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WHY THE COWBOY SINGS
THIS SUMMER ON PBS PLUS
America's Natural Anthem for honesty, good horses, freedom and the wide open
A one-hour documentary by Hal Cannon and Taki Telonidis
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Feed information: Monday, July 21st, 2003 from 1100-1200 on transponder 502. NOLA code for this program is WCOS 000(K1)
- Why the Cowboy Sings is a wintertime journey across the open West, to find out why cowboys make music. The cowboy's job has always been low paying, dangerous, lonely, cold, hot, dusty, smelly, and gory. So why do these people sing? Meet a virtual time-machine of the old cowboy ballad; a ranch family of singers out on the high deserts of Nevada; a Crow Indian cowboy poet and singer from Montana; and a cowgirl who became alienated writing songs in Nashville and bought back her lost birthright on a Montana ranch, with the help of income from hit song she wrote for Garth Brooks.
- The Audience for this program is deeper and broader than you might think given how many Americans are western enthusiasts. The history, style and openness of the West appeals to Americans from every region of the country.
- Produced by the Western Folklife Center in conjunction with KUED in Salt Lake City, This is the same collaboration which created the PBS hit special "Elko, The Cowboy Gathering". The producers, Hal Cannon and Taki Telonidis are regular contributors to NPR. And Cannon, who hosts the program, is the founding director of the famous American institution, the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada.
- Awards include a Gold Jury Award from the Houston Film Festival, Best Feature program, Rocky Mountain Emmy, and a finalist for the Will Rogers Award.
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