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Rick Huff reviews Western music and cowboy poetry recordings in his "Rick Huff's Best of the West" column in Rope Burns, The Western Way, I.M. Cowgirl, and Country Western Gazette and here at CowboyPoetry.com. We're pleased to have selected reviews below. Rick welcomes submissions of Western music and cowboy poetry recordings. Please be sure to include complete contact information, the CD price (plus postage) and order address information. Rick Huff  P.O. Box 8442  Albuquerque, NM  87198-8442   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 working interest in Western Music began in 1983, promoting and creating with Western Music Hall-of-Famer Hi Busse.  In 1986 they developed the radio featurette "Song and Story with Hi Busse" and Huff subsequently released two albums of Hi Busse & The Frontiersmen material.  He has co-produced CD's for Sons of the Rio Grande and Jim Jones.  In 1999 he and Sidekick Productions' Mary Ryland formed Frontiersmen 2 to co-produce their radio show "The Best of the West Revue" and its publication "The Best of the West Digest."  In 2004 they released a double CD set, The Best of New Mexico Western: Big Surprises From Behind the Chile Curtain! and are currently working on Volume II - or as they like to call it Son of the Best of New Mexico Western!     Huff's "Western Air" column appears regularly in the Western Music Association's magazine, The Western Way. He also writes for Classic Country & Western magazine and Rope Burns. The column is a regular feature of the Western Music Association's quarterly magazine, The Western Way, and we're pleased to have recent columns posted here.

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Selected Reviews from Rick Huff's Best of the West Reviews

 

The most recent reviews are posted and listed here on page 3.

See the links below for all reviews.

Alphabetically by artist, all reviews

A
JB — the circle (J. B. Allen's poetry) edited by Duward Campbell and Chuck Milner  Page 2
Born to be a Cowboy by David Anderson  Page 2
Ride Easy, Pard! by Vic Anderson  Page 2
 

B
Prairie Rose by Bad Bob  Page 2
Standing Tall in the Shadows (Memoirs of a Hollywood Manager) by Dick Baxter  Page 2
Western State O’ Mind by John Bergstrom  Page 3 
Ride Back in Time by Joe Bethancourt  Page 2
Song Man by Donnie Blanz  Page 3
Saloon Piano Vol. V by Dave Bourne  Page 3
Window of Memories by Marci Broyhill Page 2
 

C
Twilight on the Trail by Call of the West Page 3
Follow the Trail by Carin Mari & and Pony Express  Page 3
Astraddle a Saddle, by Patty Clayton  Page 2
The Leather, The Dust by Maureen Joy Gale and Jesse Colt  Page 3
Woodsmoke at Sundown by Dean Cook  Page 2
I'm Gonna Be a Cowboy by Ken Cook  Page 2
The Right Five—Vol. 1 by Country Night Live   Page 3
Route 66 by Cowbop   Page 3
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two from CowboyPoetry.com Page 2
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Three from CowboyPoetry.com   Page 3
Way Out West by Hank Cramer  Page 2
Longing for the Range by Vince Crofts and Mindi Reid   Page 3

D
Every Horse I Ever Rode by Kevin Davis  Page 2
Keepin' Your Head Above Water by Devon Dawson  Page 2
Spreadin' Sunshine by Sam DeLeeuw  Page 2
Cowtown by the Diamond W Wranglers   Page 3
The Emigrant Trail by Ray Doyle   Page 3

E
Rodeo Bones by Richard Elloyan   Page 2
R.W. Hampton Presents Oklahoma...Where The West Remains by R.W. Hampton, Rich O’Brien, Enid Symphony Orchestra  Page 2

F
Gone for Colorado by Juni Fisher   Page 2
Yondering— Songs of the American West by Rich Flanders   Page 2

G
Here Comes a Change by Jim Garling  Page 2
The Leather, The Dust by Maureen Joy Gale and Jesse Colt  Page 3
Saturday Nite by Earl Gleason   Page 3
Wanderers by Earl Gleason   Page 3
Back in the Good Old Days by Joe Green  Page 2
My Father's Horses by DW Groethe   Page 3
It Sings in the Hi-Line by Kerry Grombacher   Page 3
How to Yodel (Lessons to Tickle Your Tonsils) by Wylie Gustafson  Page 2

H
R.W. Hampton Presents Oklahoma...Where The West Remains by R.W. Hampton, Rich O’Brien, Enid Symphony Orchestra  Page 2
First Light by Audrey Hankins   Page 2
Paul Harris, by Paul Harris  Page 3
Silver Shadows, by Tom and Donna Hatton  Page 2
High Road To Taos by Michael Hearne   Page 2
A Cowboy's Prayer by Barry Hertz  Page 2
What A Man's Got To Do by Brenn Hill  Page 2
Pieces of the Past by Yvonne Hollenbeck (with Jean Prescott)  Page 2
What Would Martha Do? by Yvonne Hollenbeck  Page 2
Western Moon by Horse Crazy  Page 2

I
There's a Road by Interstate Cowboy  Page 3

J
Beneath These Western Skies by Judy James  Page 2
One More Dance by Buckshot Dot (Dee Strickland Johnson)  Page 2
Tilting At Windmills by Jim Jones  Page 2

K
Life Is Good by Teresa Kay  Page 2
 Rimrock (Where Memories Rhyme) by Paul Kern   Page 3
Conflict In The Frio Canyon and The Mysterious Yellow Rose of Texas by Linda Kirkpatrick   Page 3

L
The 75th Anniversary Album—Bill Simmons Tribute by the Light Crust Doughboys   Page 3
Back on the Dusty Trail by Lone Prairie  Page 2
Red Hot From Blue Rock by Lucky Tomblin Band  Page 2

M
Passin' it On, by Mag Mawhinney   Page 3
Cowboy Promises by Rodger Maxwell  Page 2
Trail Songs & Campfire Ballads by Pat Meade  Page 2
Asphalt Cowboy by Al Mehl  Page 2
Cowboy Pottery by Al Mehl  Page 2

N
Full Nelson Shoeing by Andy Nelson  Page 2
Back to My Boots and Saddle by Barbara Nelson  Page 2
Home Ranch Trails by Nevada Slim and Cimarron Sue   Page 3
 

O
R.W. Hampton Presents Oklahoma...Where The West Remains by R.W. Hampton, Rich O’Brien, Enid Symphony Orchestra  Page 2
 

P
She Rode a Wild Horse by Susan Parker  Page 2
The Ghosts of Yellowstone by Myra Pearce  Page 3
Anytime You Want by Ronnie Pfeil  Page 3
The Call (More Songs from The Lonesome Prairie) by Rick Pickren  Page 3
Back in the Saddle by John Pickul  Page 3
Legendary Conversations by Tracy Pitcox  Page 2
Deep in the Saddle by Prairie Rose Wranglers  Page 2
The Last of the Border Cowboys by Gil Prather  Page 2
Romance With The Range by Prickly Pair  Page 3
Pieces of the Past by Yvonne Hollenbeck (with Jean Prescott)   Page 2
 

R
Wild Provence by Lorraine d’Entremont Rawls with J. Anne Lazarus  Page 2
1880s Cowboys by Jim Reader  Page 3
Longing for the Range by Vince Crofts and Mindi Reid  Page 3
Beyond the Brand by Dan Roberts  Page 2
My Personal Favorites Vol. 1 by Natalie Rose  Page 2
Cimarron by Kris Ann Russell   Page 2

S
Montana Legacy by Sandy Seaton  Page 2
Son of the Prairie Wind by Del Shields  Page 2
To Be a Top Hand by Georgie Sicking   Page 2
It's Just a State of Mind ("live" at Tales from the Tavern) by Dave Stamey  Page 2
Old Friends by Dave Stamey  Page 2
In The Shadow Of The Rim by Howard Steele  Page 2
In a Texas Honky Tonk by Hank Stone  Page 3

T
A Country Kid Looks Back by Monty Moncrief Teel  Page 2
Cafe du Swing by Texas Gypsies   Page 2
Ghosts Of Tombstone by Trails & Rails   Page 2
Ranchin' Rhymes by Diane Tribitt  Page 2
Trail Mix by Diane Tribitt  Page 2

W
Red Lips & Honky Tonks by Jerry Webb  Page 2
If I Hadn't Seen the West by Joyce Woodson  Page 2
Bucking Horse Moon, by Wylie & the Wild West  Page 2

Y
Buy American by Farron Young  Page 2
 

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Various Artists
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Two from CowboyPoetry.com Page 2
The BAR-D Roundup: Volume Three from CowboyPoetry.com   Page 3
The Gift—A Tribute to Ian Tyson by various artists  Page 2
Giving Back, various artists   Page 2
Warehouse Tracks by various artists  Page 2
The Heart of Texas records catalog various artists  Page 2

 

 

Rick Huff's Best of the West Reviews appear in Rope Burns

and in the Western Music Association's The Western Way magazine

 

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