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"Westerners" is out!
The new album was released on January 2, 2010.  Available for download!


You can now purchase downloads of single songs at $.99 each, or order the physical CD for $14.95.

 
"Run, don't walk to get your copy of Westerners...it's an album to be proud of, yall"  -Ralph and Tamara, Ralph's Back Porch, WMA Radio Station of the Year

1. I Ride the Range the Modern Way; 2. Show Me Mister; 3. Cattle Call; 4. Cowboy's Farewell;  5. The Cowboy That Made Me Blue; 6. They Call The Wind Mariah;
 7. Common Wisdom;  8. Border Affair (Spanish is the Loving Tongue) ; 9. Don't Fence Me In;
10. Coyotes; 11. Home to You; 12. The West; 13. I've Got Spurs;  14. Watin' For Ice Cream;
15. The Ranch That I Can't See; 16. Happy Trails; 17. Buddy and Me

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Recordings are made for a reason, and the reason for WESTERNERS is our desire to celebrate the American West, preserve its history and honor its people. Proud we are to be native westerners many generations strong, with both our families traveling the emigrant trail in the 1850s and 1860s and establishing themselves in the present states of Nevada, Oregon and Washington.

 The original songs on this recording reflect our personal heritage (The Ranch That I Can’t See, I Ride The Range) and explore possible histories of early western pioneers (Home To You, Cowboy’s Farewell). Prairie Rose Henderson, a pioneer of women’s rodeo who may have been an amalgam of two or more people, captured our imaginations with dramatic tales of her life and death (Show Me Mister, Common Wisdom). Out of pure sassiness we’ve included an upbeat story of western teenage heartbreak (The Cowboy That Made Me Blue) and Bruce’s first recorded original song, dating from the early 1950s (Buddy and Me).  He was four years old.
 

Brand spankin' new for Christmas 2010!

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"Christmas Shoppin At The General Store"
2010 release

Christmas: a time for tradition, family and - - a bunch of new songs? Yes sir and yes m’am, that’s what you’ll find on Christmas Shoppin’ At The General Store.  When did you last purchase a Christmas CD that wasn’t just “business as usual”? Six original songs are featured, including the title cut (by David H. Schroeder) which harkens back to a time when holiday shopping on the Internet sounded like science fiction. Schroeder also penned a take on Handel, “While This Cowboy Watched His Stock By Night”. Theresa Chedoen contributes two songs: “Cowgirl’s Christmas” (a tale of peace and solitude) and “Stable Song” (evoking the rustic nature of the Nativity). Susan Matley recalls the woes of outgrowing a favorite pair of cowgirl boots in “The Cowgirl Who Lost Her Jingle” and celebrates a time of quiet and plenty in “Winter Waltz”. Bruce Matley lends original poetry to traditional favorite “Silent Night”. The estate of cowboy poetry master S. Omar Barker granted kind permission to include Barker’s poem “Three Wise Men” in this project. The CD is topped off with holiday favorites “White Christmas”, “Away In A Manger” and poem “The Night Before Christmas”.

The cover photo (by Imbert Matthee) for Christmas Shoppin’ At The General Store was taken on location at Waitsburg Hardware and Merchantile in Waitsburg, WA, with permission of John and Marilyn Stellwagen (John appears in the photo). This store is the “real deal” complete with squeaking wooden floors and a pot bellied stove where wheat ranchers, cattlemen and other locals gather to shoot the breeze over endless pots of coffee.

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(release date February 2008)
 

"Home Ranch Tales"
Read a review of this album at http://www.cowboypoetry.com/rickhuffreviews3.htm#homeranch
1 Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie; 2 Tumbling Tumbleweeds; 3 Little Joe the Wrangler;
4 Bad Brahma Bull [The Brahma Bull Song]; 5 Green Grow the Lilacs; 6 Danny Boy;
7 Windy Bill; 8 Utah Carl; 9 The Streets of Laredo; 10 Billy the Kid; 11 Goodbye Old Paint;
12 Westward Bound Medley [Shenandoah; Red River Valley; Comin' Round the Mountain]
13 Cool Water; 14 When It's Night-time in Nevada; 15 Carry Me Back (reprise)
 
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This release is truly ‘the good old stuff.’ The songs we’ve recorded range from traditional tunes sung by the western pioneers as they migrated and adjusted to their new lives, to a couple of the best of the early Sons of the Pioneers.  Lyrics for many of the older songs are from the anthologies of Alta S. and Austin Fife, renowned folklorists of the mid-twentieth century, who found that cowboys and other westerners originally sang songs passed down by their families, adjusting lyrics and melodies to suit life in the rugged American west. The couple researched hundreds of songs, building on the work done by the first western “songcatcher” N. Howard  “Jack” Thorpe; Thorpe’s own composition “Little Joe the Wrangler” is represented in the “Home Ranch Tales” song list.  (The Fife collections are now, sadly, long out of print)
On a personal note, a great number of the songs selected for “Home Ranch Tales” were part of Nevada Slim’s childhood on the home ranch in Reno, NV.  Slim’s Dad, the late Wayne C. Matley, himself recorded many cowboy songs; his 1946 recording of “Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie” (along with Slim and Sue’s version) is included on the new CD.
 

(Release date: February 2007)
 

"Herds, Horses & Song" 

1. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky; 2. Heart of the West; 3. The Gift;
4. I Want to be a Real Cowboy Girl;  5. Lope Along; 6. Bessie the Heifer; 7. Trail Drive;
 8. Call of the Canyon; 9. Cool Water; 10.Harriat With a Lariat;
11.The Quarter Horse; 12.Come Riding With Me; 13.You Are my Sunshine;
14.TV Westerns Medley
[Ballad of Paladin; The Rebel; Maverick; Davv Crockett, Rawhide]

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Cowboy music is part of the work, and the dream of the American West. This 2007 release reflects the many hundreds of performances we've played at fairs, festivals, cowboy gatherings, and other venues. What we've learned is that people are hungry for the heritage that this music represents. None want it to disappear. From our point of view, the youngsters need to learn it.  Perhaps the most rewarding aspect of what we do is returning to a fair or festival and hearing children singing along on the classics.
 

(Release date: June 2005)
 

"Whoopie Ti Yi Trail"

1. Timber Trail; 2. Whoopie Ti Yi Oh; 3. Ridin' Down the Canyon; 4. Pecos Bill;
5. Tumbling Tumbleweeds; 6. Little Joe the Wrangler; 7. Blue Shadows on the Trail;
 8. So Long to the Red River Valley; 9. Wind; 10. Ragtime Cowboy Joe; 11. Big Iron;
12. When the Bloom Is on the Sage; 13. The Strawberry Roan;
14. The Sierra Petes [Knots in the Devil's Tail]

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We average about 110 days on the road and 175 shows each year, playing county fairs and cowboy gatherings.   Everywhere we go, folks ask for certain songs, many of which are hard to find.
So here are songs of the west that you've asked for again and again. There's a good sprinkling of successful songwriters like Bob Nolan, Tim & Glenn Spencer, a touch of Marty Robbins and Smiley Burnette, and others.  Many cowboy songs arose from stories told of western work and everyday life, later set to music. We included some of these, the work of cowboy poets now long gone (Gale Gardner, Jack Thorpe, Curly Fletcher). The fact is, whether it reaches us in a purely traditional form, or via the interpretations of the silvery screen, this music is one of the true folk forms of western North America.

"Alias Nevada Slim"

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1. Greenback Dollar; 2. Crazy Arms; 3. Brandy (you're a fine girl); 4. Got This Feeling;
5. In Knots Again; 6. Would You Catch a Falling Star?; 7. Cowpoke; 8. Lovesick Blues
9. Leaving on a Jet Plane; 10. Hey There Hound; 11. Our Last Farewell

Bruce Matley ("Nevada Slim") is a veteran of over 44 years of live performance. Born and raised in Reno Nevada to a pioneer cattle ranching family, Slim spent much of his childhood and teen years in the saddle on the vast ranges of Northern Nevada, in the hayfields, and engaged in the various tasks associated with ranching.

Here is an interesting mix of old country, cowboy, original, and even a folk tune or two.  Take a listen:  you'll remember many of these!