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Steve Markwardt – This Is Swing Country

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Steve Markwardt - This Is Swing Country, Yes, “this Is Swing Country,” basically done as Bob Wills would have liked its styling! And I’d bet he would have approved of a Steve Markwardt fronting his Playboys, too. Many of...

Marleen Bussma – Deep Tracks [Book]

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Marleen Bussma - Deep Tracks - , Here comes the companion volume to the Marleen Bussma CD we reviewed last time...or vice versa! A nice part of having poems printed out before you is being able to chew the words...

Patty Clayton – The Real West

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Micki Fuhrman - Westbound, When CDs from Western Music veterans show up….the ones who really have their props under them....it’s cause for joy. Yippee!! A new Patty Clayton album has come! She has long been a noted proponent of...

Micki Fuhrman – Westbound

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Micki Fuhrman - Westbound, From the first notes of Micki Fuhrman’s opening track, I knew her album “Westbound” stood the chance of containing some of the freshest takes of you-name-it that I have yet encountered! It lived up to...

John D. Nesbitt – Trails And Crossings

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John D. Nesbitt - Trails And Crossings, Wyoming’s awarded poet and author John D. Nesbitt has come out with a collection of works that covers a lot of literary territory in visions of the here & now along with...

Eliza Gilkyson – Songs From The River Wind

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Eliza Gilkyson - Songs From The River Wind, Long a treasured performer in the genres of Folk and Americana, smoky-voiced Eliza Gilkyson has brought us a gently flowing Western gift to brighten a dark time. Gilkyson is a self-confessed...

Chris Guenther – American Outlaw Vol. 1

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Chris Guenther - American Outlaw Vol. 1, has applied generous shakes from the Morricone dispenser to flavor this Big West-style collection. Fans of that effect should savor it. The pleasant-voiced Washingtonian plays a staggering array of stringed and other instruments,...

Carlos Washington’s Steel Horse Swing – Party On Piedre Lumbre

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Carlos Washington’s Steel Horse Swing - Party On Piedre Lumbre, In song we’ve heard about fanciful hoedowns conducted under desert stars (and tucked away from prying eyes) by everything from critters to cactus! In Carlos Washington’s swinging creation, it’s...

 K. C. LaCourse – The Journey (of life thru western poetry)

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K. C. LaCourse possesses an animated, rangy delivery that works well to put across her words, and they are words that have a dang good reason to be in the order LaCourse has placed them! Her works in this...

Jim Winters – Yearnin’

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Jim Winters - Yearnin’, Like Riders In The Sky’s Ranger Doug Green has done previously, the smooth lead vocalist of the renowned Kansas band 3 Trails West has momentarily stepped away from those duties in a starring effort. A...

Jim Jones – Good Days Are Comin’

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Jim Jones - Good Days Are Comin’, This solo release from Jim (The Cowboy Way) Jones is another of those that shouldn’t be called a “solo!” He has assembled an exceptional support team, and this CD’s content justifies that...

Janice Deardorff – Sarah’s Quilt

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Janice Deardorff - Sarah’s Quilt, The original songs created and the covers chosen for Janice Deardorff’s six-song EP were inspired by events in the Sarah Agnes Prine book series. They are the creation of Arizona author Nancy E. Turner...

Marleen Bussma – Deep Tracks

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Marleen Bussma - Deep Tracks, has two (or more) meanings here. Here you will hear a Cowboy Poet who ‘gets’ the art of conversational storytelling. If you appreciate that too, Marleen Bussma is for you. We could make her...

Grace Clark – Dancin’ With Swingitude

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Review CD Grace Clark - Dancin’ With Swingitude by Rick Huff Grace Clark’s distinctive contralto voice anchors the Swingitude vocal harmonies into the mellow lower registers of the scale. It’s one of those effects you may come to be able...

Mary Lou Fulton – Will Tell Stories

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Review CD Mary Lou Fulton - Will Tell Stories by Rick Huff In a smoky, expressive voice balladeer/songwriter Mary Lou Fulton tells her quietly powerful stories in song. Family experience, feelings and a combative stance on the current unhealthy rise...

Doug Figgs – Yellow Horse

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Review CD Doug Figgs - Yellow Horse by Rick Huff For his newest mellow acoustic release, Doug Figgs headed for Colorado to work with such talents as Butch Hause, Ernie Martinez, Gordon Burt and others. Likely no other Western songwriter...

Candy Paula – This Train

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Candy Paula - This Train, Californian Candy Paula is a burgeoning Western performer who primarily bills herself as a “Folk guitarist, singer and songwriter.” This instrumental treatment of the old Folk classic “This Train” is a friendly, loose limbed...

Barbara Nelson – Swingin’ Open Range

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Barbara Nelson - Swingin' Open Range On Album #10 from the swingin’ Oregonian Barbara Nelson, her distinctive, rich lady-bass vocals and gentle combo style backup are featured again and, as always, both serve her needs well. CD picks that fall (or...

Chris Mortensen – Ride My Pony

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Chris Mortensen Ride My Pony For Chris Mortensen’s newest effort, ten former bandmates and current friends “join” the Utah balladeer by means of Sire Studio and iPhone XR. The latter is in part a Covid-caused necessity, so the presence here...

The Dan Canyon Band – Canyon Songs

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The Dan Canyon Band Canyon Songs Applying the classic points of criticism (what are the artists trying to say, do they say it well and is it worth saying), let’s criticize. More than trying to say it, The Dan Canyon Band’s leader...
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