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As Reviewed in Cowboys & Indians Magazine
April 2007
"Wylie Gustafson is today's most widely heard cowboy singer, and whether you know his name or not, you've heard him: He yodels the "Ya-Hoo-Ooo" for Yahoo.com
(and had to sue to get just recompense. He's also the real deal: a rider,
a rancher, and a genuine comer as a
musical artist.
With his
latest release, Bucking Horse Moon, he has
established himself as the first giant of the
new pantheon that will inherit, preserve, and enhance the Western music tradition from such current reigning luminaries as Don Edwards, Waddie Mitchell, Red Steagall, Ian Tyson, and Michael Martin Murphey (to name a few).
Gustafson wins such stature with an utterly charming album ably produced by John Carter Cash, son of Johnny and June Carter that hits all the bases with home-run style. Be it genuine Country & Western, cowboy music, yodeling, or his own burgeoning contemporary Western Country-folk style, Gustafson rides the musical range with the assurance of an old saddle hand. He proves himself a distinctive and affecting singer as well as a highly adept songwriter, with one boot firmly in the stirrup of tradition and the other in the stirrup of respectful innovation, gently spurring cowboy & Western music toward its future. And with Wylie Gustafson's sure hands on the reins, the sounds of the ranch and the range have a fine new trail boss to blaze the way for decades to come."
~ Rob Patterson
Cowboys & Indians Magazine
1. Whip out a Yodel
(W. Gustafson, Two Medicine/BMI)
2. Out West
(W. Gustafson, Two Medicine/BMI)
3. 16 Hands
(W. Gustafson, Two Medicine/BMI)
4. Bucking Horse Moon
(Tom Russell/Paul.Zarzyski, Frontera Music &
Bucking Horse Moon Music/ASCAP)
5. Rodeo to the Bone
(Paul Zazyski/Wylie Gustafson, Bucking Horse
Moon Music/ASCAP; Two Medicine Music/BMI)
6. True Love Travels on a Gravel Road
(Frazier/Owens, Unichappell Music Inc.,
Sony/ATV, Acuff Rose Music/BMI)
7. Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
(Johnny Cash, House of Cash, Inc./BMI)
8. Eltopia Yodel
(W. Gustafson, Two Medicine/BMI)
9. Where Horses are Heroes
(W. Gustafson, Two Medicine/BMI)
10. Jodell
(W. Gustafson, Two Medicine/BMI)
11. Old Bull
(W. Gustafson, Two Medicine/BMI)
12. The Carhartt Song
(DW Groethe, Rockin' D Music/BMI)
13. Uber Yodel
(W. Gustafson, Two Medicine/BMI)
14. Whispering Hope
(Ian Tyson/Paul Zarzyski, Slick Fork Music &
Bucking Horse Moon Music/ASCAP)
Musicians:
Ray Doyle - harmony vocals, baritone & electric guitar
Billy Linneman - bass
John McTigue - drums
Hoot Hester - fiddle, mandolin & rhythm guitars
Mike Fried - steel guitars, ukulele
Mark Thronton - gut string, electric guitar
Larry Perkins - banjo
Jeff Taylor - accordion
Juni Fisher - harmony vocals
Wylie Galt Gustafson - vocals, acoustic guitars, electric
guitar, & banjo
Produced by John Carter Cash
Engineered by Chuck Tuner
Second Engineer: Trey Call
Mixed by John Carter Cash, Chuck Turner & Wylie Gustafson
Mastered by Jim DeMain at Yes Master
Recorded May 17-23, 2006, Cash Cabin Studios, Hendersonville, Tenn.
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