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Published By Joe Baker Artist Bobby Flores — Album Eleven Roses Cowtown Society of Western Music Hall of Fame Yellow Rose Records - 2008 Academy of Western Artists Disc Jockey of the Year. Executive Producer Al Michalczak Cowtown Society of Western Music Disc Jockey of the Year Producer Bobby Flores — www.bobbyflores.com Western Swing Music Society of the Southwest Hall of Fame By Joe Baker Membership Director—Cowtown Society of Western Music Board of Directors—Cowtown Society of Western Music He just keeps on shelling 'em Seattle Western Swing Music Society Hall of Fame out, Yes I'm talking about Bobby Flores. His most recent Editor: Howard Higgins project from the Darrell McCall Seattle Western Swing Music Society Hall of Fame archives Eleven Roses shows all the folks exactly what Flores Joe Baker's KNMB Top Western Swing Albums is all about. Just take a look at who’s here, Jim Loessberg, 1. Brady Bowen - In My Spare Time Vol. #5 Jake Hooker, Tommy 2. Billy Mata - This Is Tommy Duncan, Vol. #1 Detamore, Richard Hunter, 3. Rebecca Linda Smith - American Heroes Randy Reinhard, R.J. Smith, 4. Johnny Lyon - Wynn Stewart Favorites Vol. 1 Leighan Cortes, John Stuart, Catie Offerman, Dicky Overby 5. Bobby Flores - Eleven Roses and special guest, fiddler Hank Singer on “Sweet Nellie”. As 6. Hank Stone - San Antone Flores arranged all the strings you can hear his work in 7. Jody Nix - The Fiddle Man every song. My Favorite is the old Charlie Louvin tune that 8. Jerry Webb - Red Lips And Honky Tonks was a big hit for my friend Carl Smith, Are You Teasing Me. 9. Retta Christie w/Evens & Frishberg Another good friend, Darrell McCall And his big country hit 10. Backforty Roundup Vol. #34 Eleven Roses, the title cut on this album is simply 11. Cornell Hurd - Songs Of Moon Mullican awesome. This CD is sure to be in your music library and 12. Johnny Johnson - One Last Time you can buy it and all other Bobby Flores CD’s at www. 13. Brady Bowen - In My Spare Time, Vol. #4 bobbyflores.com or www.BackfortyBunkhouse.com 14. Johnny Lyon - Winds Of Change 15. Kelly Spinks - Thank God For Cowboys Lincoln County Cowboy Ball Huge Success
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1. Joe Green - Texas Original Live successful Cowboy Ball. Alto Lakes Golf and Country Club 2. Chuck Cusimano - Wind, Blow My Blues Away was the host to the sell out crowd for multi-award winning 3. Cliff Douglas - Truckin’ Country Jody Nix and His Texas Cowboys. This annual fundraising 4. Donnie Blanz - From The Wagon To The Wire event for the Sheriff's Posse's has been a Lincoln County 5. Yvonne Hollenbeck - Pieces Of The Past tradition for the past four years. The highlight of the evening 6. Bob & Johnny Boatright - Lost Trails was the Pledge Of Allegiance with Paavo Karttunen, 86 7. Gil Prather - Last Of The Border Cowboys years old. During WWII he was a Finnish Merchant Marine 8. K.R. Wood - Live In The Alamo stationed in the port of Baltimore. He traveled to Carlsbad to 9. Mike Dunn - Somewhere Between Earth & Heaven see his aunt. From he traveled to El Paso and enlisted in 10. Bar D Roundup, Vol. #3, Various Poets the 41st Infantry’s Sunset Division, and shipped out to fight 11. Joe Fisher - Holding On Tight the Japanese for 3 years. In August, 1945, Karttunen led 12. Forever West - Belinda Gail/Curly Musgrave the first military convoy into the Hiroshima blast area where 13. Allan Chapman - Sixth Generation he took the very first photos of the devastation. Karttunen 14. Jim Jones - Different State Of Mind was presented the 4th Annual Cowboy Ball Honorary Guest 15. Sons Of The San Joaquin - WJW. Western Jubilee certificate by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Posse. Mark your calendars now for the 5th Annual Cowboy Ball, December www.backfortybunkhouse.com 12, 2009. A Lincoln County Tradition.
Joe Baker’s Backforty Bunkhouse Show is broadcast on 100,000 watt KNMB, 96.7FM “New Mexico’s Bear” & 100,000 watt KWMW, 105.1FM, “Regional Radio W-105” every Saturday morning 6 am to 10 am In Ruidoso, New Mexico covering New Mexico & West Texas. Member: Western Music Broadcasters Association (WMBA). Also available ’streaming live’ 24 / 7 on the internet at W-105. All Things Country Top Ten CDs The Big Fred Walker Show Rowena Muldavin WOES 91.3 FM Mid-Michigan
1. Cornell Hurd - Songs Of Moon Mullican “THE BIG FRED WALKER SHOW” Internet 2. Miss Leslie - Between The Whiskey & The Wine Radio www.oe.k12.mi.us Wed. 4:00 to 6:00 PM 3. Starline Rhythm Boys - Live At Charlie O's and Sat. 9:00 to 11:00/PM EST. The Gospel 4. Leona Williams - New Patches Show is on Sunday 9:00 AM & 9:00 PM EST. 5. Jake Hooker - Faded Lights For airplay send music to: The Big Fred Walker 6. A Salute To The Heroes Of Western Swing - Show WOES, 2101 Cook Road, Owosso, MI Rod Moag 48867-8927 7. Patty Loveless - Sleepless Nights Top Ten Songs: 8. John England & The Western Swingers - Open That Gate 1. Leon Seiter – Where True Love Waits For Me 9. Bill Green - Dang Those Texas Honky Tonks 2. Bobby Flores – Danny Boy 10. Amber Digby - Passion, Pride And What Might Have Been 3. Jane Morton – Ranch Christmas *Cornell Hurd just keeps 'em coming! His latest release, American 4. Joe Green – Talk Turkey Shadows - Songs Of Moon Mullican, has proven once again his vast 5. Ann Brown – Slow Country Dancing knowledge and respect for the heart and soul of true Country music. 6. Stephanie Davie – There’s No Place Like Home For the Holidays
All Things Country email address 7. Bill Green – Under A Neon Halo [email protected] 8. Jerry Webb – Christmas Time On The County Line 9. Lonnie Burkhart – A Heart Patched Up With Lies 10. Jean Prescott – Each Night At Nine Mike’s Top 10 Picks
Songs: Top Ten CDs: 1. Old Town - John England & Western Swingers 1. Leon Seiter – In The Shadows Of A Honk Tonk 2. Call Back My Heart Texas Moon - Gaylynn 2. Jane Morton – Turning To Face The Wind Robinson 3. Bobby Flores – Eleven Roses 3. Put a Little Texas in Your Swing - Mary Allen- 4. Lonnie Burkhart – Back Down A Country Road Keating 5. Joe Green – Back To The Good Old Day’s 4. I’ll Take the Blame - Price Porter 6. Curly Musgrave, Belinda Gail, Kip Calahan & R.W. Hampton - Our 5. Brownsville - John England & Western First Noel Swingers 7. Stephanie Davis – Home For The Holidays 6. Let’s Make Music in the Country - Mary Allen- 8. Jean Prescott – Embers Of Time Mike Gross Keating 9. Bobby Lueders Band – Still Swinging In Texas WVOF-FM 10. Joe Fisher – Holdin’ On Tight 7. No Way, No How - Red Steagall & Larry Gatlin Fairfield, CT 8. Texas to a T - Carolyn Martin Top Ten Gospel Songs Swingin’ West 9. Are You Teasing Me - Bobby Flores 1. Glenn Canyon – My Jesus Loves You 10. My Last Word to You - Chuck Cusimano 2. T. Jae Christian – I Don’t Care Where You Dig That Hole Albums 3. Justin Trevino – Heart That Will Never Break
1. Open That Gate - John England & Western Swingers 4. Belinda Gail – Detour 2. Something Old, Nothing New - Dennis Ivey 5. Ann Brown – The Blood That Stained The Old Rugged Cross 3. Bluebonnet Lane - River Road Boys 6. Hank Stone – Clinging To A Saving Hand 4. Last Call for Heartaches - Price Porter 7. The Calvarymen Quartet – After A While 5. In My Spare Time- Volume 5- Brady Bowen 8. Curly Musgrave – Thanks ‘Ol Cowboy Prayer 6. Put a Little Texas in Your Swing - Mary Allen-Keating 9. The Flying W Wranglers – Comin Home To Jesus 10. Cowboy Joe and The Babcocks – Brand Of The Cross 7. This is Tommy Duncan - Billy Mata & Texas Tradition 8. Scratchin’ the Surface - Ray Harrison [email protected] 9. The Songs of Moon Mullican- Cornell Hurd Band 10. Still Swinging in Texas - Bobby Lueders Band Graham Lees Top 10 Songs and Albums
Mike Gross — www.swinginwest.com HWD Radio — United Kingdom Top 10 CDs 1. Cornel Hurd - American Shadows Skeebo Norris’ KBAL Top Playlist. 2. Bill Hearn - From Santa Fe To Los Cruces San Saba, TX 3. Mary Allen-Keating - Put A Little Texas In KBAL has purchased additional bandwidth to Your Swing accommodate an unlimited listener base for 4. Earl Gleason - The Drovers our internet stream, everyone is welcome to 5. Patty Parker - Southwestern Serenade tune in 365/24/7...Thanks "The Skeebo 6. Belinda Gail & Curly Musgrave - Forever West Show" 9A-12P M-F KBAL, Texas Thunder 7. Various Artists - The Silver Screen Cowboy 106.1 FM NEW WESITE FOR STREAMING 8. TJ Casey - From Whence They Came www.kbalfm.com / NEW E-MAIL FOR 9. Bobby Lueders - Still Swinging In Texas REQUESTS [email protected] 10. Hank Cramer - Open Range
Top 10 Songs Favorites 1. David Ball - Texas Echo • Bobby Flores - Eleven Roses 2. Mary Allen-Keating - You Belong To Me • Amber Digby - Passion, Pride, & What Might Have Been 3. Marvin O’Dell - Under Montana Skies • Chuck Cusimano - Wind, Blow My Blues Away 4. Earl Gleason - The Railroad Corral • Darrell McCall - The Essential 5. Donnie Blanz - Taking Pictures With My Heart • Billy Mata - This Is Tommy Duncan 6. Lacy J Dalton - Old Dog Blue • Brady Bowen - In My Spare Time, Vol 5 7. Lynn Davis - Are You Gone For Good • Justin Trevino - Too Many Heartaches 8. Belinda Gail & Curly Musgrave - Only A River • Red Stegall - Here We Go Again 9. Marvin O’Dell - Ol’ Gabby Hayes 10. Lynn Davis - Are You Gone For Good • Carolyn Martin - Swing [email protected] www.kbalfm.com LEESWING88 TOP TWELVE CDs BlueHighways TV Offers Texas Music Program Kountry Korral Magazine—Bennerstigen, Sala, Sweden
Hendersonville, TN - BlueHighways TV (BHTV), a cable, satellite and Internet TOP TWELVE CDs network focusing on roots music, back 1 - Bobby Lueders Band - Still Swinging In Texas roads travel and Americana culture, will 2 - Chuck Cusimano - Wind, Blow My Blues Away begin airing the weekly series Texas 3 - Cliff Douglas - Truckin´ Country County Line Tuesday, December 16th. 4 - Gaylynn Robinson - Love & Heartache A half hour musical journey of the Lone 5 - Jody Nix & the Texas Cowboys - Live at Cain´s Star state, the show is hosted by native Ballroom Texas actor Brad Maule, familiar to 6 - Joel Hofmann Band - One More Day television viewers as Dr. Tony Jones on “General Hospital” and 7 - Kelli Grant - Swings & Sings Ashlee Simpson’s father on “7th Heaven”. 8 - Lionel Wendling - Western Swing 9 - Mike Blakely - The Rarest of the Breed “Texans enjoy their traditional country and western swing music, and 10 - Miller Brothers Band - Miller Brothers Band our state is rich with musicians and songwriters,” says show host Brad 11 - Time Jumpers - Jumping Time Maule. “With Texas County Line I take my BHTV viewers on the 12 - Tom Morrell & Bobby Koefer - No Peddlers Allowed ultimate insiders tour of Texas honky-tonks, and festivals, spiced with the famous characters, stories and vintage performance footage of our TOP TWELVE SONGS musical history.” The series is produced by David Stallings of Texas 1 - All Night Long - Jody Nix & the Texas Cowboys County Line Productions, based in Nacogdoches, Texas. 2 - Boot Heel Drag - Lionel Wendling 3 - Call Back My Heart Texas Moon - Gaylynn Robinson The BHTV premiere of Texas County Line on Tuesday, Dec. 16th at 4 - Keeper of the Flame - Gaylynn Robinson 8:30 pm ET, features Country Music Hall of Fame member and 5 - Last Wild White Buffalo - Mike Blakely Grammy Winner, Ray Price’s 82nd Birthday Concert in Tyler, a visit to 6 - Let the Red Barn Burn - Cliff Douglas the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame in Carthage, a vintage video 7 - Shadows on the Trail - Tumbling Tumbleweeds clip of a dapper Willie Nelson singing “Crazy”, the song he wrote for 8 - Spanish Eyes - Bobby Lueders Band Patsy Cline, a video from Crystal Sands, a newcomer who keeps her 9 - Swing Me Back to Texas - Kelli Grant sound traditional to country roots, and a visit to Harlon’s Barbeque in 10 - Waddie Get Your Boots On - Joyce Woodson Nacogdoches, where singer Glenn Lenderman offers up roadhouse 11 - Wind, Blow My Blues Away - Chuck Cusimano country music for patrons and dancers. 12 - Yodel Sweet Molly - Jody Coder
Future offerings in the BHTV Texas County Line series will include: That's it for this time, hope all is well. The weather here is snowstorm Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys, Gene Watson, Eddy Raven, Johnny one day, rain the other, not too fun really. Keep swingin´, Lillies Rodriquez, Billy Joe Shaver, Darrell McCall, Tony Booth, Moe Bandy, Heather Myles, Amber Digby, Justin Trevino, Frankie Miller, Leona Lillies Ohlsson—[email protected] Williams, Ron Williams, The Browns, Leroy VanDyke, Hank Thompson, Fiddlin’ Frenchie Burke, Freddie Hart, Jimmy Dean, Enola Gay Mathews Charlie Walker, Merle Kilgore, Cindy Walker, Leon Rausch, Kitty KSST Radio, Sulphur Springs, TX
Wells, as well as clips from the 1960s Ernest Tubb TV Shows with A western Howdy and a Merry Christmas to all! Jack Greene, Cal Smith, Willie Nelson, Leon Rhodes and others. A I'm looking forward to a much-needed vacation fresh episode of the series will be offered each Tuesday, with repeats over the coming holidays...a time to rest and of the program throughout the week. Check www.bluehighwaystv. reflect, to re-collect one's thoughts and re-define com for the full schedule of days and times and carriage systems. To one's direction...and gather momentum to meet learn more about “Texas County Line”, please visit www. the joys waiting in the New Year. Part of that TexasCountyLine.tv . down time will be spent doing something I really love to do...giving ear to the craft that you Western musicians are sending us DJ's. What a Artist: Johnny Johnson — Album: One Last Time- 2008 joy to receive a packet from the radio station's Producer: Sally Johnson mailbag, and get to meet a brand new artist, or to hear new song Recorded at Robin Hood Studio — Tyler, Texas from an old friend! And isn't music one of the "reasons for the sea- by Joe Baker son"...that joy we find in the "art of sound" that humans were uniquely Johnny Johnson and his family hail minted with? from Perrin, Texas, just north of Christmas being a time for family, I'd like to tell you about mine. My Mineral Wells and West of Fort Worth. son is career US Army, and will deploy for a second tour to Iraq on Johnny grew up in the farming and January 3, 2009. Please pray for our troops. After his send-off from Ft. ranching industry and for many years, Hood, and as a late Christmas present, I'll be enjoying a gift of has been entertaining folks at dances travel...a cruise to the Caribbean with my Farmersville, New Mexico across the country. With four albums daughter! The other three daughters are all Texas-based now, near under his belt, this one really hits high Ft. Worth and Austin. And I have been blessed with 8 grandkids (so on the mark as there are sixteen far!) tracks including 3 penned by Johnny. I have known about these three tunes Come February, I'll have a lot to report, including our Cowboy Chili since last year and am really pleased Contest fundraiser next month for the National Day of the American that Johnny finally recorded them after keeping them under his hat for Cowboy. May your days be merry and bright, and blessed. And may twenty seven years. There’s some western swing, classic country and 2009 be your banner year! some of the best Texas honky tonk music you’ll find today by Johnny [email protected] Johnson and his Memory Makers band. Folks Like Teddy Driskell, Ray Austin, Wayne Campsey, Lynn Groom, James Glenn and the fiddle www.BackfortyBunkhouse.com is the go to website for hard to find legend Bobby Boatright. Backup vocals by Kimberly Green and Robin Western Swing and Texas Honky Tonk Music. Cowboy Music and Brians along with son Jessy Johnson with sound effects. Radio is Cowboy Poetry can also be found on the CD CHORALE page. You going to love One Last Time and you can purchase this and other just might find something You’ve been looking for. Just remember Johnny Johnson CD’s by going to www.johnnyjohnsonmusic.com or BackfortyBunkhouse.com www.BackfortyBunkhouse.com. Email Johnny at: [email protected] Cowtown Society of Western Music Update Around the Campfire By Joyce Miller 1. Still Ridin' - Jim Jones COWTOWN SOCIETY HOLDS BENEFIT 2. From the Wagon to the Wire - Donnie Blanz FOR ALBERT TALLEY 3. Harmonicowboy - Gary Allegretto Sunday afternoon, November 16th, was a 4. The Emigrant Trail - Ray Doyle special day, as Cowtown Society members 5. Measure of a Man - Sons and Brothers and friends publicly showed their love and 6. Ghost Riders, Searchers, and Cowpokes - appreciation for Albert Talley (1999 Hall of Keeter Stuart Fame Inductee) and his wife, Debbie. 7. Follow the Trail - Carin Mari Albert Talley is battling sugar diabetes with 8. Western Moon - Horse Crazy complications from an infection in his leg 9. Longing for the Range - Vince Crofts & Mindi Reid that has moved to the bone. His medical 10. The Silver Screen Cowboy Project - Various Artists bills have been outrageous. Cowtown Society decided to help this hero Marvin O'Dell—Around the Campfire of western music by holding a fundraiser on his behalf at The Finish [email protected] Line club in Ft. Worth.
Musicians and friends of Albert's came out in force to honor and support Album: The Fiddle Man this "man of steel." Albert has played steel guitar all his life. He has Artist: Jody Nix played with some of the best entertainers in the business including Hank Thompson. Gary and I have known Albert for about 11 years now. Jody Nix is back with another CD of 12 He played with several bands at the club we owned for seven years, Big cuts that display without doubt his Balls of Cowtown, and always brought the house down with his Western Swing pedigree. As I have said expertise on the steel guitar. He has always been a good friend and an in reviews of his previous CDs he started extraordinary musician. playing drums as a pre-teen with his dad, Hoyle's, West Texas Cowboys band. He Albert is President of the Texas Steel Guitar Association and a lot of his was one of Bob Wills' vocalists as a friends and fellow musicians came to his benefit that Sunday afternoon. college sophomore for the classic For There was some fabulous music played all afternoon as dancers glided The Last Time album and then formed his around the hardwood floor. CSWM Board of Director, Jerry Tatum, and own Texas Cowboys band upon his dad, his wife, Darlene presided over the door and collected donations. Gary Hoyle's passing. Here again is another Beaver and I served up chili by the bowl and dessert to hungry really top class production from Jody. attendees. Bob Bone, Brady Bowen and Durwood Strube kept the musicians lined up to play and the melodies flowing all day. Chuck Besides featuring Jody on vocals, fiddle and harmony vocals the Cusimano and Carl Vaughan enamored the audience with their songs. album features the great Johnny Cox playing some of the most Leon and Vonnie Rausch came in about 3:30 or 4:00 PM. Leon took enjoyable steel guitar licks that you can only dream about. Jake center stage for a few western swing numbers to the delight of the Hooker is heard on bass and Robert Weeks is also featured on fiddle. crowd. All in all, the whole afternoon was an impressive display of The very polished Rich O'Brien is heard on electric and acoustic musical talent. Albert circulated through the crowd, mingling and jovially guitars and Dixie Hankins rounds out the band on drums and also on harmony vocals. reminiscing with friends. Everyone there was glad to see him and Debbie. Hopefully, Albert didn't over do it. Debbie was a little The album opens with The Hal Blair/Don Robertson composed Hank apprehensive about his standing so long. But, like she said, "he's having Locklin early 60s pop/country crossover hit Please Help Me I'm Falling a good time and enjoying the day." and then goes on to Bobby Goldsboro's With Pen in Hand from a few
Two live auctions, the food sales and donations from so many of years later. Also from the country music world is a great Texas dance Albert's fans, friends and family netted $7,400.00 for Albert and Debbie. hall style arrangement of Bill Anderson's I've Enjoyed as Much of this Thanks to Sherry and Larry Stoody for helping keep track of the winning as I Can Stand and from the George Jones hit parade is Leon Payne's bids and collecting the money from the auctions. If you would like to Things Have Gone to Pieces. From the great Bob Wills is Artie Glenn's donate to help Albert with his medical bills, it's not too late. You can Sooner or Later and Harlan Howard's The Image of Me. Jody also send your check or money order made payable to Albert Talley, to borrows from Bob Wills' great vocalist, Tommy Duncan's Intro years, CSWM, Attn: Joyce Miller, 3709 East Highway 67, Cleburne, TX 76031 There's Not a Cow in Texas and from the pen and library of Red or directly to Albert and Debbie at 2500 West Henderson, Cleburne, TX Steagall, The Fiddle Man. Also included are the late Slim Willet's Tool 76033. Pusher from Snyder and Splinter Middleton's Walking Tall. There are also two of Jody's own fine compositions, the super Texas dance hall Come join us in bringing in the New Year at the VFW in Jacksboro, sounding Sorry, Sad and Lonesome and a country I Entertain Myself Texas December 31st. Dance from 8 pm to Midnight to Brady Bowen with Memories. The album can be obtained off Jody's web site www. and Swing Country including two time Grammy award winner Tommy jodynix.com Allsup, western swing music Hall Of Famer’s Larry Reed, Billy Doshier, Wayne Glasson, Neil Butler, Bobby Boatright, Durwood Strube and Mike Gross, WVOF-FM, Fairfield, CT and www.swinginwest.com Bobby Koefer. Hosted by Joe Baker and be sure to bring an auction item or two as the Cowtown Society Of Western Music will be holding a New CDs At Backforty CD Chorale fundraising auction to benefit the CSWM Museum. Black-eyed Peas and Cornbread provided by the VFW for a small charge. $20 per person Johnny Johnson - One Last Time at the door. For more info please call Joe Baker at (575) 808-4111 or Billy Mata - This Is Tommy Duncan Volume 1 email: [email protected] or call Brady Bowen at (940) 507- Flying J Wranglers - My Adobe Hacienda 1454. Bring in 2009 with the best western swing band in North Central Marci Broyhill - Mending Fences Texas Bobby Flores - Direct From Blanco County Joyce MillerCSWM Treasurer/Secretary Joe Fisher - Holdin’ On Tight Ferlin Husky - Best of the Best Allen Karl - No Place Like Home Don’t Forget To Listen To the Backforty Bunkhouse Show Every Allen Karl - It’s My Favorite Time of the Year Saturday Morning from 6 AM to 10 AM (MST) On The Internet. Allen Karl - Rolling River Just go to www.BackfortyBunkhouse.com and click on the “Listen Bobby Flores - Eleven Roses Live to W-105” logo and it will take you directly to the show. You can Mona McCall - Memories Love A Melody also listen to commercial free previous shows from the opening page Tony Booth - Is This All There Is To A Honky Tonk of the website.
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Backforty Newsletter Welcomes Julie Carter They shook hands and while they were walking up to the counter to The Backforty Bunkhouse Newsletter would like to introduce our write up it up, the owner asked him, "Now, what was it you needed from newest fulltime contributor, Julie Carter who hails from the Lincoln the other side of the store?"
County seat of Carizozo, New Mexico. Julie has two books, Cowgirl "Two feed buckets and a pooper scooper," Jess replied. Sass And Savvy and COWBOYS-You Gotta Love 'Em. The best way to get to know her and her work is to check out her website at: www. "That's it?" blurted out the merchant. "I thought you were going to get a julie-carter.com Julie not only writes everything cowboy and western new hat, new boots and a trailer." Knowing he'd been had, the owner she is also a fulltime staff member of the Ruidoso News and I know wobbled on off, suddenly needing to take his kid home. The girls behind everyone will enjoy her articles and stories. Thanks Julie, for joining the counter wrote up the ticket and Jess told them, "Now, don't you all the Backforty Bunkhouse Newsletter Team. forget me in case I lose this ticket. I'll be back in a little bit to pick up my Joe Baker Publisher saddle when they get the fenders swapped."
The girls laughingly assured him no one in the store would forget him. Buyer Beware; Seller, Too In the meantime, Jess went on down the road and bought a two-horse- Julie Carter — Cowgirl Sass & Savvy slant aluminum trailer from the competition. The holiday season, shopping frenzies, He still had on his trading apparel, but that's another story. sales galore and all that goes with that. The crowds begin to swarm the retail outlets for Visit Julie’s website at www.julie-carter.com and find her books (a the bargain of the century, but let me collection of these kinds of stories) on sale there. caution you about regular-looking cowboy types, wearing worn, tattered clothing, who are out to make a good deal. Andy & Jim Nelson’s C.O.W. Radio
Jess was an honest man, but he had been 4-Week Playlist Playing Catch UP in the cattle business a long time. Long enough to know that when you go trading, a man needed every 11/29/08, Thanksgiving • advantage he could get. That accounted for his apparel when he left Lynn Anderson - May the Trail Rise Up the ranch. Today's objective was to trade a saddle he didn't use for to Greet You one that suited both him and his horse a little better. Both were big old • R.W. Hampton - I Believe boys. He also had in mind to look at a new horse trailer while he was in • Tennessee Ernie Ford - Battle Hymn of town. the Republic • Craig Chambers - The Place Where I The Western store, more than city block long, stocked everything from Worship bling T-shirts to horse trailers. This prestigious place carried quality • inventory and took pride in their customer service. Jess walked in and, Doris Daley - Bless These Hands • as luck would have it, the owner was standing by the front counter. Not New West - Cowboy Blessing a rookie at wheeling and dealing, the owner, under usual circumstances, would have immediately recalled an intervening 11/22/08, Tear Jerkers • commitment when he saw Jess coming. However, this particular day, Kyle Evans - Where the Sweetest Grasses Grow he was somewhat tethered to the spot by his own knee-high kid • Jill Jones and the Lonestar Chorale -The Double Diamond hanging to his leg. "Need to swap you a wonderful saddle that I just • Rex Allen & Don Edwards - There's Nobody Home on the Range cannot use for one that wouldn't be anywhere near this good, but Anymore would fit me," Jess said as he put forth the saddle he'd carried in the • Curly Musgrave - The Men Who Ride No More door. • Yvonne Hollenbeck - The Auction Sale • The storeowner got a gleam in his eye, thinking today might just be the Joe Merrick - The Voice day he could make a good deal with Jess. "Let's see this old saddle you got." 11/15/08, The Fetterman Massacre • Hot Club of Cowtown - Orange Blossom Special Jess allowed that it wasn't really an old saddle - it was one he had • Horse Crazy - Shenandoah won, but he just hadn't used because it was a little small. • Jimmy Wakely - Along the Santa Fe Trail "Well, we can't really sell trophy saddles," said the storeowner, • Pete Laumbach - Granny Held Up the Train "nobody wants something they didn't win themselves." "Got that • Janice Gilbertson - The Ranch Horse figured out," Jess said. "Took that burden off you. I would let your • Saddle Strings - Somewhere in the Middle of Wyoming saddle man back there swap out the fenders on this new wonderful saddle for the fenders on one of your new saddles here in the store. 11/8/08, 300th Show Wouldn't cost you any boot or anything." • Sons and Brothers - Broken White Line
The light went on in the owner's head. This wasn't going to be any • Cowboy Celtic - Drover Road to Amulree easy trade. His inventory in the store included top-shelf, expensive • Jim Reeves -Mexicali Rose saddles. While he was figuring his next move, his kid pulled on his leg. • Jean Prescott - The Boots Her Daddy Wore "Daddy, I'm ready to go home." The trade banter went on awhile, and • D.W. Groethe - The Funeral they were getting pretty close to the finish when Jess threw in the • Duke Davis - Where Do the Cowboys Go comment that he needed a bunch of things from the other side of the store. 11/1/08, Cowboy Ethics
This was where the hats, boots and high-dollar clothes, tack and trailer • Randy Huston - Old Jim accessories were displayed. The owner looked Jess over, noted that • Rod Erickson - Raised that Way his hat was showing some "experience," and his boots had duct tape • Tex Ritter - Hillbilly Heaven holding them together. With that added information and the fact his kid • Journey West - Woman of the Wind now needed to go to the bathroom, he came down another hundred • Geff Dawson - One More Chance dollars on the trade. • Bar J Wranglers - Silver Spurs
They continued jawing a little longer and finally the storeowner set his “Clear Out West” Radio Show heels. Jess then pulled out his ace. He was also planning to look at a PO Box 1547, Pinedale, WY 82941 new trailer that day. The owner caved and offered a figure that Jess already had determined. Texas-Radio.nl, The Netherlands Bill McCallie’s Cowboy Jubilee Radio Show Classical 90.5 WSMC-FM Chattanooga, TN Eddy and Ria Veldkamp’s show can be heard by internet radio from 2 - 4 PM every This month's playlist looks like a who's who in Sunday from WWW.OMROEP-SCHEEMDA.NL Cowboy, Western Swing, Bluegrass and Fiddle music business. Asleep at the Wheel and December 14th Playlist
Chattanooga Choo Choo is always a big request • Tommy Garrett - Texas Our Texas number and we try to work it in at least once a • Cornell Hurd Band - I Can't Help Being month due to our close proximity to Cool Chattanooga Tennessee. Barbara Lamb, who • did some fiddling with Asleep at the Wheel at Bobby Lueders’ Band - Old Fashioned some time in her career does a great tune called Bootsie Met a Bank Love • Robber, and one called Barefoot Nelly. The late Benny Martin does Junior Brown - Venom Wearing Denim • his signature song called Ice Cold Love. Our audience demands a Jamie Richards - Red River Turnaround little thumb and finger style Chet Atkins from time to time. Chet's • Jason Allen - Being Loved Like This Waltzing Matilda and Borsalino are big hits. Carolyn Martin , with the • Smokey Wilson - Blazing Texas Sun Time Jumpers Band doing the backup, do Exactly Like You and When You're Smiling are definitely on the A list. Carolyn, by the ALBUM OF THE WEEK: * RED RIVER BLUE way, is starting a Wed. night gig at the Nashville Palace along with Luke Olson~Sustain Records the Nashville Swingers. I'm pretty close and think I'll get by there to WWW.LUKEOLSON.COM see them after the first of the year. Red Steagall's I Left the Best Luke Olson - Red River Blue Part of Texas in Tennessee, along with Freckles Brown and Dawson Luke Olson - Uncertain Texas LeGate were on the playlist this past month. Red was also Luke Olson - Don't Look Back Now spotlighted on his Faith and Values CD with Long Way From Here to Montana, The Cowboy Church and his poem The Real America were • Wesley Ialacy - Supposedly on our inspirational segment back in November. I got a nice CD • David Ball - Pick Me Up On Your Way Down from Chuck Cusimano this past month and played We Were • Jake Hooker & The Outsiders - Undo The Right Cowboys, What Kind of Horses, and No More Rivers with nice • Floyd Tillman & Leona Williams - Let"s Make Memories Tonight feedback from the folks. Earl Gleason's Rounded up in Glory made • Bob Cheevers - Downhome Backwoods Hillbilly Fool the inspirational portion of the show and Brady Bowen's Maiden's • Bob & Johnny Boatright - I wonder Where You Are Tonight Prayer and The Desperados Lila Lou were also played this month. • River Road Boys - Gone And Left Me Blues We'll have a smattering of Christmas from several different artist • Leighan Cortes - Kawliga throughout the month of December and wind up the month with our • Leon Rausch - In The Misty Moonlight Christmas Special on Dec 21st and our After Christmas Special on • Johnny Rodriguez - You Always Come Back To Hurting Me Dec 28th.
I do hope that you and your family have a great Christmas and your TRAILS IN TEXAS: Tropical Trail New Year brings a bright future for each of you. That's all the news • Clint Black - The Gulf of Mexico and weather for now. You can always tune into The Cowboy Jubilee • Thomas Michael Riley - Red-Neck Riviera Radio Show on your computer at www.wsmc.org any Sunday • George Strait - Maria evening at 6pm est. Those of you within 90 miles of Chattanooga • Bob Wills & Texas Playboys - Looking Over My Shoulder Tennessee can get us at 90.5 fm with our 100000 watt broadcast. • Stevie Dupree - Queen Bee
Remember we broadcast from beautiful Collegedale Tennessee.... Contact Eddy & Ria at www.Texas-Radio.nl Where the Air Always Smells Like a Big Oatmeal Cookie.....Merry Christmas. Bill McCallie
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On the General Store Page Cowboy Jam Session: Western Culture News & Reviews The World According to Baxter Black: Quips, Quirks & Quotes—the by Jeri L. Dobrowski annual Christmas release from everyone’s favorite veterinarian-turned-
December 2008 cowboy entertainer. Baxter describes the delightful little “crossbred Christmas Gifts Ideas: Part 2 collection” of quips, quotes, quirks, truisms, exaggerations, philosophical observations, cowboy humor and perspective–with December 25 is coming, racing as fast as illustrations by A-10 Etcheverry–as a happy book: “It’ll make you or yearling heifers through an open gate. Relax! whoever you give it to happy ... it’ll make us happy, and happiness will Take a deep breath. Do only what really needs spread like cheap wine on a white tuxedo!” to be done; let the rest go. For the harried homemakers amongst you, ask each family I like to think that it is also a handy book. You can read for a few member what one Christmas goodie they want, moments and put it down without worry of marking the page. Pick it up and make only those. You’ll reduce money later and continue reading. There’s no real beginning or end (even though there is a page plainly labeled “The End”). spent on ingredients, hours spent in the kitchen, calories tempting you at every turn, and stress. The 156-page hardback sells for $19.95 + shipping. (Buy two for $39; If you have a few gifts yet to purchase, consider the following: get a third one free; offer expires Dec. 15, 2008). Order from Coyote
Evelyn Cameron: Pictures from a Worthy Life—a documentary film Cowboy Company, PO Box 2190, Benson, AZ 85602; (800) 654-2550; www.baxterblack.com/ about the frontier photographer who left behind 35 years of diaries and thousands of images taken in eastern Montana at the turn of the 20th Also from Coyote Cowboy Company is Baxter’s double CD, Blazin' century. Born into a life of privilege in England, Cameron homesteaded Bloats & Cows on FIRE!, with more than two hours of cowboy poetry on the eastern Montana prairie with her husband. An independent and tall tales. It features such favorites as “Sixty Foot Rope,” spirit, she started a photography business which contributed “Taxidermy Heifer,” plus a personal favorite of mine, “I Know You’ll significantly to the couple’s meager ranch income. Produced by John Miss This Man.” It sells for $24.95 + shipping. Twiggs for KUFM/Montana PBS, UM Missoula—and airing on Public Television Stations nationwide—it is exceptional! Mike’s Top Picks For 2008 The documentary is available as either a DVD or VHS (be sure to specify) for $24.95. Order from The Evelyn Cameron Foundation, PO Songs: Box 497, Terry, MT 59349; (406) 635-4966; www.evelyncameron.com. 1. Texas to a T - Carolyn Martin Also available from the foundation is Photographing Montana, Donna 2. I Left the Best Part of Texas in Tennessee - M. Lucey’s book showcasing more than 150 of Cameron’s photos Red Steagall taken between 1890-1920. Send $44.95 for the softcover; $67.95 for 3. Let’s Make Music in the Country - Mary Allen- the hardback. Keating
Houlihan: the Cowboys of Montana and Wyoming—fourth in The 4. Here in Old Ft. Worth - Jerry Webb Vaquero Series by filmmakers Susan Jensen & Paul Singer, detailing 5. Lost My Baby Blues - Reid Wells & Segovia the history and regional differences among America’s cowboy cultures. 1862 Released in May 2008, and running 95 minutes, there’s scenery to 6. Old Town - John England & Western Swingers Mike Gross 7. Call Back My Heart Texas Moon - Gaylynn please the eye and Western music for the ear. Previously released WVOF-FM Robinson were #1 Tapadero (California vaquero), #2 The Remuda (Great Basin Fairfield, CT buckaroo), and #3 Holo Holo Paniolo (Hawaiian cowboy). A fifth title, Swingin’ West 8. Your Love Fits Me - Lionel Wendling released December 5, 2008, is #5 Los Primeros (first vaqueros; filmed 9. Happy Daze - Chuck Cusimano 10. Put a Little Texas in Your Swing - Mary Allen-Keating in Spain, Mexico, and throughout the American West).
Individual DVD titles sell for $21.95 in the US (shipping included); Albums $22.95 in Canada; $28.95 Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Order 1. Scratchin’ the Surface - Ray Harrison from J&S Productions, PO Box 91560, Santa Barbara, CA 93190; 2. Here We Go Again - Red Steagall & Friends (805) 695-0164; www.tapadero.com. Purchase all five (Tapadero, 3. Put a Little Texas in Your Swing - Mary Allen-Keating Remuda, Paniolo, Houlihan, Los Primeros) for $90 US, $95 in Canada, 4. Bluebonnet Lane - River Road Boys and $105 in Europe, Australia, New Zealand. Or, find a store that sells 5. Don’t Ever Take Our Picture Down - River Road Boys the series: www.tapadero.com./html/locations.html. 6. Open That Gate - John England & Western Swingers 7. Swing - Carolyn Martin Southwestern Souvenirs—a relaxing and nostalgic collection of guitar 8. Something Old, Nothing New - Dennis Ivey music by Rich O’Brien. Himself a member of the Western Swing 9. Jumpin’ Time - Time Jumpers Society Hall of Fame, the CD won the prestigious Wrangler Award 10. The Enchanted Steel Guitar of Lionel Wendling - Western Swing from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. You’ll find “Wheels,” “Blue Skirt Waltz,” and the theme to “Gunsmoke,” with lyrics sung by Don Mike Gross — www.swinginwest.com Edwards. See the full track listing and listen to three samples at www. westernjubilee.com/SouthwesternSouvenirs.htm.
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Pieces of the Past—a CD by South Dakota ranchwife, Yvonne I would like to extend a very Merry Christmas and a Hollenbeck, featuring songs by Jean Prescott. This 15-track collection Thank You for everyone who participated in our is the 2008 Cowboy Poetry CD of the Year as presented by the Newsletter and our Roundup Compilation this past year. Western Music Association. Hollenbeck and Prescott each bring considerable talent to the project produced by Rich O’Brien. The down- It has been our best one yet. The Newsletter now has home subjects range from “Grandma’s Homemade Apron” to “The over 630 subscribers and the Roundup Compilation goes Little Red Geranium.” out to over 170 stations in the US and Canada and is Send $18.50 to Yvonne Hollenbeck, 30549 291st Street, Clearfield, SD downloadable to over 60 overseas stations. 57580; (605) 557-3559; www.YvonneHollenbeck.com. Listen to “Prairie Patchwork” from the CD at www.yvonnehollenbeck.com/books. Thanks for a good year..! html. Joe Baker