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- Claes Andreasson
For the last twenty years, avid cowboy poetry lovers have gathered in Elko, Nevada. During one week they listen to stories and songs about the hard lives of cowboys and ranchers, and life in the American West. One of the poets invited to the latest Cowboy Poetry Gathering was Ross Knox from Oregon, who told a story about his cow dog:
Featured:
Ross Know, poet
Waddie Mitchell, poet
Pedro Marquez, singer songwriter
Alice Hancock, poet
Carolyn Dufurrena, poet
Hal Cannon, founder Western Folklife Center, Elko, Nevada
Don Edwards, singer
American Buckaroo Orchestra
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For the last twenty years, avid cowboy poetry lovers have gathered in Elko, Nevada. During one week they listen to stories and songs about the hard lives of cowboys and ranchers, and life in the American West. One of the poets invited to the latest Cowboy Poetry Gathering was Ross Knox from Oregon, who told a story about his cow dog: Featured: Ross Know, poet Waddie Mitchell, poet Pedro Marquez, singer songwriter Alice Hancock, poet Carolyn Dufurrena, poet Hal Cannon, founder Western Folklife Center, Elko, Nevada Don Edwards, singer American Buckaroo Orchestra
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Review of Sounds in a Cowboy's HeadGreat stuff entirely. Claes Andreasson does a thoughtful and wonderful examination of a stretch of Americana frequently overlooked beyond Baxter Black. Wonderful interviews, terrific examples of the kind of expanded vision of cowboy poetry it takes either an anthropologist or a non-native to recognize. Ditch the puzzle master on Sunday -- listeners will cheer when they've heard this. |
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Review of Sounds in a Cowboy's Head
This piece leaves a yearning and aching in my heart for something intangible like a moonbeam on a clear night. It's something you can't hold onto but stare into so intensely that it becomes part of your being. Though born and raised in Kansas City, I'm now in densely populated New York and long for free range. Vast wide-open spaces are hard to come by, except in the mind of lucid imagination. When rules for living get too strict, one feels restricted and cowboy poetry allows a loosening of the reins. This is not a story of real life as one lives it, but of our lives when we look back to see what made us. In moments when we abandon foresight for hindsight we find elegance and mystery is in our journey.