CALLING ALL COWBOYS
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Howdy-hi Buckaroos and Buckarettes!
Welcome to Calling All Cowboys, your source for Western and Cowboy entertainment originating from 106.7 KPOV-LP FM Bend, Oregon. Ride the dusty high-desert with me each week as we explore music, poetry and old-time radio, all with a decidedly Western bent.
You’ll hear tasty tunes from Contemporary Cowpokes like: Riders In The Sky, Don Edwards, Joni Harms, Chris LeDoux, Ian Tyson, Michael Martin Murphey, Sourdough Slim, Juni Fisher, Richard Elloyan, Cowboy Nation, Brenn Hill, Kip Calahan, Patty Clayton, Ben Crane, Jon Chandler, Lorraine Rawls, Bill Barwick, Curly Musgrave and Belinda Gail.
The “Old-Timers” will be in the mix as well yodelling their way through the show: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Rex Allen, Marty Robbins, Carolina Cotton, Tex Ritter, Sons Of The Pioneers, Riders of The Purple Sage, Johnny Western, Carl Sprague, Billie Maxwell, Pasty Montana, Powder River Jack, and Ken Maynard.
If Western Swing is your thing then check out these toe-tappin’ practitioners of Cowboy Jazz: Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, Hot Club Of Cowtown, Craig Chambers, Don Walser, Asleep At The Wheel, Tom Morrell & The Time-Warp TopHands, Junior Brown, Bill Boyd and his Country Ramblers, Spade Cooley, Stephanie Davis, Bob Boatright, and Billy Cate.
Plenty of Cowboy Poetry is thrown in for good measure as well. Fer’ instance: Waddie Mitchell, Red Stegall, Paul Zarzyski, Wally McRae, Yvonne Hollenbeck, Pat Richardson, Virginia Bennett, Randy Rieman, and Joel Nelson.
Ride back through those thrilling days of yesteryear with some of these great Old-Time Radio legends:The Lone Ranger, Red Ryder, Gene Autry's Melody Ranch, The Six-Shooter, Have Gun Will Travel, The Cisco Kid, Frontier Gentleman, Gun Smoke, and Hopalong Cassidy.
I also feature in-depth interviews with some of the top names in the Western genre like: Tom Russell, Wylie Gustafson of Wylie and the Wild West, RW Hampton, Katie Lee, Dave Stamey, and Glen Ohrlin.
So reach deep and find that inner cowpoke, pard, and ride along with me as I take you down trails you never knew existed or have long forgotten.
MOST RECENT PLAYLIST September 1, 2010 — September 8, 2010
(To hear this show look for the “Show Archive” links above)
This week's Calling All Cowboys celebrates the Labor Day Holiday in a big way. Every song is about the hard working men & women who helped build our great nation and who still work outdoors in every kind of weather and under every kind of hardship to make modern life possible. Our featured CD is Matthew Sabatella's release, "Ballad Of America Volume 1" with 5 cuts aired and band & bio info read.
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
Matthew Sabatella is offering a free download of his recording of "Labor Song." He has pulled the verses together from traditional work songs and labor songs and used the tune and chorus of an old coal miner song (All I Want - I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister). The offer is good for one week. There are also three other free songs available at the same web site. http://www.balladofamerica.com/
FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!
Listeners of Calling All Cowboys can purchase "Tortilla Western Serenade," by Tara Linda at a special discount. Just visit Tara Linda's website (http://taralinda.com). Click on the "hear music" link. Where you see "Digital Album- Buy now"- click on it, and input the disount code "cowboys". This system is secure, and you can pick how you want to pay. Get a download of the whole album for just $8 bucks from Tara Linda's website, now thru September 30, 2010.
Hear the song samples at her web site and see if you do not agree with me that this is a VERY interesting, edgy, and creative effort by Tara Linda that taps into vibes very old, and very new, at the same time. Her sultry voice enthralls the ears. Her innovative poetry captivates the brain. Her music sets toes to tapping. Resist if you can— but surrendering to her spell is time well rewarded.
From the Southwest Border Region of the U.S. this is Western music for the 21st century performed by one of the rising stars of Americana music. Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez take note!
Theme Song:
Title: Grand Entry
Artist: "Cowboy" John Grant
Album: Cowboys Paradise
Intro:
Title: In The Good Old SummertimeArtist: Dave Bourne
Album: Saloon Piano Vol. II (2001)
Set 1 The Railroaders
Title: John Henry
Artist: The Charlie Daniels Band
Album: By The Light Of The Moon (1997)
Title: Paddy Works on the Railway
Artist: Colcannon
Album: The Wild West (1993)
Title: Drill Ye Tarriers
Artist: Walt Richards, Paula Strong, Vickie Cottle
Album: Trails & Rails On Track (2003)
Title: Coal Smoke, Valve Oil And Steam
Artist: Tex Ritter
Album: High Noon (2000)
Notes: Bear Family
Set 2 With A Hammer In My Hand
Title: Building a Railroad
Artist: Sheb Wooley
Album: Rawhide-How the West Was Won
Title: Nine Pound Hammer
Artist: Lorne Green
Album: Bonanza - Ponderosa Party Time
Notes: Bear Family Records
Title: The Ole Blacksmith Shop
Artist: Walter Brennan
Album: Momma Sang A Song (1962)
Notes: Liberty Records
Title: Working On The Rig
Artist: Joe Green
Album: Back To The Good Ole Days (2007)
Title: Hard On Equipment (Tool For The Job)
Artist: Corb Lund
Album: Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier! (2007)
Title: Workin' Man's Dollar
Artist: Chris LeDoux
Album: American Cowboy (1991)
Title: William Johnson
Artist: Rick Steber
Album: A Moment In Oregon History
Set 3 Miners, Moonshiners, and Misery Whips
Title: A Pan Full of Dust
Artist: Dave Stamey
Album: If I Had A Horse (2004)
Title: The Old Prospector
Artist: Jerry Brooks
Album: Shoulder To Shoulder (2010)
Title: You gotta to go to work
Artist: Rex Griffin
Album: American Yodeling
Title: I Used To Work In Chicago
Artist: Tin Ear Tanner
Album: Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys: The West Coast Indies (1945)
Title: 50,000 Lumberjacks
Artist: Sons of the San Joaquin
Album: The Wild West (1993)
Title: The Frozen Logger
Artist: Fiddlin' Pete Watercott & Rosie Beach
Album: Folk Songs And Fiddle Tunes, Volume Two (2003)
Set 4 Matthew Sabatella, "Ballad Of America Volume 1"
Title: Once More a-Lumb'ring Go
Artist: Matthew Sabatella
Album: Ballad Of America Volume 1 (2005)
Notes: Slipstream Productions
Title: Ho! For California!
Artist: Matthew Sabatella
Album: Ballad Of America Volume 1 (2005)
Notes: Slipstream Productions
Title: Old Settler's Song
Artist: Matthew Sabatella
Album: Ballad Of America Volume 1 (2005)
Notes: Slipstream Productions
Title: Old Chisholm Trail
Artist: Matthew Sabatella
Album: Ballad Of America Volume 1 (2005)
Notes: Slipstream Productions
Set 5 The Work Never Ends
Title: This Old Hammer
Artist: Matthew Sabatella
Album: Ballad Of America Volume 1 (2005)
Notes: Slipstream Productions
Title: Horseshoes and Heaven
Artist: Kent Rollins
Album: The Bar-D Roundup - Classic and Contemporary Poetry From Cowboy Poetry.com (2007)
Notes: Produced by the Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry.
Title: Full Nelson Shoeing
Artist: Andy Nelson
Album: Full Nelson Shoeing (2007)
Notes: Cowboy Poetry
Title: Dish Pan Hands
Artist: Earl Gleason
Album: They All Went That-A-Way
Title: The Fence That Me and Shorty Built
Artist: Red Steagall
Album: The Bar-D Roundup - Classic and Contemporary Poetry From CowboyPoetry.com Volume Five (2010)
Notes: Produced by the Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry, Inc. From "Faith and Values" (1995).
Title: True Cowboy Life
Artist: Glenn Ohrlin
Album: National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Untitled Session
Notes: 01/29/05 Elko Junior High 11AM
Title: Modoc Indian War
Artist: Rick Steber
Album: A Moment In Oregon History
Set 6 A Cowboy's Life Is A Dreary, Dreary Life
Title: The Dreary, Dreary Life
Artist: Keith & Rusty McNeil
Album: Cowboy Songs (1992)
Notes: WEM Records
Title: Hazards of the Roundup
Artist: Robert Joe Vandigriff
Album: The Cowboy Ain't Dead Yet
Title: Workin' For Dollars
Artist: Michael And Dawn Moon
Album: Land Of The Columbine
Title: Day's Work
Artist: Sam Deleeuw
Album: Women Of The West (2010)
Title: Roustabout's Farewell
Artist: Sourdough Slim
Album: Vaudeville Cowboy (2006)
Title: Workin' Cowboy
Artist: Ken Overcast
Album: Montana Cowboy
Title: The Rancher Feeds Us All
Artist: Don Edwards
Album: Last Of The Troubadours - Don Edwards (2004)
Title: Just Doin' My Job
Artist: Bill Barwick
Album: Cowboy Bill & Other Stories (2006)
Want to explore even more great Cowboy and Western Music & Poetry?
Internet Radio
Joe Baker’s Backforty Bunkhouse
Ken Overcast’s The Cowboy Show
Performers
Skip Bessonette’s Sons Of Oregon
Bob Nolan (Sons of the Pioneers)
Cowboy Entertainer (Various Artists)
David John & The Comstock Cowboys
Poets
For the most comprehensive western entertainment web site on the Internet be sure visit www.cowboypoetry.com. The Center for Western and Cowboy Poetry has assembled a treasure trove of hundreds of pages of biographies, poetry, photographs, gathering reports, memorials, books & CDs, all by and about the greatest performance artists that the West has ever produced. This is a site not to be missed if you are interested in all things cowboy and ranching. Now celebrating 10 years!
Festivals
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Elko, NV
Associations
