Cowboy Poetry & Music!
Sierra Vista, AZ was the site for the 14th Cowboy Poets and Music Gathering (http://www.cowboypoets.com/). I was only able to attend the events on Friday. The first event required driving into Ramsey Canyon to the Arizona Folklore Preserve (http://www.arizonafolklore.com/). What a beautiful place!
This was a big surprise because I wasn't expecting to see one of my favorite western artists perform: Dave Stamey (http://www.davestamey.com/) or Juni Fisher (http://www.junifisher.net/). The are both amazing performers and artists of the best kind. Check out their sites and look around. After you have been amazed, let me know and I'll let you know where you can send the fruit basket to thank me.
Besides both doing a short set of about a half hour, they both were gracious enough to show me some things on my guitar. So, sitting on a porch bench with the towering canyon vistas, they both shared a nugget of wisdom with this sprouting guitar player.
The evening's event started with Patty Clayton (http://www.cimarronwind.com/) and beyond that there is really too much else to tell here. Check out the event's site and you'll get a more in-depth overview.
The more I listen to western music the harder and harder it is to listen to country. It's just the guy I am. The music industry would like you to associate country music with cowboys and small towns. Country music more and more strikes me as a McDonalds: there is so much over processing that goes into making those warm fuzzy feelings that it's hard to feel like a better person after you've ingested it. It's just my personal tastes, I know. But more and more country music resembles Las Vegas and L.A. than anything the roots it mocks. OK...enough of my soap-box.
This was a big surprise because I wasn't expecting to see one of my favorite western artists perform: Dave Stamey (http://www.davestamey.com/) or Juni Fisher (http://www.junifisher.net/). The are both amazing performers and artists of the best kind. Check out their sites and look around. After you have been amazed, let me know and I'll let you know where you can send the fruit basket to thank me.
Besides both doing a short set of about a half hour, they both were gracious enough to show me some things on my guitar. So, sitting on a porch bench with the towering canyon vistas, they both shared a nugget of wisdom with this sprouting guitar player.
The evening's event started with Patty Clayton (http://www.cimarronwind.com/) and beyond that there is really too much else to tell here. Check out the event's site and you'll get a more in-depth overview.
The more I listen to western music the harder and harder it is to listen to country. It's just the guy I am. The music industry would like you to associate country music with cowboys and small towns. Country music more and more strikes me as a McDonalds: there is so much over processing that goes into making those warm fuzzy feelings that it's hard to feel like a better person after you've ingested it. It's just my personal tastes, I know. But more and more country music resembles Las Vegas and L.A. than anything the roots it mocks. OK...enough of my soap-box.
posted by Cool Water William @ 3:02 PM
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