LYNN ANDERSON could sing before she could talk, and could ride a horse before she could walk. It's been that way all of her life ... horses and music. Lynn likes it best when she can combine the two ... like singing the National Anthem at a gallop on the back of a good horse at the 100th Anniversary of the Fort Worth Livestock Show!

In 'Me and Billy,' New Mexico State Chautauqua troubadour Ramblin' Ralph tells of his days riding and fighting alongside Billy the Kid.
Earl has been an active member of the Western Music Association and the Academy of Western Artists fr many years. He especially enjoys singing the old cowboy songs around the fires at the chuckwagon camps. Earl has been writing, snging songs and talking to people everywhere to encourage interest in preserving the historic sites and the songs of the cowboy days in the Old West. Earl's music is featured in three New Mexico museums and one in Texas.
New Mexico recording artist R.W. Hampton was been named 2004 Male Performer of the Year by the Western Music Association . A Western music industry leader for over a decade Hampton has eight albums and numerous industry awards to his credit. Hampton is considered by many to be one of America's few remaining authentic "singing cowboys". His life is guided by his faith, his love for his family, and his desire to share cowboy life with his audiences.
Paul comes from Arkansas , and a very musical background. Bluegrass is where his roots lie and you can hear it in nearly every tune he writes and plays. Along the way he discovered cows and horses, and that started a love affair with the cowboy way of life that to this day is his whole reason for living. He is most happy when he is horseback in open country. “Lookin at the south end of a north bound cow,” as he likes to say it. He tells folks, “I like to think I did it like they did in the old days, I wasn’t ranch raised, but I felt the calling of the west and followed it. Just like the old sayin' about goin' west young man, I did.” Now when you ask him where he is from he will tell you, “I'm from out west somewhere, where the wind meets the wire.” In the early 1990s, Paul "saddled up" and moved to Nashville , but it didn't take long to figure out that a guy with horses and cattle on the brain and in his songs wasn't going to go very far in that town, so he followed his heart. Paul never let his guitar go idle, he took his love of music and fused it with his love of “cowboy’n” and started down a path that has led him to where he is today. Paul is a member of the Western Music Association, and regularly performs around the country at poetry gatherings and "any place that’ll let me get up and play.” He has started writing cowboy poetry as well. “It is a new and exciting thing for me. I am really enjoying writing poetry and I am always trying to improve my writing.” To listen to Paul sing and perform, there is no doubt about his bluegrass roots. His music is also very heartfelt. If you listen with your eyes closed, you can see and hear about the places he has been and the things he has done and seen. He is a storyteller, and can put you right there with him, riding along some canyon, chasing an old maverick steer, waiting for that good shot to rope.
I grew up on Country Music, Western Music, Gospel Music and Folk Music. I began singing in a little country church and at age 14 I got my first guitar. My first performances were for my school classmates and parties. At 21, I was fronting for a dance band that played all over New Mexico, West Texas and Southern Arizona. At 23, I wrote my first song. I also build world class Jumbo Acoustic Guitars and inlay them with real turquoise.
Sid Hausman is a songwriter and cowboy balladeer who strikes a chord for times that hearken back to when most of this country was rural. Hausmann’s philosophy is that songwriting is much like photography; he considers his songs to be musical pictures of both the past and present. Sid blends folk and bluegrass into Western Music that reflects the essence of the peoples and animals of the West.
Jim Jones is a native Texan who headed west to live in New Mexico in 1991. He is a two-time finalist in the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk songwriter competition and has produced 15 albums of his own and others’ music as well as the award-winning children’s character education music video, “You’re Always Welcome.” In 2002, he’d finally had enough of the smoky country bar scene and decided to focus on writing, recording and performing his first love, Western Music.

Born and raised in Harding County, NM, Pete is a composer and entertainer of upbeat Southwestern songs. He has performed his own original and unique brand of music throughout parts of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee. Pete has been invited and has participated in several festivals and showcases including the Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium each year since 1991. Pete has written over 100 songs, some of which are included in his book, "Penning The Wild Ones."
Richard Martin grew up working on ranches in eastern New Mexico’s Canadian River area. He has been a competitive team roper for many years. He plays Americana folk music and many of his songs reflect the country way of life. He has loved and played music most of his life. He has played with many well known country bands in New Mexico and on the road. Richard has retired from Central New Mexico Community College and concentrates on writing and performing his songs as well as many other artists’ songs. Richard has recorded two CDs (Mail Box Money and Bringing Water To The Land) and played at the 2009 Durango cowboy gathering and performed at the crossroads poetry and music festival in Van Horn Texas. He also played at the 2010 New Mexico Music Awards. He lives in Embudo, New Mexico with his wife Edna who accompanies him from time to time. Richard enjoys hunting with his hawk, (he is a licensed falconer), and playing solo and duo gigs around the Southwest. Richard Martin is a winner of the 2010 NEW MEXICO MUSIC AWARDS.


James Michael began performing at rodeos and county fairs as a teenager and has sung and played his guitar for audiences large and small all across the West. His father was a professional rodeo cowboy and many of the songs he performs were learned from rodeo cowboys. He has also written western songs including "Turn To Die", "Lone Cone Peak", "Rodeo Cowboy" and the title song on his new CD "All American Cowboy".
Mike Moutoux makes his home in Grant County, New Mexico where he works on a 13,000-acre cattle ranch. At the JEJ ranch, most work is still done using traditional methods and horseback. Mike has been entertaining since 2002 and this summer produced his third CD, Headin Home. This year, he has been nominated for male poet of the year in the Western Music Association and will perform at their festival in November.

Doug owns and lives on a very remote cattle ranch in the heart of New Mexico. He retired last year from a long teaching and Real Estate career but has owned the LIB ranch since 1988. Doug loves and respects the land and way of life he is now able to live full time. His descriptive, true-to-life, narrative style of writing draws you into his world and passion for ranch life. He began playing guitar and writing some very basic songs at age twelve but only began playing in public about four years ago. To date he has written several hundred songs and has released one album, which received some very favorable reviews from several sources, and has three more in production. Two of those albums are live and one is exclusively about New Mexico but all have a rare and rich sense of "ranch life" which he has become so closely associated with. You will find his work to be genuine and his performances smooth and sincere.
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Jim and Jeanne Martin are a most enjoyable musical duo who perform the full range of cowboy and western music, from the traditional trail songs of the working cowboy, to the silver screen classics of the singing cowboy, and the contemporary western compositions about today's cowboys and an ever popular western lifestyle. Their voices blend in perfect harmony and their championship yodeling is stunning! Their entertainment is complete when they add their brand of family style of cowboy humor.
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