Buddy Gale
Cowboy Poet & song Writer
"There's more coming, just dont know when "
Buddy Gale
A new CD
Songs Of Sweat and Leather
by
Lloyd Dolen and Double Diamond Band
Features two Buddy Gale songs:
'Longhorn Legends' & 'More To a Cowboy Than Ride'
"I was
born in Buck Lake Alberta in an environment of mud, bush, horses, hunting and
trapping and hard economic times across the country during the 30's. Working
long days wasn't a choice of want to, or don't want to-you had to! But for everyone,
any place, anywhere, fun and exciting things helped you forget the long hard
days of work and solitude. Every community and town across the country had
cowboys of various abilities. Rodeo was the direction for some but not the
majority. Most needed a more solid way of paying bills.
People seeking more land, bigger homes, a quieter pace of life and more
space for kids to play has commuter acreages moving ever further onto the
range. The cowboy habitat has gone from 20 acres to a horse to 20 horses to
an acre. I'd like to keep the 20 acres to a horse in my poems and songs."Buddy Gale Cowboy Poet
& Songwriter
On one of
his last days of his Cowboy career, Buddy scored a 90 point ride when icy
water splashed the belly of his horse, the same one that summer-salted
through the creek willows, spooked by the sound of a rusty gate hinge. In 1948 Buddys
took to trucking, later to logging and then pipelining, and he never
forgot the details of life as a Cowboy, and in fact, remained a keen
observer of the Cowboy lifestyle. Buddy wrote his first poems nearly 20 years
ago after reading stories and reviews on Cowboy Poetry. Almost a hundred of
his 400 plus poems have been put to music, by a score of artists who recognize
that their authenticity and accuracy are critical in preserving the Cowboy
and the Cowboy Way.
Buddy Gale was 12 years old when he and a pal jumped freight cars out of
Winfield Alberta, riding through Lacombe and Calgary to the famous ranches
of southern Alberta. Buddy would recall those Cowboy days many years later
in poems like Sweep Wreck,Winter Four Up, Prairie Wool, and in the story
of Rusty, a sorrel Belgian work horse. His poetry is not contrived nor
stereotypical and poems like The Handshake and Cowboy's Hat let us peek
into The Way It Was.
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FAME A Tough Bronc To Ride Lyrics: Buddy Gale Sung by: Shirley Field
1.
Fame
2.
Mountain Lonesome
3.
Cowboy Angel
4.
Saddle of The West
5.
Spurs
6.
Midnight Rider 7. There's a Cowboy In My Heart
8.
Let The Wild Horse
Run
9.
Out Where The Cowboys
Ride
10.
Empty Town
11.
Cowboy Heading Home
12.
Pioneers
13.
Yodeling Blue
14.
Lonesome
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Buck Lake Alberta cowboy Laurel Ives,
rode broncs and bulls in rodeos across the USA and Canada for more
than twenty years. A photo of a spectacular saddle bronc ride early
in his career was the subject of 1945 Fort McLeod Rodeo Poster. It
is also the cover photo for the Fame album. The title track, Fame is a tribute to him.
Shirley Field Her career memories and highlights are touring with the late, great
Marty Robbins and her dear friend, Loretta Lynn, as well as
being honoured as Canada's female yodeling champion in 1950.
On November 4th 1993, Shirley won the International Female Yodeling
Championship at the Western Music Festival in Tucson, Arizona.
February 6, 1998 was awarded the Bronze Bully Award for her
dedication in performing western music for over 50 years. It
was awarded to Wilf Carter in 1996 and Roy Rogers and the Sons
of the Pioneers in 1997. |
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Buddy
Gale Riding With Tom Hogarth On Some Buddys Poetry Vol I
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Tom Hogarth is featured on six of the sixteen tracks
on Buddy Gale Riding With Tom Hogarth, while Buddy does ten
favourite poems. Tom was born in a farming community near Stettler Alberta. He is the genuine
article, living proof you can't take the cowboy out of the boy. Tom says he's followed the Cowboy Way since "I was knee high to a Shetland". I've been very lucky to have artists like Tom Hogarth put my poems to music. Thanks Tom.
* Tom Hogarth puts music to a Buddy Gale poem |
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The Way
It Was Buddy Gale
Al Owchar
Megan Contini
Katie Kidwell
Perry
Jacobson
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Megan
Contini, an accomplished classical, jazz, blues and western
music artist teamed with western music song writer, Perry Jacobson (Latigo) on two Buddy Gale poems.
Al
Owchar
plays Katie Kidwells music for a third
Buddy Gale poem turned to song by Megan
Contini.
Rawhide And
Ribbons is one of the few songs written
about women of the west.
* Megan Contini music by Perry
Jacobson ** Megan Contini, Music by Katie Kidwell, Al Owchar musician |
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Buddy Gale CDs are $20.00. Contact Buddy
at the E mail address shown so appropriate postage and handling charges may be
determined. Regrettably, Buddy Gale is not available for private
functions |
