Doris Daley
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Book: Rhyme and Reason $20 plus postage
Over 30 poems, including Answering
Machine, Pierre, Old Age, 100 Years from Now, Proud to be Your Wife, Love is
Blind.
CD: Good for What Ails You Contains Answering Machine, Bones, Bless
These Hands, My Perfume, End Times, Dear Charlie, Skunk in the Bunkhouse
& many more poems and a few musical surprises. $20 plus postage. Order from: Box 103, Turner Valley, AB TOL 2AO E mail ddaley@telusplanet.net
Recorded live in concert in a ranch north of Lundbreck Alberta |
Born and raised in ranching country in Southern Alberta, Doris Daley comes from a gene pool that includes Mounties, cowboys, pie bakers, bushwhackers, good dancers, berry pickers and sorry team ropers. Known as the wordsmith's poet, she can bake a pie, recite the alphabet backwards, catch fish, get the gate, hobble your horse, be the tenth caller in, and hum the theme songs to Gunsmoke and Have Gun Will Travel. She is one of only five or six Canadians to have never roped a bear.One of few writers in North America to make her living as a cowboy poet, Doris has been an emcee and featured performer at every cowboy festival in Canada and several in the U.S., including gatherings in Nevada, Texas, California, Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Oregon. In 2008 she made her 7th trip to Elko as a featured invited entertainer, and recently performed with the Reno Philharmonic and the Saskatchewan Opera. She is at home around campfires, community halls or on the concert stage throughout North America. School groups are a favourite, and Doris has presented numerous poetry workshops to both children and adults. In 2004 she was voted top female cowboy poet in North America by the Academy of Western Artists, and has been nominated numerous times by the Western Music Association for both cowboy poetry and cowboy song collaboration.
"Doris is the pre-eminent female poet in this genre and the equal of any male writing today," says Jack Hannah, Sons of the San Joaquin. "In my opinion, she is the female Robert Service. Doris' verbal paintbrush is as captivating and as visual as the paintings of Russell and Remington. If you want to know the West, listen to Doris Daley. Her gift is unique and her appeal is irresistible." |
