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Anne Collier, publisher netfamilynews.org
"From the very beginning, you let the people come through without the slightest hint of irony or judgment. I like that you've chosen to show people who love what they do, who've made peace with their pasts or are trying to, people who seem grateful and open-hearted.
"I loved the people, the landscape, the ease of it -- but mostly the rhythm, the flow. It felt like the land and all that moves on it was spiraling up through the people and coming out in sounds, words and music, coming out in chiming air, in breath. Sing on, cowboys! Let there be no end to music, to breathing the world and ourselves in it."
"Apropos the video's title, the big theme for me is a classical one -- the Muse. How is inspiration courted? The answer for Larry and Glenn is very different: Glenn's existentialism to Larry's enfoldment in the arms of God. Then Henry and Stephanie: Henry channeling like the beat poets (America's own) to Stephanie's careful crafting."
"An amazing community of people you've helped come together out there! Each cowboy and cowgirl had such a different (all of them intriguing) story to tell. You really captured a very special essence of sincerity and devotion with each of them."
"Your genuine affection for folks and relationships with them brings all the rest of us closer-- closer to these individuals and to the meaning of this music and to their insights about the land and ways of choosing to live a life."
Strong, beautiful, lyrical, evocative, and you have given us miraculous things to see, feel, and think about--and to appreciate -
"Why the Cowboy Sings" gets into the soul of what it means to be a Westerner, even for those of us who have degenerated into that oxymoronic caricature called an urban cowboy.
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