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Ranch Rhymes: Cowboy Poetry and Music from the Western Folklife Center offers great poetry, music and commentary. Recordings and photographs are drawn from the Western Folklife Center Archives, and listeners who have joined us in Elko for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering will recognize some of their favorite performers.

Unfortunately, due to financial considerations, we have had to suspend production of new podcasts for the time being. We are looking for sponsors for the podcast so we can continue to share these treasures from our Archives with you. In the meantime, you can listen to all the past podcasts here and you can download them from iTunes. For more information on podcasting and the RSS feed, click here.

Special thanks go to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Dick Burton Foundation, the R. Harold Burton Foundation, Anne Pattee, and the GRAMMY Foundation® for funding support of the Western Folklife's audio preservation program, enabling us to make these archival recordings. 

Where's Your Horse?

Historic photo of uknown characters
Historic photo, Ross Fuqua collection
Ranch Rhymes presents cowboy poet John Doran's take on the making of a real cowboy.

Length: 4:27 ~ Listen or podcast from iTunes.

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"The Ghost of April, 1978"

Nevada poet and writer, Carolyn Dufurrena
Photo by Kevin Martini-Fuller
As April 2009 draws to a close, Ranch Rhymes features a poem by Carolyn Dufurrena, Nevada poet, writer, educator and former geologist, titled "Ghost of April, 1978."

Length: 3:42  ~ Listen or podcast from iTunes.his e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

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Ernie Sites in the Deep West Sheep Camp, Part III

Cowboy poet and musician Ernie Sites
Photo by Kevin Martini-Fuller
Cowboy poet and songwriter Ernie Sites from Wendell, Idaho, has come to Elko for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering every year since he stumbled onto it by accident in 1986. In this episode of Ranch Rhymes we talk with him and feature a poem and a song.

 

Length: 10:39 ~ Listen or podcast from iTunes

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