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Photo by omas Lee, thomasleephoto.com
Friday, March 17
Following First Strike Friday Night Live Auction
Wylie Gustafson is an American Original. e gifted singer, songwriter, rancher, horseman, and the world-famous Yahoo!® yodeler leads the musical out t known as Wylie & the Wild West. As one music writer sums it up: “Forget everything you hate about modern country, this guy is all old school cool without being a tired period piece.”
Wylie is a real life cowboy born into a fourth-generation ranching family on the empty sprawl of northern Montana. He celebrates his unique rural perspective as a proli c singer/songwriter with over twenty albums to his credit. Whether he’s playing for a crowd of 50 or 5,000, Wylie’s goal is always the same: “To win a crowd and not be boring!”
Photo by Ross Hecox,
Western Horseman
A Lively Pre-auction Concert before e Russell Saturday, March 18
is trio’s stylistic genesis—as well as title—stems from the realization that
the great heritage of strings (guitars and violins) originates mutually with the Manouche gypsies of France and the no- less virtuosic hillbilly pickers and fiddlers of Oklahoma and Texas....Together for over 15 years and a dozen albums, the threesome of high-heeled violinist Elana James, guitarist Whit Smith and bassist Jake Erwin showed from the beginning that jazz and country music could exist together on the same page, a highly commendable achievement if ever there
was one.
—Will Friedwald, Wall Street Journal, 2014
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