We are pleased to offer a special 22 track CD of songs and recitations recorded live at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, from 1985 - 2015, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of Charles Badger Clark's "Sun and Saddle Leather," a humble book of western verse published in 1915 that quickly became a classic and has since helped define the genre of American cowboy poetry. Badger Clark may be best known (nowadays) for writing "A Cowboy's Prayer," a work that became so popular and widespread that Clark's authorship was largely forgotten—the poem was often credited to "Anonymous." CD includes a 24-page booklet that contains an essay about Charles Badger Clark written by Elaine Thatcher, as well as words to all the poems as published by Clark between 1915 and 1922.CD provides over 74 minutes of Clark's best loved works as performed by:

A Cowboy's Prayer by Owen Johnson, 1985 * The Legend of Boastful Bill by Jerry Brooks, 2014 * Ridin' by Don Edwards & Waddie Mitchell, 2009 * From Town by Cain Eaton, 2000 * The Glory Trail (aka High Chin Bob) by Rod McQueary, 1995 * A Bad Half Hour by Connie Dover & Skip Gorman, 2012 * A Border Affair (aka Spanish is the Lovin' Tongue) by Denise Withnell Cowboy Celtic, 1999 along with lesser known and rarely heard pieces: The Free Wind by Jerry Brooks, 2006 * To Her by Barry Hertz, Joe Hertz & David Wilkie, 2014 * Horseback Men by Gail Steiger, 2013 * The Locoed Horse by Joel Nelson, 1993 * Saturday Night by Lorraine Rawls & Crystal Reeves, 2002 * Song of the Leather by Tom Pearlman, 2001 * The Piano at Red's by Gary McMahan & DW Groethe, 2013 * The Married Man by Randy Rieman, 1993 * Plains Born by Jill Jones & Lone Star Chorale, 2004 * God's Reserves by Linda M. Hasselstrom, 2001 * A Bad Half Hour by Owen Johnson, 1985 * The Long Way by Carl Sharp, 1996 * The Old Cow Man by Don Edwards, 2000 * The Rains by Jim Ross, 1994 * The Old Prospector by Jerry Brooks, 2006

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