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In The Spotlight<br />
Continued from page 17<br />
is due for release this spring. Tom’s first CD, Horses and<br />
Happiness, was a two-time finalist for WMA Poetry CD of<br />
the Year.<br />
…Beth Malone, daughter of WMA member Peggy Malone, made<br />
the final cut to appear in the Robert De Niro and Danny DeVito<br />
movie The Comedian. Also, the Tony Award-winning play she<br />
stars in was nominated for a Grammy Award. In the meantime,<br />
Peggy is recovering from total hip replacement surgery.<br />
…Cindy Smith, along with Lynn Hubbard and Susan<br />
Gilmore, is beginning a new venture. “3 Diamonds<br />
Festival & Event Planning” is aimed at organizing<br />
non-profit and for-profit festivals, promoting Western<br />
Music and all things cowboy, and offering a variety<br />
of specialized themes for festivals and parties.<br />
…The Oregon Valley Boys will be in the studio in April to<br />
record a new single. Also, Randy “Tex” Hill will be inducted<br />
as a “Living Hero of Western Swing” by the Cowtown Society<br />
of Western Music in Mineral Wells, TX on May 7th.<br />
…James Michael will be releasing a new CD this spring.<br />
Produced by Jeanne Cahill, it will contain ten original songs plus<br />
two original poems. Co-writers on some of the songs include<br />
Jeanne, Jerome Campbell, Mike Dunn, and Les Buffham.<br />
…A second CD of poetry and song, Just An Old Song, has<br />
been released by Jerry Bell, and a third, titled High Mountain<br />
Memory, is set to be released soon.<br />
… Doug Figgs released a new CD in March titled A Cowboy<br />
Like Me. Featuring the musical talents of Doug, Jim Jones, and<br />
Mariam Funke, the album contains 12 self-penned writes and<br />
co-writes along with a cover of Toy Caldwell’s “Can’t You See.”<br />
…Sid Hausman and Washtub Jerry have received notice that<br />
ukulele western swing albums Blue Horizon and Colorado<br />
Belle, have both been selected to be on the Pandora playlist.<br />
…David Allen of Country Music People magazine has labeled<br />
“Riding After Midnight” by Clint Bradley as “Number<br />
1 Critics’ Choice Album” for 2015. Clint and his band<br />
embarked on a series of dates across the UK, Ireland, and<br />
Scandinavia in March and are currently rehearsing their next<br />
western album to be released in the winter. The next album<br />
will consist of all original songs. Clint has also been officially<br />
nominated for the Academy of Western Artists’ Male Western<br />
Artist award.<br />
…Marty Davis will be spending May through mid-July doing<br />
groundwork for his son, Bret Davis, who is a horse trainer at<br />
Cudd Quarter Horses in Woodward, OK.<br />
The WESTERN WAY<br />
…Million Star Resort is the latest book of western poetry<br />
from Canadian poet Doris Daley. Released in January, the<br />
project contains several new poems plus all the poems from<br />
100 Years of Thunder, the show/CD project that Daley did in<br />
collaboration with Bruce Innes, paying tribute to rodeo in<br />
general and the Calgary Stampede in particular.<br />
…The Cowtown Society of Western Music will name Alex<br />
Dormont, bandleader of the Hot Texas Swing Band, a Hero<br />
of Western Swing at their Annual Awards Show in Mineral<br />
Wells, TX on Saturday, May 7 th .<br />
…Robert and Susie Case of A Little Farther West are<br />
finishing up their second CD, Mountain Storm, at their<br />
Town & Country Records studio in Oklahoma. The album<br />
is tentatively scheduled for release in June.<br />
…Junction 5-12 (Ernie Martinez and Mary Gifford) released<br />
their new CD, titled San Miguel, at a CD release concert at The<br />
Olde Town Pickin’ Parlor in Arvada, CO in March.<br />
…Liz Masterson has released her 8th album. Mood Swings<br />
is an eclectic assortment of eleven songs that express Liz’s<br />
broad musical interests including cowboy, blues, swing,<br />
Celtic, and yodeling spiced with lush harmonies and stellar<br />
instrumentation. She started this project before her cancer<br />
diagnosis in 2012 and says that finishing it has been a motivating<br />
and healing experience. Visit www.LizMasterson.com.<br />
…Doug Figgs was interviewed by Sandy Moss on AZTV<br />
7 Morning Scramble in December. He performed his song<br />
“Christmas For a Cowboy” while on the show. t<br />
WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA<br />
announce the<br />
Spur Award Winners<br />
for<br />
BEST WESTERN SONG<br />
Congratulations!<br />
WINNER<br />
“The Hand”<br />
by Trinity Seely and Waddie Mitchell<br />
(Bucket Bail Press)<br />
FINALISTS<br />
“Dad’s Song”<br />
by Caitlyn Taussig (self-published)<br />
“Parker Eyes of Blue”<br />
by Almeda Bradshaw<br />
(Bendiksen Productions)<br />
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