Product Description

Recorded live January 2004 at the 20th Annual National Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. A portion of the proceeds from this project will benefit the Western Folklife Center. Humans tend to label and categorize traits and styles. At the earliest stage when we decided to call it a 'Cowboy Poetry Gathering', we simply meant to give folks an idea of what we hoped to celebrate for one weekend in the middle of the winter, in the middle of nowhere, twenty years ago. We didn't know that a 'Cowboy Poetry Gathering' would be as much about music as poetry, but that became apparent as the genre found itself. Comedy, intelligence, emotions, politics, historical to contemporary stories, issues, nature, family and relationships all found they were welcomed. People who have attended Elko or any other cowboy poetry gathering around the country, have accepted this inherently. It's all part of it. 'You can't explain it, you've got to be there.' This is a comment that literally scores of people have told me they use when asked by the uninitiated why they would travel to hear cowboys spew poetic and play and sing the lost music of the West. 'It's magic. It's what I've been looking for my whole life without knowing it.' -Waddie Mitchell

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Baxter on Elko - Baxter Black
2. Ay Ay Ay - Valerie O'Brien, Richard O'Brien
3. Elevator Scale - Rodney Nelson
4. Powder River, Let 'Er Buck - Mary Burdette, Ruthie Dornfeld, Skip Gorman, Patrick Sauber, Tom Sauber, Waddie
5. International Glenn (Whatever That Is?) - Glenn Ohrlin
6. Drover Road to Amulree - David Wilkie, Denise Withnell
7. Hooves of the Horses - Randy Rieman
8. Ragtime Annie - The Hot Club of Cowtown
9. Not Gone - Janine Haig
10. Angels Can Do No More - Andy Wilkinson
11. Doctor Doctor - Jesse Smith
12. Geronimo's Men (45 Horses) - Jon Chandler, Butch Hause, Ernie Martinez
13. One Moment, Please! - John C. Dofflemyer
14. Plains of St. Augustine - Jill Jones, Lone Star Chorale
15. Bizarzyski-Mad Bard & Carpenter Savant of Manchester, ... - Paul Zarzyski
16. Silver Spurs - Jack Hannah, Joe Hannah, Tim Johnson, Bill Thornbury
17. Dream of Spotted Buffalo/Night Song of the Crow - Henry Real Bird
18. Time It Never Rained - Lyn Messersmith
19. Roll on Owyhee - Brenn Hill, Gordie Matthews, Gord Maxwell
20. Things of Intrinsic Worth - Wally McRae
21. Spanish Is the Loving Tongue - American Buckaroo Orchestra, Michael Martin Murphey

Disc 2:

1. We Are the Poets - Virginia Bennett
2. Jerry Ambler - Gordie Matthews, Gord Maxwell, Ian Tyson
3. Square-Head - Walt LaRue
4. Cattle Cattle in the Cane - Ruthie Dornfeld, Patrick Sauber
5. Equus Caballus - Joel Nelson
6. Wild Places - Michael Fleming
7. Saying Grace Is Saying Thank You - Long John Best
8. Hooves of the Horses - Ray Doyle, Wylie Gustafson, Dave Reynolds, Scot Wilburn, Wylie & the Wild West
9. Real Wealth - Peggy Godfrey
10. Born to Be a Cowboy - R.W. Hampton
11. Slant of Light - J.V. Brummels
12. Big Bad Bill - Sourdough Slim
13. Full Value - Oscar Auker
14. Red River Rose - Red Steagall
15. Habitat - J.B. Allen
16. All This Way for the Short Ride - Andrew Hardin, Tom Russell, Paul Zarzyski
17. Rooster Poem - Georgie Sicking
18. Evening Chang - Waddie Mitchell
19. Campfire Has Gone Out - Don Edwards

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22632 in Music
• Released on: 2005-01-25
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Customer Reviews

Elko A CDowboy's Gathering
A lengthy collection and variety of good cowboy music with several artists contributing to the collection

Elko! A Cowboy's Gathering
This made me look to see when the next live gathering will be in Elko. I am planning a trip there to be in attendance for the next Elko event!