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Bucking Horse Moon

Wylie has made many contributions to cowboy music, and with this CD he's put another good one in the barn. There is no doubt Wylie is one of the best singers no matter the genre. What sets him apart from most of the herd, is he's a 24 caret cowboy. He lives his songs in real life and I'd be plumb proud to trail with him.
Eddie Kilroy Program Director "Willie's Place" XM Radio

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
(T.Russell/ P.Zarzyski, Frontera Music, Bucking Horse Moon Music/ ASCAP)
5.  Rodeo to the Bone
(Zazyski/ 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
(J. 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
(Tyson/ 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, and rhythm guitars

Mike Fried- steel guitars, ukulele

Mark Thronton- gut string, elec. Guitar

Larry Perkins- banjo

Jeff Taylor- accordion

Juni Fisher- harmony vocals

Wylie Galt Gustafson- vocals, acoustic guitars, elec. guitar, banjo

 

Produced by John Carter Cash

Engineered by Chuck Tuner
Second Engineer: Trey Call

Mixed by: John, Chuck & Wylie

Mastered by Jim DeMain at Yes Master

Recorded May 17-23, 2006 at Cash Cabin Studios, Hendersonville, TN
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Cowboy Ballads & Dance Songs

1. Old Chisholm Trail
This song is from the earliest years of the Texas-to-Kansas cattle drives. Only one cowboy singer has learned all 145 verses, and he was shot before he finished singing them. Wylie learned the words from his dad and added the "Wild West" dance beat that his band has become known for.
Anon/ Public Domain/ 3:11
2. Ten Thousand Cattle
Owen Wister wrote this as 10,000 Cattle Straying for a 1904 Broadway play based upon his famous Western novel, The Virginian. That book served as a template for all the Western novels that followed. Wister was a Philadelphia lawyer who came West for his health in 1885. Like his Harvard classmate and lifelong friend Theodore Roosevelt, Wister spent most of his time in the East but was an ardent advocate of Western life. Josh Kohn found this fine version of his song for Wylie.
Owen Wister/ Public Domain/ 3:25
3. Sierry Peaks
Originally entitled Sierry Petes, this grand tale about two inebriated cowboys tying up the Devil and branding, dehorning, and tying knots in his tail, was composed by Arizona cowboy Gail Gardner.
Gail wrote it on the Santa Fe Limited while on his way East to join the Army for World War I. Spread across the West by cowboy singers, it became a favorite. By the 1930s song stealing entertainment cowboys and folklorists were arguing about its origins. Gail suggested to one eminent song-collecting folklorist that he didn’t “…know which end of a horse the hay went in, or which end of a cow got up first.” Gail became Postmaster at Prescott , Arizona , and a beloved citizen of that place.
The melody used here is appropriately from The Wreck of The Old Ninety-Seven, still another song with origins much disputed by song stealers, lawyers, and folklorists. A more common melody is Polly Wolly Doodle, the tune Gail’s friend Billy Simon applied to his poem.

Wylie’s Dad, Rib Gustafson, recalls an ancient wind-up gramophone that had been left in a bunkhouse when he was in his teens, working as a wrangler. On that disc was Gail’s great song, and it was the first song that Wylie learned from Rib.
Gail I. Gardner/ Public Domain/ 4:49
4. Cattle Call
This is another one from Dad. Tex Owens composed it in 1934, and was the first to record it. The melody combines portions of at least three older waltzes, The Morning Star Waltz, The Sparrow Waltz, and The Reaves Waltz.
This song was recorded live. We caught Wylie rehearsing with just his guitar, and it sounded so good that the gang insisted that he do without help or any secret recording weapons.
Tex Owens/ ©1943, © Renewed Forster Music Publisher Inc. (ASCAP)/ 2:58
5. Desert Blues
Wylie got this Blue Yodeler gem from Rodgers pal Cliff Carlisle, who recorded it in 1930. Rodgers was fascinated by some of the habits and exploits of Chief Buffalo Nickel, but you’ll have to wait for the book Wylie has not yet started to write to learn about those.
Jimmie Rodgers/ Peer International Corp. (BMI)/ 3:11
6. My Home’s In Montana
In his fine book about cowboy songs, The Hell-Bond Train ( University of Illinois Press ), cowboy singer and scholar Glenn Ohrlin tells that the first verse of this song is from Margaret Larkin’s 1931 book, The Singing Cowboy. It was re-written and expanded by Boston-based educational publishers, Ginn and Company to create a kid’s song once printed in Montana schoolbooks. The melody is much the same as The Cowboy’s Lament, an earlier version of The Streets of Laredo. Ray Doyle is singing harmony with Wylie.
Public Domain/ 2:52
7. Cannonball Yodel
Among the greatest of yodelers was Elton Britt (1912-1972) who composed this fine song, basing the melody upon the Cannonball Blues/Cannonball Rag cycle of tunes performed by the Muhlenberg County (Kentucky) thumbpicking guitarists (most notably Merle Travis), and the turn-of-the-century murder ballad, Mister McKinley.
Elton Britt/ Billy Bell/ Lou Shelly/ Mickey Stoner/ R.F.D. Music Publishing Co. Inc. (ASCAP)/ 3:22
8. The Strawberry Roan
Surely the funniest and among the most beloved of cowboy composers was Californian Curly Fletcher, who wrote this great tale in 1915. Wylie, of course, got it from his father.
Curly Fletcher/ Public Domain/ 4:04
9. Good-Bye Old Paint
Texan Jess Morris was a cowboy on the famed XIT Ranch. He learned this song from black cowboy and ex-slave Charley Willis, who worked for his father after the Civil War. Charley went up the trail to Wyoming , probably in 1871, and on that drive learned Old Paint. Jess was age 7 when he learned the song from Willis.
Later Jess learned to play the fiddle, and John A. Lomax recorded him for the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in 1942, singing Old Paint and played a droning cross-keyed accompaniment on his fiddle. It was Jess who launched the modern tune and its many variations. His recording is still available on a Library of Congress CD.
The Folklife Center also has a fine correspondence file between Jess Morris and his congressman, then Lyndon B. Johnson.
It is fitting that a Texas gal from a Texas cowboy family is singing with Wylie. She is Cheryl White, a member of The Whites, and her great-great-grandma was one of the founders of the Cowboy’s Christmas Ball.

Charley Willis/ Jess Morris/ Public Domain/ 4:04
10. The High Toned Dance
Like many other cowboy songs, this one was first a poem. It was written by Denver newspaperman James Barton Adams, and published in his 1889 book, Breezy Western Verse. Somewhere down the trail it acquired a melody, and John A. Lomax included it as The Cowboy’s Dance Song, in his 1919 book, Songs of The Cattle Trail and Cow Camp.
Great cowboy singer Glenn Ohrlin probably helped give it its current form by recording it twice. Wylie heard it first from his Dad, but knows other versions. Wylie and the boys felt that a song about a dance needed a strong dance rhythm, and found one for this classic.

James Barton Adams/ Public Domain/ 3.44
11. The Streets of Laredo
This song has origins in the misty past as a British broadside ballad. (Meaning that the words were once sold on a single printed sheet, perhaps on Grub Street in London , for a penny or half penny.) The title then was The Unfortunate Rake, about a young soldier dying of syphilis. That song was later reworked into another broadside ballad, The Bad Girl’s Lament, about a young lady who made a poor career choice.
Captain Grose thought it “old” in 1785, so it could date to as early as the first European VD pandemic in the 16 th century.
Yes, we realize the melody is almost the same as My Home’s in Montana. But it is a truly great melody and Wylie thought it would be good to honor the memory of those who have been shot or made poor career choices.

Anon/ Public Domain/ 3:40
12. The Musket Came Down From the Door
Wylie got this uptempo song from Sourdough Slim who learned it from a recording by the Hoosier Hotshots, a music, comedy and touring band based at Chicago ’s National Barn Dance in the 1940s. Written by two of the Hotshots, it celebrates revenge, long a topic of interest to a portion of the citizenry.
Bickley (Bix) Reichner/ Moe Jaffe/ ©1944 Renewed © Malvern Music Co./ Universal-MCA Music Pub. (a division of Universal Studios Inc.) (ASCAP)/ 2:37
14. Goodnight, Irene
African-American composer Gussie L. Davis (1862-1889) wrote this song for Haverly’s Minstrels in 1886. Davis wrote other songs that entered the folk and traditional song repertoire: The Maple On The Hill, In The Baggage Coach Ahead, and Footprints In The Snow, among others.
Haverly or some other minstrel troupe apparently carried his song to the Texas-Louisiana countryside where it began circulating in oral tradition. It was improved by this process, and came to the person who made it famous, Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly), via his uncle, Terrell Ledbetter.
Leadbelly had a bodacious career in crime in Texas , Louisiana , and New York , and was in prison in 1933 when first recorded by John A. and Alan Lomax. But he followed them to New York shortly afterwards, and became a favorite singer on the budding New York folk song circuit. He added verses and made improvements in this, his most successful song, throughout his public career.
That’s Ray and Cheryl in the trio with Wylie. And, of course, Wylie got the song from his Dad.

Huddie Ledbetter/ John A. Lomax/ TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc. (BMI)/ 2:50

Joe Wilson

(with thanks to my song wonk friends Charlie Seemann, Captain Francis Grose, Glenn Ohrlin, Josh Kohn, Kelcey Kalumbula, Gus Meade, Dick Spottswood, and Jake D. James)
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Hooves of the Horses

1. Hooves of the Horses
(W. Gustafson/ William Ogilvie) Two Medicine Music, BMI
2. I Grab My Saddle Horn and Blow
(Bob Nolan) Unichappel Music ASCAP
3. Out Here
(W. Gustafson) Two Medicine Music, BMI
4. Equus Caballus
(Joel Neslon/ W. Gustafson) Two Medicine Music, BMI
5. Leather Lover
(W. Gustafson) Two Medicine Music, BMI

6. A Good One
(W. Gustafson) Two Medicine Music, BMI
7. Luther Played the Boogie
(J. Cash) House of Cash, Inc. (BMI)
8. Marie
(W. Gustafson) Two Medicine Music, BMI
9. Manalito
(W. Gustafson) Two Medicine Music, BMI
10. Everyday
(Holly/ Petty) Peer Music (BMI)
11. Mmm…Montana
(W. Gustafson) Two Medicine Music, BMI
12. Saddle Broncs and Sagebrush
(Paul Zarzyski/ W. Gustafson) Bucking Horse Moon Music/ Two Medicine Music, BMI
13. Happy Rovin’ Cowboy
(Bob Nolan) Unichappel Music ASCAP
14. The Sky Above, The Mud Below
(Thomas G. Russell) Frontera Music, (ASCAP) admin: Bug Music
15. 76 with a Miss
( W. Gustafson) Two Medicine Music, BMI
16. Rockabye Lullabye
(W. Gustafson) Two Medicine Music, BMI

Ray Doyle- harmony vocals, guitar, baritone guitar
Duane Becker- steel guitar, dobro
Hoot Hester- fiddle, mandolin, rhythm guitar
Dennis Crouch- acoustic bass
John McTigue III- drums
Mark Thornton- electric guitar, gut string guitar
Jimmy Clark- trumpet
Wylie Galt Gustafson- vocals, acoustic guitar

Produced by Wylie Galt Gustafson
Engineered by Mark Thornton
Mixed by Mark & Wylie
Recorded December 2003 Sidekick Sound Studios in Madison, TN

Official Website: www.wyliewebsite.com

E-mail: yodeler@pionnet.com

Special thanks to:
The Gustafson and Broeckel families, Victoria Watt Warshaw, Scott O’Malley & Associates, Chris Jenkins Guitars, Mike Conklin Guitars, Crafters of Tennessee Guitars, Tacoma Guitars, Gore Elixir Strings, Tomkins Electric Guitars, and Carhartt.
Photo credits:
Back Cover:
Mark MacLeod
Wylie Cutting in BC: Barbara Glazer
Wylie headshot with guitar: Bill Watts

We take heed of where western music came from ...and do our best to rein it down an un-traveled trail. Enjoy!

Wylie
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Paradise

"A walkin', talkin', singin', strumming', yodein' ambassador of all things western, Wylie Gustafson never fails to convey both the exhilarating possibilities and trying obstacles of the dusty plains that he calls home. With a voice as warm as a Montana sunset and a band equally versed in western swing, rockabilly, honky-tonk, and classic cowboy balladry, Wylie and the Wild West are riding high on Paradise. A varied collection of rousing two-steps, lonesome laments, and luscious lullabies, Wylie's fifth album stands as a masterful chronicle of open spaces: from the mountains' inspiring majesty to the longing that a cowboy feels on the long rides away from home. Listening to Paradise means hopping in the saddle for a ride with one of the giants of contemporary western music. Climb in and hold on!"
--Brad San Martin, music writer

"Each collection of Wylie's music proves that he just keeps getting better. As it happens, he works in a little more variety, more variations in approach and arrangement. He's not just one of the best two or three yodelers breathing anymore, he's grown as a musician and a writer. As a bonus, the band proves that western swing is more than alive and well, it's dang near nuclear powered here."
--Gary Vorhees- Western Horseman Magazine

Recorded at the Ol' Bunkhouse Studio, Nashville, TN
Produced by Wylie Gustafson
Engineered & mixed by Mark Thornton
Photography by Jaclyn Larson

Ray Doyle - electric guitar, baritone guitar, harmony vocals
Duane Becker - pedal and dobro guitars
Wylie Gustafson - vocals, acoustic guitar
Mark Thornton - electric guitar, gut string guitar
Dennis Crouch - upright bass
John McTigue III - drums
Hoot Hester - rhythm guitar, fiddle, mandolin
Jeff Taylor - accordion

1. saddle bum 2:51
2. swinging on a star 2:09
3. whoop-up trail 2:26
4. to her 3:51
5. when i'm ridin' i'm right 2:26
6. without you 3:01
7. hooked on honkey tonk 2:25
8. paradise 1:59
9. lonely yukon stars 2:55
10. the gal who invented kissin' 2:00
11. girl from the north country 3:52
12. yodel boogie 2:38

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Ridin' the Hi-Line

"Whether you like a song that'll take you ridin' rockin' rollin' down the trail, or for a more gentle ride under a big Montana moon, the yodelin' cowhand has gathered up some mighty fine songs that can be turned loose on anyone who enjoys and appreciates good honest music... these are songs that I'll guarantee will have you yodlein' your blues away!"
--Don Edwards, western singer

Every once and a great while, the real deal comes along. Wylie is indeed just that. Whether he's belting out an up-tempo yodel, or singing a heartfelt ballad, his sincerity, talent, and dedication to the art form make him one of the most believable artists in country music. Wylie's recordings and his music overall, underscore that there's a lot more to country music than just what's being heard and played on Top 40 radio.
-- Eddie Stubbs, WSM Grand Ole Opry Announcer, Nashville, TN

Recorded at the Ol' Bunkhouse Studio, Nashville, TN
Produced by Wylie Gustafson
Engineered & mixed by Mark Thornton
Photography by Bill Watts

Ray Doyle - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, harmony vocals
Duane Becker - pedal and lap steel guitars
Wylie Gustafson - vocals, acoustic guitar
Mark Thornton - electric guitar, gut string guitar
Dennis Crouch - upright bass
John McTigue III - drums
Hoot Hester - rhythm guitar, fiddle, mandolin, whistler on "Down the Trail"
Joni Harms - duet and harmony vocals
Sam Levine - clarinet
Robby Turner - pedal steel
Ranger Doug - duet vocals

1. Yodeling Cowhand 2:39
2. Ridin' the Hi-Line 3:20
3. Doggone Cowboy 2:55
4. Montana Moon 3:53
5. Yodeling My Blues Away 3:03
6. Down the Trail 2:36
7. Jitterbug Boogie 2:37
8. Ridn' Rockin' Rollin' 2:19
9. He's a Cowboy 3:08
10. The Gather 3:03
11. The Dusty Cafe 2:00
12. Sage & Sand 2:38
13. Buffalo Gals 2:36
14. Odessa Yodel 1:49
15. Ol' Coyote 2:57

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Total Yodel!

"Nobody likes good yodelin' but the folks and there's folks everywhere and I don't think there is anyone today that can top Wylie's yodelin' ability. There are several different yodelin' styles and ol' Wylie has got em all down pat. He'll give you some Jimmie Rodgers, Elton Britt, Slim Whitman, Hank Williams, Roy Rogers, and once in a while he'll get high enough to sound a little like Patsy Montana and Rosalie Allen. Total Yodel! is a collection of classic yodelin' songs and some real dandies that Wylie has written. If you like good singin'...good yodelin'...and good songs Total Yodel! is one more you need in your collection."
--Larry Scott/WBAP, Fort Worth, Texas

Yodeling... something you just don't get to hear much of nowadays. A lost art that deserves to be resurrected and echoed far and loud. It was born somewhere in the Bavarian Alps and somehow ended up on American shores dressed up in the form of a Jimmie Rodgers verse-ending refrain, an Elton Britt stratospheric free-for-all, or a tearful Slim Whitman vocal break. It can be happy, it can be lonesome... it's always soulful. On a cool autumn day in Nashville, the band and I holed up in a cozy studio and laid down an album's worth of the stuff that good ol' country & western music is made of. Hope ya like it!
--Wylie

Recorded at the Ol' Bunkhouse Studio, Nashville, TN
Produced by Wylie Gustafson
Engineered & mixed by Mark Thornton
Photography by Bill Watts

Wylie Gustafson - vocals, acoustic guitar
Mark Thornton - electric guitar, gut string guitar
Dennis Crouch - upright bass
John McTigue III - drums
Carco Clave - steel guitar
Renae Truex - fiddle

1. Ol' Montan 2:58
(Wylie Gustafson) BMI
2. Rose-Marie 3:12
(Friml, Hammerstein, Harbach) ASCAP
3. When the Cactus is in Bloom 2:43
(J. Rodgers) BMI
4. Big Sky Lullaby 2:22
(Wylie Gustafson) BMI
5. Lovesick Blues 2:34
(Friend, Mills) ASCAP
6. Teardrops in my Heart 2:49
(V. Horton) ASCAP
7. Blue Yodel No. 1 - T for Texas 3:29
(J. Rodgers) BMI
8. Chime Bells 2:47
(Miller, Britt) ASCAP
9. Waiting for a Train 2:42
(J. Rodgers) BMI
10. Cowpoke 3:32
(S. Jones) ASCAP
11. Yodeling Fool 3:27
(Wylie Gustafson) BMI
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Way Out West

From out of the west, with the thunder of hooves, a cloud of dust, and a stratospheric yodel come Wylie and the Wild West, blending the cowboy sound of the 40s, the rockabilly of the 50s, the California hard-country sound of the 60s, tossing in a little Texas shuffle and coming up with a unique and personal style Wylie calls contemporary traditional, but which is just clearly his own: music from the planet Wylie.
--from the liner notes by Ranger Doug, Riders in the Sky

Produced by Ray Benson for Bismeaux Productions.
Executive Producer: Joan Cohen
Recorded at Bismeaux Studios, Austin, TX.
Engineered by Larry Seyer and Frank Campbell
Assisted by David Gatz, Alan Crider, Brian Davis and Chris Downey.
Mixed by Larry Seyer
Mastered by David Glasser at Airshow, Springfield, VA.
Photography by Bill Watts
Design by Nancy Given
Notes by Ranger Doug.

The Band:
Wylie - vocals & bass guitar
Mike Fried - steel guitar, Dobro, baritone, electric and acoustic guitars
Ray Doyle - harmony vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, mando-guitar
Larry Mitchell - drums

Guest Musicians:
Clint Stong - electric guitar ("Give Me a Pinto Pal," "I Still Get a Thrill," "I Remember You," "Jingle, Jangle, Jingle"), acoustic guitar ("Jingle, Jangle, Jingle"). Clint uses E-Z Chord.
Floyd Domino - piano ("I Still Get a Thrill," "I Remember You," "Jingle, Jangle, Jingle")
Tim Alexander - piano ("I'm Your Man," "Hello Heartache," "Heartaches, Tears & Misery," "Sidewalks of L.A."), accordiaan ("Rain, Rain," "Give Me A Pinto Pal")

1. Hello Heartache 3:32
(Wylie/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
2. Jingle, Jangle, Jingle
3:18 (Loesser-Lilley/Paramount Music, ASCAP)
3. Heaven 3:25
(Wylie/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
4. Rain, Rain 2:32
(Jones-Richardson-Miller/Trio Music Co., Inc.-Fort Knox Music, BMI)
5. Sidewalks of L.A. 4:14
(Wylie/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
6. Girl on the Billboard 3:04
(Haines-Mills/Moss Rose, BMI)
7. Give Me a Pinto Pal 2:15
(Miller-Markes, MCAA, Inc., ASCAP)
8. I Remember You 2:58
(Mercer-Schertzinger/Paramount Music, ASCAP)
9. I'm Your Man 2:41
(Wylie/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
10. Heartaches, Tears & Misery 3:36
(Wylie/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
11. Fill It Up 2:35
(Morris-McKnight/aTV Music, ASCAP)
12. I Still Get A Thrill 3:14
(M. Marguicci-Wylie/Matoots Publishing Co.-Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
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Cattle Call- Songs of the Wild West

Recorded at the Ol' Bunkhouse Studio, Nashville, TN
Produced by Wylie Gustafson
Engineered & mixed by Mark Thornton
Wylie Galt Gustafson - vocals, acoustic guitar
Ray Doyle - guitar, harmony vocals
Duane Becker - steel guitars
Mark Thornton - electric guitar, gut string guitar
Dennis Crouch - upright bass
Jeff Lisenby- Accordian
John McTigue III - drums

1. Don't Fence Me In 2:35
(Cole Porter)
2. Cattle Call 4:00
(Tex Owens)
3. Red River Valley 3:01
(Traditional) BMI
4. The Lilac Bush 2:26
(Traditional) BMI
5. Room to Roam 3:12
(W. Gustafson) BMI
6. I'm an Old Cowhand 2:47
(Mercer)
7. Cool Water 3:44
(B. Nolan)
8. Ragtime Cowboy Joe 2:15
(Clark, Muir, Abrahams)
9. Ridin' Down the Canyon 3:38
(Autry/Burnett)
10. Bad Brahma Bull 3:30
(Curley Fletcher)
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Glory Trail/ Wylie Gustafson - Cowboy and Traditional Gospel Songs

These songs are a collection of words and melodies that have woven their way into my life in a most profound way. The church where my wife and I worship is nestled in the rolling hills of the Palouse in eastern Washington State. There I married my beautiful spouse and sang to her the song "Gracious Reward," which I created for our wedding day. On any given Sunday the din of voices wafts through the rafters of the Country Bible Church and carries outside across the little valley where we make our home. Our small congregation heartily sings the songs that have been sung by generations… songs that are the cornerstone of our little church that was built by German immigrants who inhabited the Palouse almost a century ago. If you are ever passing through our part of the country on a Sunday morning, you are welcome to come sit with us and sing the old hymns that define our faith.

Recorded at the Ol' Bunkhouse Studio, Nashville, TN
Produced by Wylie Gustafson
Engineered & mixed by Mark Thornton
Wylie Galt Gustafson - vocals, acoustic guitar
Ray Doyle - guitar, harmony vocals
Hoot Hester - Fiddle, guitar, mandolin, harmony vocals
Mark Thornton - electric guitar, gut string guitar
Dennis Crouch - upright bass
Jeff Taylor- Accordian
John McTigue III - drums

1. Rounded Up in Glory 3:01
(Traditional)
2. The Place Where I Worship 3:57
(Foster, Goodhart, Tarr, Spicer)
3. Just a Closer Walk with Thee 2:33
(Traditional)
4. The River of Jordan 2:39
(Hazel Hauser)
5. Because He Lives 4:35
(W. & G. Gaither)
6. Branded 3:08
(W. Gustafson)
7. Gracious Reward 2:58
(W. Gustafson)
8. How Great Thou Art 4:21
(Traditional)
9. Power in the Blood 2:43
(Traditional)
10. Farther ALong 4:03
(Traditional)
11. The Old Rugged Cross 2:59
(Traditional)
12. This Train3:26
(Traditional)
13. I Love to Tell the Story 2:18
(Traditional)
14. The Grand Round Up 3:41
(Traditional)
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Get Wild

Wylie & The Wild West Show's second release. Recorded at Merle Haggard's studio near Redding, California. Includes "Hey Maria," "Cattle Call," "Ugly Girl Blues" (duet with Merle) and many more. This is a critically acclaimed Wylie & The Wild West Show classic.

Produced by Wylie.
Executive Producer: Joan Cohen
Recorded at Tally Studios, Palo Cedro, CA.
Engineered & mixed by Lou Bradley
Assisted by Mike Fried
Mastered by Steve Hall at Future Disc Systems, Hollywood, CA.
Photography by Ed Colver
Design by Lisa Sutton

The Band:
Wylie - vocals & bass guitar
Mike Fried - steel guitar, Dobro, baritone, electric and acoustic guitars
Ray Doyle - harmony vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, mando-guitar
Kenny Griffin - drums

Guest Musicians:
Clint Stong - electric guitar
Will Ray - electric guitar
Abe Manuel - fiddle & accordian

1. Hey Maria 3:11
(Wylie/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
2. Ugly Girl Blues 1:49
(Wylie/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
3. Devil Woman 3:02
(Marty Robbins/Mariposa Music, BMI)
4. I'm Gonna be a Cowboy 2:14
(Marty Robbins/Mariposa Music, BMI)
5. Room to Roam. 3:35
(Wylie/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
6. Honky Tonk Girls 2:41
(Kostas, Songs of Polygram Int., Inc., Seven Angles Music, BMI)
7. Too Late 4:39
(Wylie, Raul Malo/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music-Sony Tree Music, BMI)
8. Honeydew 2:18
(Wylie/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music-High Seas Music, BMI)
9. Cattle Call 3:31
(Tex Owens, Forster Music Pub., Inc., ASCAP)
10. Shakin' the Blues 3:10
(Wylie, Bret Graham/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
11. Give It Up 3:32
(Wylie, Erik Gustafson/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
12. Jesus Loves Me 3:23
(Wylie, Tracy Huffman/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music-Lanky Bones Music, BMI)
13. Half Hearted Love 3:00
(Ray Doyle/Doyle Well Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
14. How Do ya Feel? 3:32
(Wylie & The Wild West Show/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
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Wylie & the Wild West Show

Wylie & The Wild West Show's debut release. "Wylie & The Wild West Show" is akin to a four star art-house film: you know it won't get mainstream attention but that's just as well, those that do partake will appreciate it even more. There's not a bad cut here: the slow shuffle, "This Time" and the rousing "Wild Hair Boogie," an instrumental that Junior Brown would kill for, deserve special attention. Just pop this CD in, grab a partner and stir up some saw dust.
--from "Music Hound Country", Mario Tarradell

Produced by Will Ray.
Executive Producer: Joan Cohen
Recorded at Juniper Studios and Rambo Studios, Burbank, CA and Boulevard Sound, Hollywood, CA.
Engineered & mixed by Will Ray and Jim Emrich.
Bye Bye Love and Doctor My Heart engineered and mixed by Will ray and Steven Sharp.
Mastered by Steve Hall at Future Disc Systems, Hollywood, CA.
Photography by Karen Miller, Steven Sullivan and Kelley Fisher
Design by Melba Toast
Illustration & graphics by Lynda Modaff

The Band:
Wylie - vocals & bass guitar
Will Ray - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin
Carlos Rodriguez-Bello - acoustic guitar
Marty Rifkin - pedal steel guitar
Ray Doyle - electric guitar
Alan Brown & Kenny Griffin - drums

Guest Musicians:
Barbara Lamb - fiddle

1. Black Boots & Blue Jeans 3:12
(Wylie/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
2. This Time 3:10
(Erik Gustafson/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
3. Yodeling Fool 3:25
(Wylie/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
4. Talkin' About My Baby. 3:30
(Wylie, Carlos Rodriguez/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
5. Wishful Thinking 4:05
(Will Ray/Ghost Ranch Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
6. Bye Bye Love 3:22
(Felice & Boudleaux Bryant/House of Bryant, BMI)
7. Doctor My Heart 2:37
(Wylie/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
8. Two Cups of Coffee 3:34
(Wylie, Carlos Rodriguez/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
9. Since I Found You 2:30
(Wylie/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
10. Back to Memphis 3:48
(Wylie, Will Ray/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music-Ghost Ranch Music, BMI)
11. All Hat, No Cattle 3:21
(Wylie, Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music, BMI)
12. Wild Hair Boogie 1:53
(Wylie, Will Ray/Two Medicine Music-Triangle Bar Music-Ghost Ranch Music, BMI)
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