From Los Angeles to Nevada, younger people are preserving a longstanding tradition one lyric at a time ...

Dec. 24—Local poet Rik Goodell had a good year, indeed. He won the International Western Music Association Award of Excellence for his album, "Cowboyin' with God," which was named the 2025 Cowboy ...

When Tom Swearingen wrote his first poem to remember a friend who had died, he didn’t consider himself a poet. But the small group of friends and family he read it to told him to keep writing. He did, ...

Anyone can be a cowboy poet, they just have to rhyme. Anyone can be a cowboy poet, they just have to rhyme. Anyone can be a cowboy poet, they just have to rhyme. It’s been over 125 years since the ...

For decades, Gene Baldwin was known around Weston County as the “Voice of the Dogies” at Newcastle High School football games ...

He won the International Western Music Association Award of Excellence for his album, “Cowboyin’ with God,” which was named the 2025 Cowboy Poetry Album of the Year. The organization’s Awards of ...