National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering

Subject: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: open mike
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 12:16 PM

I'm on the way to Elko, Nevada for the 2008 Gathering. www.westernfolklike.org will be streaming the
main performances next week wed, thur, fri, sat.
check us out...i am camera person so some of the
images you see will be shot by me! yee haw!!
Laurel

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music &
From: Peace
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 02:54 PM

Refresh

Have a great trip, Laurel.

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music &
From: eddie1
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 07:01 PM

Hey Laurel, If you bump into Ernie Sites tell him Big Eddie from Scotland says hello.
Have a great time

Eddie

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music &
From: Sorcha
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 08:09 PM

Better you than me, sister. I just can't stand most of that cowboy poetry stuff. Have fun!

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 12:46 AM

Have fun, Laurel!!

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: open mike
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 01:39 AM

well, it is not all reciting poetry,
there is some good, hot, old timey fiddling..
i think you could find something to enjoy here,
sorcha!

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 12:29 PM

A Prairie Home Companion features cowboy poets and performers fairly often. There's a lot to enjoy at this gathering, I would imagine.

SRS

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 12:43 PM

I'd be there if I could!

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 12:44 PM

It sounds like fun. Yodel at 'em once or twice for me.

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: open mike
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 03:46 AM

little old lady, who?

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: JennieG
Date: 28 Jan 08 - 05:51 AM

Have fun! it sounds like a good festival to go to.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: Peace
Date: 31 Jan 08 - 03:56 PM

Refresh

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: open mike
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 07:42 PM

hey, big Eddie, i did,in fact say hi to Ernie for you!
He told me a story about a Scottish giant he met!!
(you!!)

a reminder that you all can experience the archived stream here on the
cybercast

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 10:46 PM

Laurel, if Riders In The Sky are performing, please say Hi to Ranger Doug for me.

Seamus

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: astro
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 11:54 PM

I would really like to make it up there one year. My older brother always goes and he usually wears one of those gigantic hats like Hoss Cartwright of Bonanza...but, in truth I do love the cowboy poetry. The music I've heard is great too!

Have a great time there...if you see an older gent with a Hoss Cartwright hat on, please say the appropriate words....

Astro in LA...

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: eddie1
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 01:22 AM

Hi Open Mike
Thanks for passing on the message. Ernie is a great guy and musician.
We did a mad gig together in New York when I got paid an extremely large amount of money for singing "Kevin Barry". Turned out the owner of the bar was an ex-cop and most of the audience were cops and Irish!

Eddie

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: open mike
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 04:26 AM

the riders were not here this year. most of the people here wear cow boy hats..10 gallon hats, sombreros, "flat hats" (vaquero style) and others.
It would be easlier to identify someone who does NOT wear one, here!
http://www.hatcountry.com/

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: kendall
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 08:37 AM

Hey Laurel, tell me, was Glenn Ohrlin there? We did a storytelling workshop at the Border Festival in El Paso TX back in 1988. Haven't seen him since.

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: Wesley S
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 10:09 AM

Don Edwards is a favorite of mine. He lives close to here. I just picked up his "Saddle Songs" a 2 CD set. Just one man one voice and a guitar. Great stuff.

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: pdq
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 11:53 AM

I wish they would move this event to May or June. I live in central Nevada, usually a bit warmer than Elko. We got four more inches of "Global Warming" last night. It should get up to 32 degrees F today and go to 13 degrees tonight. Lovely for a good outdoor sing-around, don't ya think?

There is a nice CD recorded in 2004 by Western Jubilee Recording Company L.L.C., item number 80302-01184-2. Some of the players are Skip Gorman, Baxter Black, Ian Tyson, Red Steagall, Glenn Ohrlin, Michael (M.) Murphey, Tom Russell, Sons of the San Joaquin, David Wilkie, Waddie Mitchell, Don Edwards, and even Wylie Gustafson. This CD can be ordered directly from the company in Colorado. The eBay dealers usually add a huge shipping charge that only fools pay.

If it were a reasonable time of year, people could visit the nearby Ruby Mountains, which are just lovely at the right time.

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: Kim C
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 11:54 AM

One of these years I am going to get myself out there!!!!!

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 12:48 PM

Anyone remember S. Omar Barker? Classic cowboy poet -- died around 1985, I think.

Anyway, back in 1962 (when I was about12) I memorized a short poem of his that had run in Western Horseman magazine. Starts out "They asked me what's a rodeo, I told 'em that I knowed / But to put it into language was a job that had me throwed."

Anyway, I quote it reasonably often from memory (twice this weekend, appropriately after "Night Rider's Lament" both times in different company), but I haven't been able to find a copy of the poem and I'm not sure I completely trust my memory.

Anyone have a copy? Know which of S. Omar Barker's books it's in? I can PM the words as I remember them, if that helps.

Thanks!
Linn

Subject: RE: National Cowboy Music & Poetry Gathering
From: pdq
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 01:07 PM

It's suprising how manyf Mudcatters like this type of music. I do. Here is a great place to go for some...

                     http://www.cowboyculturalsociety.com/