos, and
inside, contemporary ranch family photos will be featured.
Email us for information
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The BAR-D Roundup News
(find the most current news with the 2009 CD,
here)
England's Graham Lees' weekly radio
show,
The
Western Hour, features cowboy poetry along with Western
swing and cowboy music.
The April 3, 2008 show includes
Yvonne
Hollenbeck's "Prairie Patchwork" from
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Three;
and Darrell
Arnold's "Cowboy Poultry
Gatherin'," and Andy
Nelson's Public Service Announcement (PSA) for the
Center
for Western and Cowboy Poetry and CowboyPoetry.com from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
The March 27, 2008 show includes selections from the first volume of
The BAR-D Roundup:
Linda Kirkpatrick's "When Roundup Time Comes
'Round, DW Groethe's "Yearlin' Heifers,"
and
Jim
Thompson's Public Service Announcement (PSA) for the
Center
for Western and Cowboy Poetry and CowboyPoetry.com.
The
Western Hour is available on the radio and on demand on the
internet at
www.twangtownusa.com (program
#13).
CD submissions are welcome for consideration for airplay:
Graham Lees,
13 Overthorpe Ave,
Thornhill,
Dewsbury,
West Yorkshire
WF12 0DS,
England;
www.grahamlees.co.uk,
See our feature about
The Western Hour
here.
Updated 4/4
Radio host Joe Baker of the Backforty
Bunkhouse show has been giving his listeners previews of the 2008 edition of
The BAR-D Roundup. You can listen to
archived shows
here.
The March 22, 2008
show includes
Yvonne Hollenbeck's "Prairie Patchwork."
The March 15, 2008 show includes
Pat Richardson's
"Bigfoot" and
Red
Steagall's "The Memories in Grandmother's Trunk."
The show also airs the
Center
for Western and Cowboy Poetry
Public Service Announcement (PSA) by
Francie Ganje, radio host and director of the
Heritage of the American West show.
Joe Baker sends The BAR-D Roundup to
over 170 radio stations each year, through his
Backforty Bunkhouse Promotions.
The Backforty Bunkhouse Show airs live every
Saturday morning from 6am to 10am on two 100,000 watt stations covering New
Mexico and West Texas: "New Mexico's Bear" KNMB
96.7FM and "W-105" KWMW, 105.1FM. Archived
shows are available on the internet at the
Backforty Bunkhouse web site.
Joe Baker welcomes music and poetry recordings, and he also
does reviews.
You can send recordings for consideration to: Backforty Bunkhouse
Promotions,
Joe Baker,
106 Roswell Street,
Ruidoso, New Mexico 88345;
(505) 257-3955; www.BackfortyBunkhouse.com.
See our feature about the show and Backforty Bunkhouse Promotions
here.
Posted 3/25
The weekly Cowboy Culture Corner
radio show, with hosts Dallas and PJ McCord, often features tracks
from both editions of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The March 30 show previewed
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Three and included "Bigfoot" by
Pat Richardson,
"To Be a Top Hand" by Georgie Sicking,
Deanna Dickinson McCall's
"Advice,"
Randy Rieman's recitation of
Henry Herbert Knibbs' "Where the Ponies Come to Drink,"
Hal Swift's
recitation of James Barton Adams' "Bill's in Trouble," and
Yvonne
Hollenbeck's "Prarie Patchwork."
The March 16 show included
Elizabeth
Ebert's "He Talked About Montana" and
Smoke
Wade's poem, "Trailing the Herd" from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two, and
A. K. Moss' poem, "The Truth," from
the first volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The March 9 show, which featured an interview
with "national treasure," Utah poet Don
Kennington, included
Red
Steagall's "Born to this Land" from
the first volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The February 17 show included
Janice Gilbertson's "Night Time's Promise" from the
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two"
and
Mick
Vernon's
"Picayune Valley" from
the first volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The February 10 show included
Peggy
Godfrey''s poem, "Country Graft," and
Diane
Tribitt's poem, "Prayer Under the Northern Lights," from the
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two"
and Andy Hedges' recitation of Henry
Herbert Knibbs' poem, "Boomer Johnson," from
the first volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The February 3 show included
Yvonne Hollenbeck's
poem, “Nature's Church,” and
Jim
Thompson's
recitation of Arthur Chapman's
"Out Where the West Begins" from the
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two"
and
Mick
Vernon's
"Picayune Valley" from
the first volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The January 20 show, included
Badger Clark's recording of, "Ridin,'"
his first published poem,
from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and
Mick
Vernon's
"Picayune Valley" from
the first volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The January 13 show, which featured
Juni Fisher's
new CD, Gone for
Colorado, included
Smoke
Wade's poem, "Trailing the Herd" and
Diane
Tribitt's poem, "Prayer
Under the Northern Lights"
from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and
Mick
Vernon's
"Picayune Valley" and Mike Puhallo's "Man in the Moon"
from
the first volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The January 6th show, a special show dedicated
to poet and musician Charlie Camden,
who is suffering serious health challenges, included
Yvonne Hollenbeck's
poem, “Nature's Church,” and
Jim
Thompson's
recitation of Arthur Chapman's
"Out Where the West Begins" from the
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
The December 23rd show, with the theme of "Down
Cowboy Memory Lane," included
Kent Rollins'
"Horseshoes & Heaven" from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and Red
Steagall's "Born to this Land" from
the first volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The December 9 program, along
with many, many Christmas selections, featured
Kent Rollins'
"Horseshoes & Heaven" from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
The December 2nd program featured Don
Kennington's
"The Last Nail" from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
The November 25th program featured
Mick
Vernon's
"Picayune Valley"
from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
The November 11th program featured
Virginia Bennett's
poem, "As You Ride," and
Diane
Tribitt's poem, "Prayer
Under the Northern Lights"
from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and Red
Steagall's poem, "Born to This Land," from
the first volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The November 4 program featured
Smoke
Wade's "Trailing the Herd" and
Pat Richardson's
"The Banker" from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
The October 28 program included
Peggy
Godfrey's
poem, "Country Graft," from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and
Mick
Vernon's
"Picayune Valley"
from
from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
The October 14 program included
Doris Daley's
"A Letter to Mr. Russell" from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and
Trey Allen's "Alone" and
Buck
Ramsey's "Anthem"
from the first volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The October 7 program included
Jay
Snider's "300 Miles to Go" and
Georgie Sicking's "The Greatest Sport"
from the first volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The September 2 program
included
Diane
Tribitt's poem, "Prayer
Under the Northern Lights"
from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and
Mick
Vernon's
"Picayune Valley"
from the first volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The August 19 program included
Georgie
Sicking's "The Greatest Sport" from the first
volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The August 12 program included
Jerry
"Brooksie" Brooks reciting "Morning on the Desert" by
Katherine Fall Pettey from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and Mike Puhallo's "Man in the Moon"
from the previous volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The August 5 program included
Elizabeth
Ebert's "He Talked About Montana"
from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and
Colen Sweeten's "Cow on the
Fight"
from the previous volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The July 29 program included
Sunny
Hancock's "Born To This Land: and
Smoke
Wade's "Trailing the Herd" from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and
Chris Isaacs' recitation of
Sunny
Hancock's "Change on the Range"
from the previous volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The July 22 program included
Randy Rieman's recitation of
Bruce Kiskaddon's "When They've Finished
Shipping Cattle in the Fall" and Smoke
Wade's "Trailing the Herd" from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
The July 15 program included
Darrell
Arnold's "The Cowboy Poultry Gatherin'" and
Smoke
Wade's "Trailing the Herd" from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and
Mick
Vernon's
"Picayune Valley" from the previous volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The July 8 program included
Badger Clark's
recitation of his poem, "Ridin'," and "Sunny
Hancock's poem, "The Horse
Trade,"
from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
The July 1 program included two
poems from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two:
Paul Zarzyski's
recitation of S.
Omar Barker's "Hosses vs. Horses" and
Elizabeth
Ebert's "He Talked About Montana."
The June 24 program included
Don
Kennington's "The Last Nail" and
Yvonne
Hollenbeck's "Nature's Church" from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and three tracks from the previous
volume of The BAR-D Roundup:
Colen Sweeten's "Cow on the
Fight," Mick Vernon's "Picayune
Valley," and
Andy
Nelson's "Cowboy Poet."
The June 17 program included
Smoke
Wade's "Trailing the Herd" from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and two tracks from the previous
volume of The BAR-D Roundup,
Red Steagall's
"Born to this Land" and Pat Richardson's
"The Banker."
The Cowboy Culture Corner plays Western and
cowboy music, cowboy poetry, and some bluegrass gospel. The show
airs Sundays from 1 PM to 4 PM. (Pacific) on
KNND
1400AM in Cottage Grove, Oregon.
Dallas McCord has been named a 2007
DJ
of the Year by the Academy of Western Artists.
CD submissions are welcome for consideration for
airplay.
Read more about
the Cowboy Culture Corner in our feature
here.
Updated 4/2
The March 31, 2008 Radio Ranch
show hosted by
Mick Vernon,
the Artistic Director of the
Monterey Cowboy Poetry & Music
Festival, previewed all the tracks of the forthcoming 2008
edition of The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Three.
Included were tracks by
Robert Service,
Red Steagall, Wallace McRae,
Paul Zarzyski,
Randy Rieman, Ross Knox,
Jerry Brooks,
Buck
Ramsey,
Joel
Nelson, Ken Cook,
Doris
Daley, DW
Groethe,
Yvonne
Hollenbeck, Paul Kern,
Linda Kirkpatrick, Deanna Dickinson McCall,
Andy
Nelson, Susan Parker,
Pat Richardson,
Georgie Sicking, Bill Siems,
Jay Snider, Rhonda Sedgwick Stearns,
Hal Swift,
Mick
Vernon, and
Smoke
Wade.
Radio Ranch
is broadcast live on the internet every Sunday evening. Read more
about the show here.
CD submissions are welcome for consideration: Radio
Ranch,
1120 Forest Ave, #319, Pacific Grove, CA 93950.
The March 9, 2008 Radio Ranch
show included Buck Ramsey's
"Anthem," part of his epic poem Grass, from the first
edition of
The BAR-D Roundup
and the first chapter of Grass from
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
The 2008 edition of
The BAR-D Roundup will include the
next chapter of the poem. The March 9th Radio Ranch show celebrated great
storytelling in cowboy and Western music and poetry.
The November 26, 2007
Radio Ranch
included a preview of his recitation of S. Omar Barker's
"Jack Potter's Courtin'," which will be included on the 2008 edition
of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The August 6,
2007 show included
Badger Clark's own vintage recording of his first
published poem, "Ridin'," and J. B. Allen's recitation of
Gail I. Gardner’s “The Sierry
Petes.” from
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
The July 1, 2007 show included
Jerry "Brooksie" Brooks'
recitation of
Katherine Fall Pettey's
"Morning on the Desert"
from
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and
Trey Allen's recitation of
Bruce Kiskaddon 's "Alone" from the 2006 edition of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The May 20, 2007 Radio Ranch show played
Paul Zarzyski's
recitation of S. Omar Barker's
"Hosses vs. Horses" from
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
[photo © 2005,
Henry Benson]
Updated 3/31
Eddie Kilroy, host of
Willie's Cowboy
Gathering on XM Radio,
features the best of Western music and cowboy poetry on his weekly show.
The March
30, 2008 featured
Jay Snider's
"Tyrone and Tyree" and the late Rod Nichols'
"Talent," from
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
Willie's Cowboy
Gathering airs Sundays at 9AM Central and 9PM Central, and Wednesdays
at 8PM Central.
[photo of Eddie Kilroy at the 2007 National Cowboy Poetry
Gathering by Jeri L.
Dobrowski; see her gallery of western performers and others
here.]
Posted 3/31
Marvin
O'Dell's three-hour
Around the Campfire show airs six times a week on
Heartland Public Radio, which broadcasts 24 hours a day on the internet.
The program starting February 9 features
Andy Nelson's poem, "Cowboy Poet," from
The BAR-D Roundup.
The program starting December 8 included
Kent Rollins'
"Horseshoes & Heaven" from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
Marvin O'Dell was named the 2007 Radio DJ of the
Year by the
Western Music Association (WMA).
CD submissions are welcome for consideration for
airplay. See our feature about Around the Campfire
here and listen to the show on Heartland
Public Radio
here.
Posted 2/8
Howard Staub's weekly radio show,
The Real West from the Old West, often
features tracks from
both editions of
The
BAR-D Roundup. (Howard Staub had surgery on Thursday, January
24, 2008. See more here; you can write to
Howard Staub at Drawer 2249, Deming, NM 88031-2249. His show
is on hiatus.)
For the weekly program starting January 23, the
show includes
Paul Zarzyski's
recitation of S. Omar Barker's
"Hosses vs. Horses" from
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
You can listen to the current week's show at the
KOTS web site.
Howard Staub also airs the
Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry
Public Service Announcement (you can listen to the 2007 PSA
here at the BAR-D).
For the weekly program starting January 16, all
of the poetry on show is from the
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two. Selections include
Pat
Richardson's "Shep's Poetry,"
Peggy Godfrey's "Country Graft,"
Jerry "Brooksie" Brooks reciting "Morning on the Desert" by
Katherine Fall Pettey,
Jim Thompson's
recitation of Arthur Chapman's
"Out Where the West Begins," and the late
Rod Nichols' "Talent."
For the weekly program starting November 28,
Howard featured
Virginia Bennett's “As You Ride” from
the
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
For the week of November 7—a program with the
music and poetry of many of the nominees for the
Western Music Association (WMA)
awards—Howard featured
Jay Snider's "300 Miles to Go,"
Jerry "Brooksie" Brooks reciting "Morning on the Desert" by
Katherine Fall Pettey, and
Yvonne Hollenbeck's "Nature's Church" from
the
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two; and
Yvonne
Hollenbeck's "What Would Martha Do?"
from
the first volume of
The
BAR-D Roundup.
For the weekly program starting October 24,
Howard featured
Joel Nelson's poem, "Breaker in the
Pen," from the
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and Red
Steagall's "Born to this Land" from
the first volume of
The
BAR-D Roundup.
For the week of October 10, Howard featured
DW Groethe's "The Bunny Poem";
Rod Nichols' "Talent"; and
Jim Thompson's recitation of
Arthur Chapman's "Out Where the West Begins" from the
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two, along with Yvonne
Hollenbeck's "What Would Martha Do? and
Buckshot Dot (Dee Strickland Johnson)'s "The End of
the Day" from
the first volume of
The
BAR-D Roundup.
The show for the week of September 26 featured
Georgie Sicking's "The
Greatest Sport" from the first volume of
The
BAR-D Roundup.
For the week of September 19, all of the poetry
was from
both editions of
The
BAR-D Roundup. The show also included many great cowboy songs.
Howard's all about getting music and poetry heard, and the week's two hour
show included 36 tracks of cowboy music, cowboy poetry and
western swing. The September 19 show included four tracks from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two:
Ken
Cook's "Grandpa," the
late J. B. Allen's recitation of Gail
I. Gardner’s "The Sierry Petes,"
Badger Clark's recording of, "Ridin,'" his
first published poem, and
Cowboy Magazine editor
Darrell Arnold's "The Cowboy Poultry
Gatherin',"; and three tracks from the 2006 edition of
The
BAR-D Roundup:
Mark L. Gardner's recitation of
Jack Thorp's "What’s Become of the
Punchers?,”
Pat Richardson's "Cowboy Banker"
and
Andy Nelson's "Cowboy Poet."
The show for the week of September 12 features
Paul Zarzyski
reciting S. Omar Barker's "Hosses
vs. Horses" from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two
(the track is from
the award-winning Montana 4-H Spurrin' the Words
CD).
The show for the week of September 5 featured
Janice Gilbertson's "Night Time's
Promise" from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and
Buckshot Dot (Dee Strickland Johnson)'s
"The End of the Day" from the 2006 edition of
The
BAR-D Roundup.
The show for the week of August 29 featured
selections from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two:
DW Groethe's "The Bunny Poem" and
Rod Nichols' "Talent"; and selections from the
2006 edition of
The
BAR-D Roundup,
Mick Vernon's
"Picayune Valley" and
Jane Morton's "Yoo-hoo."
The show for the week of August 15 featured
selections from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two:
Smoke Wade's "Trailing the Herd,"
Jerry "Brooksie" Brooks
recitation of "Morning on the Desert" by
Katherine Fall Pettey,
Rod Nichols' "Talent," and
Jim Thompson's recitation of
Arthur Chapman's "Out Where the West Begins."
The show for the week of August 8 featured
Jay
Snider's "Tyrone and Tyree" and
Elizabeth Ebert's "He Talked
About Montana" from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and
Linda Kirkpatrick's
"When Roundup Time Comes 'Round," Mark L.
Gardner's recitation of
Jack Thorp's "What's Become of the Punchers,"
Doris Daley's "French Fries," and
Andy Hedges' recitation of
Henry Herbert Knibbs' "Boomer Johnson" from the
2006 edition of
The
BAR-D Roundup.
The show for the week of August 1 featured
tracks from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two:
Yvonne
Hollenbeck's "Nature's Church,"
Ken Cook's "Grandpa,"
Kent Rollins' "Horseshoes & Heaven,"
Darrell Arnold's "Cowboy Poultry
Gathering," and
Pat Richardson's "Shep's
Poetry." The show also aired the
Center
for Western and Cowboy Poetry Public Service Announcement, and
gave away a copy of The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two to a call-in
listener.
The show for the week of July 25 featured
DW Groethe's "The Bunny Poem" and
Don Kennington's "The Last Nail"
from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and
Don Kennington's
"The Cowboy Banker" from the previous volume of
The BAR-D Roundup.
The show for the week of July 18 featured
Sunny Hancock's poem, "The Horse Trade,"
from
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
Previous shows have featured tracks from both
CDs.
The Real West from the Old West
features cowboy music, cowboy poetry, and western swing, and cowboys and
cowgirls, past and present. The show airs live on the radio and
on the internet each Wednesday
morning from 10:00 AM until noon (Mountain) on
KOTS/1230AM in Deming, New Mexico. You can also listen to the
current week's show at any time at the
KOTS web site.
See
our feature about the show
here.
Updated 1/25
The Western Playlists in the
Winter, 2008 issue of The
Western Way cite
The BAR-D Roundup,
Volume 2 as the number three most-played Cowboy Poetry Album and
the 2006 edition of
The BAR-D Roundup
as the fifth-most-played.
The Western Way
is the official
publication of the Western
Music Association (WMA).
Read more about what's in the current issue
here.
Posted 1/8
The
Clear Out West (C. O. W.)
radio show for the week of December
31, 2007, hosted
by Jim and
Andy Nelson, features
DW Groethe's "The Bunny Poem", from
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two on a
special year-end show.
The
show also airs the
Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry
Public Service Announcement, created by Andy Nelson (you can listen to
the PSA and download it here at the BAR-D for your
web site or show).
Clear Out West (C. O. W.) radio is
broadcast to many radio stations and past shows are available for listening
on demand from the
Clear Out West web site.
The show has
been featuring poems from
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two and you can
listen to them in the Clear Out West archives:
The November
12, 2007, show featured
Peggy Godfrey's poem, "Country
Graft."
The November
5, 2007 show featured
Darrell Arnold's poem, "The Cowboy
Poultry Gatherin'."
The October
22, 2007 show featured
Smoke Wade's poem, "Trailing the Herd."
The October 15, 2007 show featured Ken
Cook's
poem, "Grandpa."
The October 8, 2007 show featured
Buck Ramsey's poem, the first
chapter of his epic poem, "Grass."
The
September 17, 2007 show featured Jay Snider's
poem, "Tyrone and Tyree."
The
September 10, 2007 show featured
Rod Nichols' poem, "Talent.
The September 3, 2007 show featured Yvonne Hollenbeck's
poem, “Nature's Church.”
The August
20, 2007 show featured Don Kennington's
“The Last Nail.”
The August
13, 2007 show featured Virginia Bennett's
“As You Ride.”
The July 30,
2007 show featured
Jo Lynne Kirkwood's “A Cowboy
Season.”
The July 23,
2007 show featured the late J. B. Allen's recitation of
Gail I. Gardner’s famous “The Sierry Petes.”
The July 16,
2007, show featured Paul Zarzyski
reciting S. Omar Barker's "Hosses
vs. Horses"
(the recording is
from the award-winning Montana 4-H Spurrin' the
Words
CD).
The July 2,
2007 show featured Joel Nelson's poem,
"Breaker in the Pen."
The June 25,
2007 show featured
Diane Tribitt's poem,
"Prayer Under the Northern Lights."
The June 18,
2007 show featured Pat Richardson's
poem "Shep's Poetry."
The May 28,
2007 show featured Doris Daley's
poem, "A Letter to Mr. Russell."
The May 7,
2007 show featured
Sunny Hancock's poem, "The
Horse Trade."
The show for
April 23, 2007 featured Kent Rollins'
"Horseshoes and Heaven."
The
Clear Out West (C. O. W.) show for
April 16, 2006 featured
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two
in a special celebration
of
Cowboy Poetry Week. All of the poetry
featured on the April 16 show is from the new CD, including
Elizabeth Ebert's "He Talked About
Montana";
Jim Thompson reciting
Arthur Chapman s "Out Where the West
Begins";
Janice Gilbertson's "Night Time's
Promise";
DW Groethe's "The Bunny Poem"; and
Jerry "Brooksie" Brooks reciting "Morning on the Desert" by
Katherine Fall Pettey
All of the
songs played on the special show are those that were originally poems,
including Wylie & the Wild West's "Hooves
of the Horses" (by Will Ogilvie);
Jean Prescott's "Dining Out" (by
Yvonne Hollenbeck); Dave Stamey's "Spin That Pony" (by
Les Buffham); and Cowboy Celtic's "The
Border Affair (Spanish is the Loving Tongue)" (by
Badger Clark).
The Cowboy Poetry Week show also includes the
Center
for Western and Cowboy Poetry
Public Service (PSA) Announcement, created by Andy Nelson. (You can
listen here at the BAR-D to the 30-second
public service announcement from the CD and to an expanded
60-second version.) The show
also includes a PSA for the
Western Music Association.
The show always
includes many good cowboy poetry and Western music selections, the popular
"Dick's Pick" (a vintage cowboy music piece), "Farrier's File," "This Week in
the Old West," and the generally hilarious and unpredictable banter and antics
of the Nelson brothers.
CD submissions are welcome for consideration for airplay.
See our feature about Clear Out West (C.O.W.)
here.
[photo by
Stuart Johnson]
Updated 12/31
At
Amazon.com,
you can sample the audio for each of the tracks from
Volume 1 and
Volume 2 of The
BAR-D Roundup.
Posted 12/3
Ken Overcast's top-rated
Cowboy Show has a monthly giveaway
that includes copies of
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two, along with Ken's
latest book of stories, Shootin' the
Breeze, Cowboy Style. The July giveaway also included the
25th Anniversary Cowboy Songs and Range
Ballads CD produced by the Buffalo Bill Historical Center,
Kip Calahan's You're Lookin' at Country, and an
autographed copy of Honky Tonk Town by Montana author and
historian, Gary A. Wilson.
Read the July newsletter
here at
Ken Overcast's web site, where you can also sign up for the monthly giveaway.
The Cowboy Show with
Ken Overcast is a nationally syndicated one-hour program, broadcast weekly.
The show features current Cowboy music, interviews with artists and old-time
cowboys, and a bit of storytelling and poetry. You
can listen on the
internet to recent shows. View the playlists and
read more at The Cowboy
Show site. CD submissions are welcome for
consideration: The Cowboy Show; PO Box 1542, Chinook, MT 59523
The
Cowboy Show is also heard on Classic
Heartland and
Heartland Public Radio internet radio, Saturdays and Sundays.
See our feature about the show here.
Updated 8/7
The Western Playlists in the Summer, 2007 issue of The
Western Way cite
The BAR-D Roundup,
Volume 2 as the top-played Cowboy Poetry Album.
The Western Way
is the official publication of the
Western Music Association (WMA).
Read more about what's in the current issue
here.
Posted 8/31
The August, 2007 issue of
Western Horseman includes a review of
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two.
Associate Editor
Kyle Partain writes, "The CD's 28 tracks offer something for everyone
who appreciates tales of ranching, riding, and roping." The review features
the classic selections and also devotes several paragraphs to Cowboy
Magazine Editor Darrell Arnold's
poem, "Cowboy Poultry Gatherin'," and also to Rod
Nichols' poem, "Talent."
Posted 7/24
Smoke Wade
reviews
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two
in his latest
Cowboy Poetry Review
column, saying that it "may
be the best produced cowboy poetry album of the year..."
Read the entire review here and
additional recent reviews in his column
here.
Posted 7/3
The Summer, 2007 issue of
Cowboy Magazine
has high praise for
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two,
the second
compilation of contemporary recordings of some of today's best classic
and contemporary cowboy poetry from CowboyPoetry.com and the Center for
Western and Cowboy Poetry. The review comments, "...It is well produced, well
presented, and well worth listening to. You'll want this recording (along with
Volume One from last year) in your collection."
Cowboy Magazine
is "dedicated to telling the story of the authentic working
cowboy."
Read more about what's in the
current issue here at
the BAR-D and visit the
Cowboy Magazine
web site.
Posted 7/2
Ken Overcast's top-rated
Cowboy Show has a monthly giveaway
that includes copies of
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two, along with
Ken's latest book of stories,
Shootin' the Breeze, Cowboy Style; subscriptions to
American Cowboy magazine, and
more. Read about it in his latest newsletter that you can read
here at
his web site, where you can also sign up for the monthly giveaway.
The Cowboy Show with Ken Overcast is a nationally syndicated
one-hour program, broadcast weekly. The show features current Cowboy music,
interviews with artists and old-time cowboys, and a bit of storytelling and
poetry. You can listen
on the internet to recent shows. View the playlists and read more at
The Cowboy Show site. Submissions (in CD format only) are welcome
for consideration: The Cowboy Show; PO Box 1542, Chinook, MT 59523
The Cowboy Show is also heard on
Classic Heartland and
Heartland Public Radio internet radio, Saturdays and Sundays.
See our feature about the show here.
Posted 6/11
Idaho's Western Heritage Show
on KRLC in Lewiston, Idaho with Toe Tappin' Tommy Tucker featured
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two on Friday, May 18 and played
Smoke Wade's "Trailing the Herd"
from the CD. See our feature about the Western Heritage Show
here.
Posted 5/21
Sam Jackson,
producer of the
National Cowboy Poetry Rodeo
comments on on
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two:
On a scale of 1 to 10, The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two rates an
11.
Posted 4/26
Monterey Cowboy Poetry & Music
Festival Director and
Radio Ranch host
Mick Vernon
comments on
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two:
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two is a ride well worth the taking.
Feel a saddle gently rock between your legs, smell pine trees or the
sagebrush in bloom, taste strong black coffee and trail dust, and see
— truly see
— the West
come to life in your mind's eye.
[photo © 2005,
Henry Benson]
Posted 4/24
Ken Overcast's
popular, nationally
syndicated radio program,
The Cowboy Show, helped
celebrate
Cowboy Poetry Week by including
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two
and the 2007 Cowboy Poetry Week poster by
Tim Cox
in the show's monthly giveaway (along with other items). You can read
more about the monthly giveaway and sign up
here at
Ken's site. See the schedule for The Cowboy Show and listen to
archived broadcasts of the show
here at The
Cowboy Show site.
Posted 4/21
Idaho's Western Heritage Show
on KRLC in Lewiston, Idaho with Toe Tappin' Tommy Tucker,
Smoke Wade, and others,
celebrated Cowboy Poetry Week with tracks from
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two on Friday, April 20.
Posted 4/21
Rick Huff, who reviews cowboy
poetry and Western music for The Western Way from the
Western Music Association,
Rope Burns, and
CowboyPoetry.com, has a review of
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two:
"For fans, poets, reciters and
reviewers this second edition of the Bar D Roundup (issued in
honor of Cowboy Poetry Week within National Poetry Month) is a
treasury in every sense of that word. The “rhyming” word,
specifically!
"What a joy it was to hear Badger Clark
himself from the early 1950s rendering his first published poem
“Ridin,’” which Don Edwards and more recently Barry Hertz put to
music. For a little nuttiness, they’ve thrown in the likes
of Pat Richardson and D.W. Groethe. Performers can benefit
from closely studying the natural, storytelling style of the late
Sunny Hancock spinning off “The Horse Trade,” Joel Nelson’s modern
classic “Breaker In The Pen,” Jay Snider impeccably delivering his
“Tyrone & Tyree” and so many more. And if poets need any
further reminding of how it should be done, here too are those
words from Bruce Kiskaddon, Gail Gardner, S. Omar Barker and
others.
"For those interested in…or those who think
they might like to investigate…this international phenomenon
called “Cowboy Poetry,” here’s your next Must-Hear primer. The
first one, of course, was last year’s edition!
Both are available: $20 postage paid from
www.cowboypoetry.com."
Rick Huff has produced radio and TV ads and done TV hosting and
deejay work for nearly 37 years. He's had his own production company
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, since 1978. His Western Air
column about Western radio appears regularly in the Western Music
Association's magazine, The Western Way. You can also read
Western Air
here at CowboyPoetry.com, and
read Rick's Reviews here.
Posted 4/19
Monterey Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival Director
Mick Vernon's
popular
Radio Ranch show featured every
track of
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two on his April 15,
2007 show, in celebration of
Cowboy Poetry Week. The
show is sponsored by the Monterey Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival, and
airs each Sunday from 5pm to 7pm on KNRY 1240 AM (and live on the web
at www.knry.com).
Read more about Mick Vernon in our
feature
here,
and visit the Monterey Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival
web site.
[photo © 2005,
Henry Benson]
Posted 4/16
The April edition of
Jeri Dobrowski's Cowboy Jam Session
column celebrates the release of the
The
BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two. Within the column, she comments
about the CD:
"Prepare for a trip through time. There
are classics and pieces written about times long gone. Also
included are glimpses into the lives of modern cow hands,
ranchers, ranch wives, farriers, and poets...Close your eyes and be carried along with an ebb and flow of
emotions and imagery. Wrapped within the subject matter and
interpretations there’s sincerity, intimacy, good-natured
joshing, wisdom, respect, hogwash, poignancy, and
spirituality."
Read the
entire column
in our feature
here.
Posted 4/15
Find the most current news
here.
About The BAR-D Roundup:
Volume 2 (2007) and
Cowboy Poetry Week
The sixth
annual Cowboy Poetry Week (April 15-21, 2007) sponsored by the Center for Western
and Cowboy Poetry (www.CowboyPoetry.com),
celebrates a venerable and popular folk form that gives a voice to the
working West. Cowboys, ranchers, and Western writers tell their stories
in poetry—tales
as lively today as ever—in
a great American tradition that has endured for over 125 years. The
week's celebration includes many events taking place in communities, libraries,
and elsewhere.
Center Director and CowboyPoetry.com managing editor Margo Metegrano
comments, "Cowboy poetry preserves a history as it tells the
stories of our working West. As importantly, it conveys compelling
modern accounts of an endangered way of life to those who may have
little information about this important segment of our population.
Cowboy poets, with their insight, humor, and storytelling talents, are
great ambassadors from the rural world."
Inaugurated in 2002, Cowboy Poetry Week was officially recognized by
unanimous resolution of the United States Senate. The celebration, with
a special focus on
rural libraries, is held during the third week of April each year, in conjunction with
National Poetry Month in the United States and Canada. For
the 2006 celebration, sixteen
states’ governors officially proclaimed Cowboy Poetry Week and there
were activities across the West and beyond.
Montana
Governor Brian Schweitzer commented in his 2006 Cowboy Poetry Week letter
of support, "In the tradition of written and oral history, cowboy
poets preserve our rich cultural history, opening the door for the
generations to come to discover the heritage of the years past....we are
proud of our numerous well-respected contemporary cowboy poets and look
forward to the next generation of storytellers..."
“At
His Own Pace,” a painting by top Western artist Tim Cox (www.TimCox.com)
is this year’s Cowboy Poetry Week poster art. Posters go out to
hundreds of libraries as a part of the Center’s Rural Library Project, an
important Cowboy Poetry Week outreach activity, part of the Center's mission to serve a mostly
underserved community of rural Westerners.
A
new edition of The BAR-D
Roundup, a compilation CD of the best in classic and current cowboy
poetry will be released during Cowboy Poetry Week. The CD is also
offered to libraries and available for purchase; proceeds help fund the
Center’s programs, including CowboyPoetry.com.
This
second annual edition of The BAR-D Roundup includes Charles Badger Clark
Jr.’s vintage recording of his first published poem, “Ridin’”;
recent poems considered modern classics, recited by their authors,
including “Breaker in the Pen” by Joel Nelson and “The Horse
Trade” by the late Sunny Hancock; noted reciters Randy Rieman and
Jerry “Brooksie” Brooks performing classic poems by Bruce Kiskaddon
and Katherine Fall Pettey; Gail I. Gardner’s famous “The Sierry
Petes” recited by the late J. B. Allen, and “Hail and Farewell,”
by Delia Gist Gardner, delivered by Gail Steiger, songwriter, filmmaker,
rancher, and the Gardners’ grandson; and a second selection of poetry
from “Grass,” cowboy poetry’s masterwork by the late Buck Ramsey,
a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, recognized as the modern
spiritual leader of the genre. There
are many additional tracks (27 total), most from poets who frequently
delight audiences from contemporary gathering stages.
CowboyPoetry.com is a central resource for cowboy poetry and associated
Western arts, a project of the non-profit Center for Western and Cowboy
Poetry. Cowboy poetry's enduring popularity is celebrated year round at
CowboyPoetry.com, in a growing number of publications and recordings,
and at hundreds of regional gatherings, most notably the National
Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, which marked its 23rd year in
2007.
Read more about Cowboy Poetry Week, including selected references and links
and see news about poets' activities here.
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Three (2008)
Preview
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Three (2008) will
be released in April, 2008.
This third annual edition of The BAR-D Roundup
showcases contemporary and traditional works, including
Robert Service's vintage recording of
"The Cremation of Sam McGee"; the poetry of past Texas Poet Laureate
Red Steagall, National Endowment for the
Arts National Heritage Fellow Wallace McRae,
and Montana Governor’s Arts Award for Literature recipient
Paul Zarzyski
; noted reciters
Randy Rieman,
Ross Knox, and
Jerry Brooks presenting classic
poems by Henry Herbert Knibbs,
D. J. O'Malley, and
Badger Clark;
a third annual selection from Grass, the master work of the late
Buck
Ramsey, an NEA National Heritage Fellow, recognized as the
modern spiritual leader of the genre; and eighteen additional offerings
from today’s top poets and reciters, including
Joel
Nelson, Ken Cook,
Doris
Daley,
DW
Groethe, Yvonne
Hollenbeck, Paul Kern,
Linda Kirkpatrick (reciting a
Bruce Kiskaddon
poem), Deanna Dickinson McCall,
Andy
Nelson, Susan Parker
(reciting an A. V. Hudson poem),
Pat Richardson,
Georgie Sicking,
Bill Siems (reciting a Curley Fletcher
poem), Jay Snider (reciting a
Luther A. Lawhon poem),
Rhonda Sedgwick Stearns,
Hal Swift (reciting a
James Barton Adams poem),
Mick
Vernon (reciting an S. Omar
Barker poem), and
Smoke
Wade.
The CD cover is a photo of
Perry Preston ("P. P.") Dickinson, circa 1912, Texas cowboy. Perry
Preston was the grandfather of Deanna
Dickinson McCall, and great grandfather of poets and reciters
Rusty McCall and Katie-McCall Owens.
Inside, there's a photo of South Dakota rancher
Glen Hollenbeck, husband of poet Yvonne
Hollenbeck.
Poems and
permissions were generously donated by poets, musicians, families, and
publishers.
Joe Baker of the Backforty Bunkhouse
will distribute the CD to his extensive network of
nearly 200 western radio disc jockeys.
The BAR-D
Roundup: Volume Two
CD includes a radio Public Service
(PSA) Announcement by Francie Ganje, radio broadcaster and
director of the Heritage of the American West
show.
Poet, humorist, and radio host
Andy
Nelson engineered and co-produced the 2008 CD and the previous two
editions.
How to submit
a poem for consideration for future compilations
As Andy Nelson quipped, we need
a CD as big as a pizza to include all of the poems we'd like to include on the
annual cowboy poetry compilation CD.
Selections are made by
invitation, and from the CDs in our library. You are welcome to submit a CD or
a track by mail for consideration. The receipt of such submissions will be
acknowledged, but we regret that we don't have the resources to comment
further on CDs or tracks. All that are received are listened to and
considered.
If you've submitted a CD
previously and want to suggest a particular track for consideration, please
email
us with that information.
As always, we're looking for
quality: well written poems, well recited, on a professional-quality
recording.
Also, for this project, there
are these considerations:
-
poetry must be your
original poetry or be in the public domain or be used with written
permission (supplied to us) by the author, who must also be willing to
permit reproduction of the track, without compensation or royalties
The CD will be offered to rural
libraries, will be distributed to radio stations for air play, will be used as
a premium for supporters of the Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry, and may
be sold.
Those donating tracks receive a copy of the recording. There is no
additional payment and no royalties are paid.
We're continually considering
selections for forthcoming annual compilation CDs.
Send submissions to:
CowboyPoetry.com, PO Box 330444, San Francisco, CA 94133.
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