Cowboy Classics

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#		Title	Length
1		Backward Turn Backward	1:29	Play
2		Cowboy Again For A Day	4:13	Play
3		Home On The Range	3:30	Play
4		I Ride An Old Paint	3:17	Play
5		Cattle Call	3:39	Play
6		Colorado Trail	3:00	Play
7		Whoopee Ti Yi Yo	3:47	Play
8		Oh, Susanna	3:23	Play
9		Clementine	2:22	Play
10		Ghost Riders In The Sky (Acoustic)	3:36	Play
11		Night Rider's Lament (Acoustic)	5:04	Play
12		Day Is Done	1:31	Play

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Rick Devin continues to build a recorded legacy enriching our vision of the American West. In it's tales of the day-to-day lives and emotions of those who lived it, his ballads paint a sweeping landscape of both the mind and heart, keeping alive the sights, sounds and feelings of this most American contribution to culture and art.... Cowboy Music.


The quality of this cowboy balladeer's music stems from the fact that he is so much more than a singer. Rick Devin is perhaps one of the best purveyors of cowboy music in America today.


A historian, composer and musicologist, someone well-versed in cowboy lore and musical traditions, Rick brings a rare complement of knowledge of and love for his craft. Mostly though, there is the soul of a poet; a man who has never succumbed to any temptation to present a glamorized or romanticized version of the West. Devin deals with the bad weather and petty motivation, with sadness, nostalgia and longing as parts of the landscape, like any other.


Rick was exposed as a child to a vast cross-section of music from classical to jazz, and blues to western-swing, and pop to early rock. Many of the those influences enter his original music, as they did some of the music of the West. Devin was drawn to the cowboy life by the books of Will James and the Westerns of the silver screen. He taught himself guitar starting at age nine, and chased the rodeo and worked ranches in California and Nevada during his teens and Twenties. In 1980, he got a job as an actor/singer for Glen Campbell's Christmas Special Television Show and he was to stick with music and cowboying, from then on. Rick started recording Radio Jingles and teaching guitar lessons in 1982. He also made his first record in 1982, 'My Favorites'.


Rick became the manager of the Sierra Meadows Pack Station in Mammoth Lakes, California and he would play acoustic sets during the Hayride Dinners. Often, special guests would accompany him, including Riders In The Sky, Johnny Western, and Sons Of The San Joaquin.


Always yearning to ride new ranges of the American West, Rick ventured throughout the Sierras and Rocky Mountains, working as a cowboy, riding and strumming his guitar. When I asked Rick how he learned the classic western yodels, he painted for me, visual images of him riding alone into the High Sierra Mountains, with a pack string of six mules, to supply a drop camp in the backcountry. He chuckled, 'It was just the eight of us, my mare, my string and myself and they didn't seem to complain too much. I also learned to play the harmonica that summer. With an eight to twelve hour ride each day, I learned pretty quickly and my harp was easier to fit into my duster pocket than my guitar.' It was then, the summer of 1984, and Rick's love of the cowboy lifestyle, that his music took on the classic, cowboy ballad style that we hear so clearly today.


For nearly twenty years since that summer, Rick Devin continued to ride the ranges and sing the cowboy songs so close to his heart. Yet, his ranges and audiences had grown to a world wide status. He tells of a wide variety of rides and shows that he has shared through out North America, Europe and South America, some performing along side with many of music's greatest stars, an extensive list, like a who's who in Country and Western Music.


Rick recorded and released 'Colorado Reflections' in 1998, with an independent label, selling out his inventory at his cowboy shows. He then recorded 'Colorado Cowboy' in the fall of 1999 at a guest ranch in Colorado with his band, 'The Eagle River Band', it was released in 2000 on the Red Cloud Records Label. 'Colorado Cowboy' contains a collection of cowboy songs old and new, including Rick's smash hit single, 'Momma, I'm A Cowboy'. After much success and high accolades from the critics, Red Cloud Records released another recording in 2002, 'Row Of Doors' . This CD seems to further cement Rick's place in music history as a solid fundamental performer and original composer of cowboy music. His unique blend of purely western themes and hauntingly beautiful melodies mixed with various musical influences is a rare treasure, indeed and it earned him much press and recognition through out the music world. Not since, Ian Tyson have we seen this kind of depth in new cowboy music.


Rick's newest recording, 'Cowboy Classics', is a crowning point in his extensive career. While sticking to the truly classic cowboy songs, Rick has taken his listener on a journey through time, from the hustle and bustle of every day modern life to the simple pleasures of a hot cup of coffee or a warm campfire after a long day in the saddle. One seems to be so close to the history of the music that you can smell the fresh air and feel the pain in your knees.


The richness of Rick's voice coupled with his magical stage presentation makes Rick Devin one of America's premier western singers and concert attractions. The accolades though, have been simply added bonuses for Devin, who sings what he does out of love and respect for the genre. Rick's career continues to blossom, and luckily for all who care about it, he has because of his sincere and humble approach, added much to the literature and music of the West, passing on to the rest of us, a legacy rich for his efforts.