Cowboy tunes and heart-breakin' blues with though-provoking lyrics, tight percussion, and wicked guitar licks.

8 MP3 Songs in this album (30:21) !
Related styles: Country: Cowboy, Blues: Folk-Blues, Featuring Guitar

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Details:
Stoney Martins â acoustic guitar, vocals
Darren Holmes â electric guitar, vocals
Dr. Lee â drums, djembe, and percussion

Recorded at The Owlâs Nest (Hull, Quebec) and Homerâs Basement Studio (Aylmer, Quebec). Mixed and mastered by Darren Holmes. Photography by Rémi Thériault. Design by Jared Barter.

Stoney is much obliged to all the musicians, artists, and supporters who participated in this recording project. Special thanks to Uncle Zeke for dreaminâ me up.

By way of introduction ...

The wind has shifted. The west is won. The natives are cleared out and the buffalo ⦠well, letâs not talk about the buffalo. When you gaze down across the plains it might not look different, but it sure feels different. A little less wild. A little less promise. A little bit emptier.

Where did all the cowboys get to? Youâd think that with their ruggedness of spirit and their ways to sustain themselves on next to nothinâ that theyâd be riding the range forever. That didnât pan out. Theyâre gone like the gold rush.

Whatever cowboys are left are continually on the road, sometimes drifting, trying to get back to a place or recover something. Maybe theyâre looking for that stash oâ loot they buried under a boulder to elude the law. But which boulder was it again? The cowboys are searching. Itâs part of their spirit. They wander. They tame. And to do this well they themselves must be a little bit wild.

Of course the restlessness of cowboys makes âem a mess when it comes to love. Might make âem seem like romantic beasts, but that too runs dry like a river. By a woman or by a boss man, cowboys might be roped down for a spell but never broken. Otherwise, they never were. They never were no good cowboys.