I wrote this song after watching real working cowboys dealing with rodeo stock in the pasture just behind our house. Living in Cottonwood definitely has its inspirational perks.
Celebrating the arrival of Rodeo Season by giving away free downloads of "The Last Cowboy in Shasta County." It's at our website - please help yourself:
Last month I read about a show being produced by talk radio host Ronn Owens, KGO AM 810(San Francisco). "The Best Music You've Never Heard" is a once-a-year show and they requested CDs from unsigned Northern California bands. They put all the CDs in a box and pulled out enough to play short clips for an hour and a half. The last hour of the show would be devoted to listeners calling in to vote on their favorites.
So I popped a CD in the mail and promptly forgot all about it.
Back in the early 90s, when I lived in San Jose, I listened to Ronn Owens daily. I had two tiny kids and very little in the way of adult interaction and I thoroughly enjoyed his smart, thoughtful take on news. And since I had little ones, and talking on the phone was not an option, I FAXed in responses and questions to his show.
Fast forward to this morning. I learned via Twitter that "The Best Music" show was airing today. I tuned in online halfheartedly - realizing that the chance of them playing our music was very slim. An hour and 15 minutes into the show, when I heard Redding rocker David Thompson's song "Any Questions," I immediately emailed him congratulations.
David was the ONLY artist from outside the Bay Area that they played. But a couple songs later, they announced that the next clip was from Still Married of Cottonwood. The song was "The Shadow of Shasta" -- WOW -- very cool. Owens said nice things - which is the kind of guy he is -- and my day was made.
