LIVE EPISODE | From the 2026 Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous Episode

This Live Episode features Husband and Wife Duo "Many Strings" Tony and Carol Messerly. Cowboy Poet Bob Urry, and Rendezvous Founder Dale Major.

The Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous is one of the premier celebrations of cowboy culture, western music, poetry, and storytelling in the Intermountain West. Held annually in Logan, Utah, the event brings together award-winning musicians, poets, artisans, and western heritage enthusiasts for several days of performances, workshops, and community gatherings. Known for its authentic western atmosphere and family-friendly programming, the Rendezvous honors the traditions, values, and artistic legacy of the American West while providing a stage for both legendary performers and emerging western artists. The event has become a must-attend destination for fans of cowboy music, ranching heritage, and western storytelling from across the United States and Canada.

MORE ABOUT THE CACHE VALLEY COWBOY RENDEZVOUS:
Website: https://share.google/ZEpikfnxWZ4zBTRa3

🎵 In This Episode:
• Live interview
• Cowboy Western Music
• Pioneer Heritage
• Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous
• Guest Tony & Carol Messerly, Bob Urry, Dale Major

MORE ABOUT MUSICAL MILES PODCAST:
Website: https://share.google/njnmmglKCpu8nX7jn
Instagram: https://share.google/PvAJe1qGxIKhYSVZ7
Facebook: https://share.google/OcbFlCHb3fSntAVhX
TikTok: https://share.google/ikD2YSj8qEMv3ROY2
Spotify: https://share.google/ooaz1mIUqHoM9CW9z
YouTube: https://share.google/7xkaESL50rsQx93Qr

SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION:
Contact Byron Duffin
musicalmilespodcast@gmail.com
208-690-1426
SHOUTOUT TO OUR SPONSORS: Click the links for more info
Our Guitar Sponsor Klos Guitars ~ www.klosguitar.com
ROPER ~ Wear The West For Discounts on Boots, Shoes and Western Apparel ClICK THE LINK:  https://eroper.com/?ref=BYRONDUFFIN
TIN HAUL ~ 30% DISCOUNTS For our Musical Miles Podcast followers Click the link to shop. https://tinhaul.com/?ref=BYRONDUFFIN
FOR PODCAST EPISODE SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES:
Contact Byron Duffin 208-690-1426
musicalmilespodcast@gmail.com

#liveinterview, #cowboypoet,  #songwriter,  #countrymusic, #cowboymusic  #musicalmilespodcast,  #PodcastInterview, #MusicalMiles, #songwriterinterview, #raisingstar, #klosguitars,

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Okay, you ready? We're live now anyway. So hey everybody, welcome to Musical Miles Podcast. We're doing a live broadcast from Cash Valley Cowboy Rendezvous uh here in in Logan, Utah.

unknown 0:14

Right?

SPEAKER_03 0:14

Cash Valley Cowboy Rendezvous. Yes. And uh this started last night, and I am here with Tony and Carol Messerly from Many Streams. Uh we are doing a live broadcast from what stage is this one?

SPEAKER_05 0:30

This uh Sagwich Basin.

SPEAKER_03 0:32

Sagwich Basin. Sagwich Basin stage. So there's three four stages set up here at the event. There's the uh uh but anyway, this room and the room next door both gonna be set up for live. Uh excuse me, not live, but for um live stream on Facebook. Yeah, live stream on Facebook, but we're also but you're also doing um uh open mics, right? But you guys are performing. You performed last night with Skip Ewing. How was that?

SPEAKER_02 1:02

Great, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:03

That was fun. He was great, it was fun. You guys, we loved we loved your set. We got to sit uh sit in and see last night. Um, first time we've actually got to see you guys perform, but uh loved it. You've got you played some original music for us, and you've got some really cool titles. But let's talk a little bit about your musical careers because Tony, you you, you and I are the same age. Uh you look a little better than I do, and you've probably had a little cleaner living. We both got gray whiskers. So, but uh um you uh you grew up in Wyoming. That's what you told me, right? Correct? How long have you been playing the guitar?

SPEAKER_04 1:44

Uh probably since I was 15. 15. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:49

So I started then and then but I started that and I started roping and got my love of horses, and I put down the guitar and stuck with the stuck with the horses, and I I've kind of regretted that. I wish I stuck with the guitar. But I picked it back up a couple years ago. So, Carol, how long have you been playing?

SPEAKER_02 2:08

Oh, probably about 10, 12 years.

SPEAKER_03 2:11

10 or 12 years. Well, you told Miss Shanda a very interesting story last night about how you became Tony's official bass player.

SPEAKER_02 2:20

How I got dragged into this.

SPEAKER_03 2:21

Yeah, which same Miss Shanda got drugged into being on uh on the podcast with me. She she hates being on camera. She she is the official producer, so she's behind the scenes. Everything should be working, right? Or and we are live, we're going live. Um, I don't know if anybody's logged in yet, but it'll record and then you go back and watch it on our on our site. Yeah. So plus we're recording it on the other device and we can send you send you a clip. You Carol was worried about having to edit stuff out. We don't add, we don't edit anyway.

SPEAKER_02 2:51

Sometimes Tony says things. I haven't edited Tony out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:56

Well, if anybody needs edited, it's me because I I um uh you know, I'm you know those filler words. I'm sorry to interrupt you. So tell me how how you got roped into being a bass player for tone.

SPEAKER_02 3:08

Well, I used to go just watch Tony play with his fans, and and one time he lost a bass player, fired him, and he um he handed me the bass. Yeah, he handed me the bass and said, You're gonna have to do this, care. It's the easiest thing in the world. Anybody could do it. And I said, Anybody, anybody can do it? Well, maybe I can then. And so that's when I started playing. But that was in like March, and he was booked all summer. Oh, and so I had to learn so fast, and I was scared, and my fingers got sore, and it was it was hard.

SPEAKER_03 3:43

There's only four strings on a bass. That's so that's so it's way easier than a guitar. That's why it's so much easier. Yeah. Well, funny story, I'll tell you a real funny story about our youngest child. We we have four kids, and and we all love music, but we don't have a lot of musical, natural musical talent. I think we have a couple that have pretty good ears, so they can hear they they hear well, they have they they can sing. But the youngest one went to school here at Utah State, and he called me one day and he said, Dad, I think I'd like to learn to play the bass. And I said, What is wrong with you? No one wants to learn to play the bass first, right?

SPEAKER_04 4:19

You that's not the girl getting right, it's the guitar, it's the guitar that gets the girls, right?

SPEAKER_03 4:24

So that's why it's called a guitar, because it gets the girls, right? Anyway, he said, Yeah, I want to learn to play the bass. So he I bought him a bass and bought him a little amp, and he sat in his and he was a he was in a fraternity here, and but he sat in his room and he learned to play that bass, and then he learned to play the guitar, and he we he wanted a keyboard, and so he absolutely loves music. But now he's graduated and he has a real job and he doesn't spend the time playing like he should. I wish he would, but anyway, and when I introduced him to some of the some of the people we know in the music business, they said, Hey, bass, that's the best instrument to have because you can get a job anywhere. If you can play a bass, everybody's looking for a bass player, right? Yeah, it is it's true. Yeah, yeah, cool. Cool. So you've been playing for Tony now as a duo for how long?

SPEAKER_02 5:14

I think 12 years.

SPEAKER_03 5:15

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 5:16

I think.

SPEAKER_03 5:17

Okay. Yeah. Close, yeah. Close. Now you folks live south of you live down by closer to Payson.

SPEAKER_02 5:25

Right. We live in Salem.

SPEAKER_03 5:26

Salem, Utah. Salem, so um uh how many gigs do you get your year?

SPEAKER_04 5:34

Oh we uh we're not on the road all the time like a lot of these people are. Sure.

SPEAKER_02 5:39

Because we don't we used to spend the winters trying to write new stuff every year.

SPEAKER_04 5:44

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_02 5:45

So we would kind of shut down a little bit. This winter we've been playing all winter.

SPEAKER_04 5:49

Well, we what happened is we Once or twice a month. We won a couple of awards for our music. Okay, and uh after that happened, we were getting some phone calls, and and neither one of us know how to say no.

SPEAKER_03 6:00

So well, we have a little bit of the same problem. We we we want to interview the entire musical world, right? So, so from from you know, emerging artists to longtime uh artists like yourselves and all genres. So we love country music, which is you guys kind of fit in that country mold, but you're more western, western folk, western folk, okay. And and so um we we've done the cowboy poetry gathering in Elko, and uh we got to interview Dave Stadi and several of them. Brent Hill, who's playing here tomorrow night. That's right. But we want to talk about this event because this event's gone on for 16 years. What we try and do now with our podcast is to share these events and hopefully make them destination events, right? So this has gone on for 16 years, they've worked out all the bugs. There aren't any bugs left, right? No, they've got it all figured out, and we're gonna sit down with Dale here in a few minutes when he gets back. I don't know where he went. He went to get a cowboy up. But uh anyway, we uh we look forward to hearing the story, and and we told you before, we love the backstories behind the music. So we got to hear you guys play last night, shared a little bit of that with some of your songs, and Skip Ewing is a plethora of of stories and and 11 number ones.

SPEAKER_04 7:19

Absolutely, he's phenomenal. Incredible. I was playing music in a band in the 90s, in the 80s and the 90s, and we were playing a lot of his music. Isn't that cool? How comes full circle? I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 7:31

We were excited to meet him.

SPEAKER_03 7:32

Yeah, you had never met him before.

SPEAKER_02 7:34

We hadn't, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 7:35

Well, and and it's like we told him, you know, and we tell everybody as much music as we're exposed to with this podcast, we almost have to move on to the next event because once again, we've never had the opportunity to hear you guys play. But I love you had two songs that you played for us last night that are originals that you that that Tony calls love songs that you're not so much in love with, but you obviously you're you signed on, so you're gonna have to play, right?

SPEAKER_01 8:01

Right.

SPEAKER_03 8:02

It's in a contract.

SPEAKER_01 8:03

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 8:04

So tell me tell me the the the first love song you played for us last night. Do you remember? It was bovine love. Bovine Love. And and and Carol does not you don't so did you did you help write that?

SPEAKER_02 8:17

No, I didn't.

SPEAKER_04 8:21

That's on you, huh? Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 8:24

Now I got a question for you. Have you guys do you guys have a have you cut these songs, recorded them, and are they out on Spotify or streaming anywhere? Uh no, not on CD.

SPEAKER_02 8:34

We have what, seven CDs.

SPEAKER_03 8:36

Seven CDs.

SPEAKER_02 8:38

Wow. Yeah. But we haven't figured out streaming. We're not technology.

SPEAKER_03 8:42

Well, the the challenge with the streaming deal doesn't pay very good anyway, so uh it really truly does. Right. But CDs, your your chat your challenge there is find somebody who's got a car or a truck with a CD player in it anymore.

SPEAKER_04 8:56

Yeah, I know. That's that's why we would cut the price down on our CDs.

SPEAKER_03 9:00

Oh Michael has she she's bought herself a new used car and it's oh yeah, it's uh uh almost 20 years old and it has a CD. It's 20 years old, it has a CD player in it. So I actually had a songwriter in Montana said, Byron, did you get a CD? Get one of my CDs, and I said, Stephanie, I don't I don't have any way to play it. She goes, Here, take two. So we used to sell the coasters.

SPEAKER_04 9:24

Coasters, yeah. In fact, I like to say that uh our CDs are a million cellar. We have a million of them in the cellar.

SPEAKER_03 9:32

Well, well, I can appreciate that. You're not the only ones out there. Well, real quick, play us. Well, we don't have to play us a full song, but play us a little bit of of what you played last night. So which one, what what what would you like to play, Carol? Let's ask Carol. Lady's choice.

SPEAKER_02 9:46

Well, both of them last night were it was either Bovine Love or Colonoscopy.

SPEAKER_03 9:52

Colonoscopy and colonoscopy, which I can relate because I've already had one, and you wrote it, and then I'm I'm supposed to have another one here coming up. Wait for the doctor's opposite colleagues schedule. You too.

SPEAKER_02 10:05

Most of our audience can relate to that song.

SPEAKER_03 10:07

Yeah, uh, at uh our age.

SPEAKER_02 10:10

Right.

SPEAKER_03 10:10

Yeah, and uh TMI. All right, well, play us, play us uh a little bit of one you can colonoscopy. I love it. Okay, you guys give it hell.

SPEAKER_02 10:21

Well, this is a song I wrote because as we get older, we get a lot of pressure from the medical community to have medical procedures that don't leave us with a lot of dignity.

SPEAKER_04 10:32

Right.

SPEAKER_02 10:32

So I wrote this song called Colonoscopy.

SPEAKER_04 10:35

It's a love song.

SPEAKER_02 10:36

Yeah, it is not colon song.

SPEAKER_01 10:43

Colonel sound that fun. Tell me it's part of my anatomy. I don't want no one to see. They think you are real good, and they look like no one toin the way it's finger day.

SPEAKER_02 10:59

What the heck's a polyp anyway?

SPEAKER_04 11:01

You got me.

SPEAKER_02 11:03

I went to see my old friendly. He says he's had a colon at dummy. His life just ain't the way it used to be. He's lost a part of his identity.

SPEAKER_01 11:20

He used to spend a lot of time alone. Contemplating life upon the throne.

SPEAKER_02 11:29

Now he's tethered to a bag, no doubt. We can guarantee it ain't takeout.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

That's disgusting. It's part of my anatomy. I don't want no one to say they clean you out real good and they look for no one good. Ain't no way to spend your day.

SPEAKER_02 11:53

What the heck's a pollen anyway?

SPEAKER_04 11:55

I don't know. Hey Doc, can you write a note for my wife? Saying my head is not up there.

SPEAKER_01 12:03

Life without a colon made for me. I don't want no colonies.

SPEAKER_02 12:11

I guess we better let 'em take a peek.

SPEAKER_01 12:15

Sometimes you gotta turn the other cheek. Colin on Scoopy don't sound that fun to me. It's part of my anatomy. I don't want no one to see they clean you out real good. And they look weird.

SPEAKER_02 12:33

Ain't no way to spend your day. What the heck's a polyp anyway?

SPEAKER_04 12:39

Hey Doc, you know, in Arkansas, me and you are considered legally married.

SPEAKER_02 12:44

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 12:49

Oh yeah. That's awesome. That was it's even better the second time.

SPEAKER_02 12:53

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:54

Isn't that a pretty song? That's a beautiful song. Hey, you know what? Uh uh this is just part of the experience here at this gathering. Uh the rendezvous is is got such a huge schedule. I mean, it started last night. Last night was fantastic, but today it starts at three o'clock, officially, right? We're a little early. But uh wanted to to uh kind of let everybody know what's going on. So today at three o'clock, from three to six thirty, they've got the the uh and on the old eFrom stage they've got open mic. So open mic for music as well as poetry. Yeah, and so that's I'm really excited to see that. And then uh on the check wagon stage it's uh Kristen Lloyd at three. 3 30 is Caden Minor, 4 o'clock is Kenny Hall, 4 o'clock is Patty Clayton, and 5 o'clock you guys take the stage, many streams. 5 30 is Chris Mortensen, and 6 o'clock says to be determined. So I don't know, maybe I'm gonna be on the stage. Probably not. I'll be on the first one out of town, that's for sure. Uh at 3 o'clock today on the Sag which Basin Stage, which is where we're at currently, right? Yeah, um, that is uh Ranch Hands Band at 3. 315 is Bob Urray is a poet. Jolynn Kirkwood, poet at 330, 345 is Zach Martinez. Now I know Zach. Do you guys know Zach?

SPEAKER_02 14:17

We know Zach.

SPEAKER_03 14:18

Zach's a great kid. We met Zach in Elko at the Cowboy Poet Together and had him on as a guest on our podcast. So looking forward to seeing Zach again. Uh, Jeff Carson is a poet at 4, 4.15 is Paul Bliss, a poet. Now, Paul was was he last night?

SPEAKER_02 14:33

No, but we're gonna do some things with him on Saturday night. He'll be on Saturday.

SPEAKER_03 14:38

Okay, okay. Kate Miners on that on this stage at 4:30, 445 is Daryl Holden. There's another Utah poet that we had the opportunity to listen to and meet in Elko. Love that guy. He's he's uh we're big fans of Daryl's, great guy, and he actually has written some um uh music with Zach. They've collaborated a little bit, if I remember right. I'm probably speaking out of school. Uh Jolynn Kirkwood's here at 5, 515, Dave Anderson. Thatch Elmers at 530. Now, Thatch is kind of the official MC of this event.

SPEAKER_02 15:12

He's great.

SPEAKER_03 15:13

Now that guy, uh I've never officially met him, want to visit with him while we're here, but he uh he's he's been around the the poetry deal for a long time.

SPEAKER_04 15:22

He's been accountable when when he was this tall, and they'd play in this event, too.

SPEAKER_01 15:27

Yeah, we watched him grow up.

SPEAKER_03 15:28

Um and then uh let's see, that's and then 545 is Bob. Is that Urray? Is that how you say Urie? Uri he's right there. Oh, that's Bob Uri right there. Welcome, Bob.

unknown 15:39

And he's willing to.

SPEAKER_03 15:40

And he's willing to come up and give us a little home. That'd be great. You'd be you're next on stage, buddy. Does that work? And then Kenny Hall is at 6, and 6.15 is Jeff Carson. And then Friday night, tonight, uh the campfire concert's at 6 30, which is Dave Anderson, Caden Minor, and Patty Clayton. And then uh it uh and then there's a dance afterwards. Dance contest and swing dance contest, and they've got all kinds of prizes. They're shopping out here, which is really cool. There's got lots of ladies if you want to come down. It's never too late to show up to this deal, guys. We got all the rest of today, plus all day tomorrow. Starts at eight o'clock tomorrow morning, right? With uh Patriotic and Kids Poetry Contest. All those, a lot of those artists that I mentioned already are gonna be back to play again tomorrow. You guys are playing tomorrow night. Tomorrow night, is that correct? Or tomorrow afternoon?

SPEAKER_02 16:34

Through the throughout the day, two or three times.

SPEAKER_03 16:36

Okay, and then at night.

SPEAKER_02 16:37

And then at night we're gonna do one.

SPEAKER_03 16:39

Okay. Cool. I mean, there's so much and then tomorrow night the headliner's red hill. Uh we had the chance to interview Brid and heard the story about One Hand in the Rig, which is a song that he wrote for Chris Ledou. Chris did the vocals on it, and 20 years later they did a duet, him and his son Ned, which is a pretty amazing cool story. So, anyway, hey guys, thanks for joining us. This has been a lot of fun, and we appreciate you, and we look forward to seeing you more throughout the weekend. Uh, if you're if you're within driving distance, guys, it's worth the trip to Logan. Come check it out. Lots of stuff to do all weekend.

SPEAKER_02 17:20

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 17:21

Yeah, lots of things to see, lots of good entertainment, and they've got out there, they've got uh Western wear clothing, they got leather goods, they got uh scarf slides, anything western is so it's uh good place to shop too.

SPEAKER_03 17:34

It's almost like Cowboy Christmas on a on a on a little bit of a smaller venue. What's that, sweetheart? Oh, food trucks out there as well. Yeah, barbecue, burgers, all kinds of cool stuff. So um, yeah. Anyway, we look forward to can is there can they find you a music?

SPEAKER_04 17:52

Where can they find you have a website? Uh yeah, many strings.net. It's not an active website anymore.

SPEAKER_02 17:58

Many strings.net.

SPEAKER_04 18:00

But uh find us on Facebook.

SPEAKER_03 18:01

Oh, there you go. Yep, and then you can reach out and you're more than happy to send you some coasters. That's right. Yeah, yeah, cool, cool, cool. Well, thank you, Mary Taylor. Much appreciated. Hey, come on up, Mr. Bob. It's okay. We good? Well, we're I'm gonna multitask too. I don't know. This is we haven't done very many live streams, and so we're doing a live stream, but we're also recording this. We'll we'll we'll it'll be available at some point. Bob Byron Duffin. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Welcome, Harry. You talk right there to that. Okay, so I think sit down here and you tell me. Oh, you're gonna you want this stool? Oh no, I don't need a stool. You don't need a stool. I'm old. I got sick. Yeah, I'm good. I'm old. Um, so Bob, tell us about you and your cowboy poet career.

SPEAKER_00 18:53

Well, I started writing cowboy poetry in the 70s, and uh I didn't know that it was a thing, other than I just wrote for myself. Um I uh since I was a kid, I've always wanted to be a cowboy, and my granddad had a farm, and I spent my summers out on his farm, and I just loved the horses and riding horses and doing all that kind of western stuff. And uh in the 70s, I was working on a ranch up in Wyoming, and um I started writing down some rhymes about experiences I'd had, memories that I thought if I put them in a journal, you know, then uh it might make it a little more interesting to read.

unknown 19:43

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

So I just uh I just shared them with family and friends who knew about my history and knew about the stories that I wrote. And and then when they held the first cowboy poetry gathering in Elko, I read about it in the Western Horseman magazine. And I thought, that's interesting. Other people are writing poetry too, and so you weren't the only guy in the world that cowboy gathering. Imagine that. I wasn't the kind of thing a cowboy's told of the cowboys. Well no, they're kind of shy, right? Yeah, so I uh I went out there in '86, the year after they started the Cowboy Poetry Gathering, the second year, and uh I was just amazed. I just loved it, you know, all these people writing similar things to what I wrote. And uh my son was with me, he was about 11, 12 then, and he's he talked me into getting up and doing some poems in uh open session. Yeah. So I did a couple of my poems in an open session. After we got back home, they called me and asked me if I would come out and represent the state of Utah in '87. So that was my first big opportunity.

SPEAKER_03 20:56

That was your early day year into the cowboy poetry and be able to recite it in front of a crowd. Exactly. Yeah. So uh, and I didn't go, I think my first year I went was in '96. And so we've been, I think I've been six or seven times. Michelle's been, I think four or five. But anyway, uh, we love that event. Yeah. And we don't get to go every year. We missed it this year uh because we had a prior commitment. But um uh did you go this year performing?

SPEAKER_00 21:22

No, I I haven't been out there for a few years. Uh uh it's uh uh it's hard to get invited. I I did it about um You should be grandfathered in. I did three.

SPEAKER_03 21:35

I'm not trying to be technical. I mean, you know, no pun intended.

SPEAKER_00 21:39

I did I did uh three times in the 80s and early 90s, and uh uh then well my first wife got sick, and uh so I was pretty busy taking care of her. Sure. And so I didn't uh I did the poetry circuit for several years, uh, all the western states and all the different poets. Portrait gatherings. And when my wife got sick, I kind of put that aside and took care of her.

SPEAKER_01 22:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

Yeah. Once uh you s you start turning down venues, then the word gets out, and pretty soon you don't get invited anymore.

SPEAKER_03 22:14

It's hard to get back on the on the on the ask. Yeah. Well, real quick, share share, share one of your poems with us. We appreciate that and give our viewers a chance to kind of know what cowboy poetry is all about. All right.

SPEAKER_00 22:27

This uh poem I wrote, uh I wrote this for my wife, is called Horse Poor. I bought a horse and I bought some tack and I built a place to keep it out back. Then I bought some hay and I bought some grain and I bought a big tarp to protect it from the rain. Then I was set. I had all that I need. I had a horse and I had some feed. Except I needed a truck. And a horse trailer, too, and a hat and some boots like a real buckaroo. Then I bought me a scabbard to carry my gun. I could use my horse for hunting. Except I only had one, and it's not very safe to go hunting alone, but one horse is all that I owned. So I started looking for another one, a gentle old horse for my wife and my son. Then I bought another saddle and I bought some more tack and I built another stall on the shed out and back. Now the vet bills are more, and the ferry or two. It was fifty bucks. Now it's a hundred for shoes, and the land that I own ain't as much as I need, so I rented some pasture to help with the feed. Then I got another job to pay for it all. I'm working part-time in a store in the mall. With the money I make, I can pay for it fine. Now I'd like to go riding, but I don't have the time.

SPEAKER_03 23:51

Oh, what a great poll. Thank you so much. I can relate on so many levels to that poll because you know we started, I'm a farm boy too, right? And we started getting the horse. I always had horses growing up. I got really serious when I was about 15. I tell everybody I picked up a guitar and a rope at 15 and laid the guitar down and stuck with the rope. Well, I probably should have kept playing the guitar. I picked it back up at 63 or so, 62, 63. But nonetheless, I I I love the horse deal and I love these poems because they're they're they're real life experiences. There's so much truth in that because people say, Oh, yeah, I'm gonna get a horse for my kids. Yeah, and next thing you know, they own tan.

SPEAKER_00 24:30

Well, you know, starting out as a kid, my grandpa had all the equipment. He had the horses, he had the tack, and all that stuff. So I just go out there and just use that. Well, then when I got out of high school, I went to Wyoming to work on ranches. They had everything, you know, they had horses and tack, and never had to really own anything until later when I had to get serious and get a real job and get when I got married, I had to get a real job.

SPEAKER_03 24:57

Right.

SPEAKER_00 24:58

Then I didn't have all the stuff that I wanted, you know, to be a cowboy. So I had to start accumulating. Well, that's how that poem came about because it seemed like there was always one more thing that I needed. There's so much truth in that.

SPEAKER_03 25:11

Bob, thank you so much. Thank you. It's been fun, it's a pleasure to meet you. Look forward to you. Perform throughout the weekend. Thank you. If you're if you're into some cowboy poetry, come on out and listen to Bob and all the other poets that are here. Next up, we're gonna have Dale. Thank you, Bob. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

Thanks so much.

SPEAKER_03 25:27

Here, Dale, you want your stool to sit on to you.

SPEAKER_05 25:30

Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, shoot. Did you see that? That one.

SPEAKER_03 25:42

Did you throw your pick on the floor?

SPEAKER_05 25:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:44

Hey, welcome, Bob. This is Bob Minor, right?

SPEAKER_05 25:48

Bob Minor? Dale.

SPEAKER_03 25:49

Dale, Dale, God. Just got done talking to Bob. Now I got Dale. Dale, Dale. Dale Major. Major. Not minor. See, I got it all fouled up. We'll get it squared away. Well, I won't. I've known you for less than 24 hours. Don't be too hard on me.

SPEAKER_05 26:05

Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_03 26:06

I haven't seen your name written down more than 10 times or heard it screamed in my ear. I can't remember. I'm pretty forgettable, too. So you welcome it my word. And trying to remember all these people that we've met and interviewed and uh and the and the songs that they sang for us. But Dale sang me a song yesterday. We were doing a sound check on the other stage next door, and I couldn't get my guitar to work because I don't know what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_05 26:32

Yeah. And and uh we found they all work though, all the cords are working. Everything's working. The cords are all working.

SPEAKER_03 26:37

Yeah, so yeah. Well, something was wrong with your guitar then. So uh it's the the operator. So because we found out that it's the battery's good in it. The lights up okay. Yeah, but we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. But that being said, so let's tell let's tell the story real quick. So you've been involved with this deal since day one.

SPEAKER_05 26:56

Yeah, it was kind of yeah, it was kind of my idea, and I was able to find when I patched with the idea, hatched, it actually hatched on the way home from uh an event. My kid I'd taken my kids, we've been on the open mic, okay, and drive down a mow. I've been driving home. I thought, why doesn't Cash Valley do something like this? And I looked around, looked around. The car broke down. No, that wasn't the kind of thing.

SPEAKER_03 27:19

Is that your kid back there on the on the soundboard? That's my kid.

SPEAKER_05 27:22

That's Jake on the soundboard. He's my he was my bass player. Now he's grown up and got his own kids. He doesn't play bass. You won't play bass? Because we were just talking about how easy it is. Anyone can play bass. He gets the he gets the digital board and I got the analog. There you go.

SPEAKER_03 27:39

I got the analog board work over here. You sent me two songs yesterday. One's the analog cowboy song.

SPEAKER_05 27:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:45

And the other one was about the fence. Good fences, yeah. So what do you want? Ah man, that let's do the analog cowboy. That's a great song.

SPEAKER_05 27:53

Yeah, see, so this this this stage right here, she has a digital mixer. He's got a digital mixer. Right, right. So he can walk, he can pull it off and walk over here and with it and go out the door here and everything else. The others are all analog, they're just you gotta just sit there. But I wrote this about a friend of mine who uh came to me one Christmas and he kind of upset because his kids had given him a digital camera. And he did not like he didn't want any part of computers, and he still doesn't, but he got it anyway. I said, You're just not a digital guy, so that's how this song came out. There he goes his morning in his pickup after nine. You can tell he's fed his cows from the mirrors, hang the twine. He listens to Old Country on his AM radio. Sometimes he puts an eight-track in that old truck stare me oh. I'll bet that little girl doesn't know what an eight-track is. Do you know what an eight-track is? No. There's an opportunity for someone to teach her about technology. That's probably the only thing you'll ever learn.

SPEAKER_03 28:57

Yeah. She's gotta have a book of matches to go with her.

SPEAKER_05 29:01

Yeah, he doesn't like the Dixie Chicksy grab her hero. He's an analog cowboy in a digital world. The only phone he got is one that's still tied to a wire. He ropes his cattle, horseback, drags them to the brandy fire. He knows you score four wheelers or the internet, of course. He says that ain't we're doing if it can't be from a horse. He wears his haircut short. He wouldn't look like he's a girl. He's a analog cowboy in a digital world. With a piece of faded wire, he can fix most anything. Just don't ever feed him chicken or ask to hear him sing. Don't eat no GPS when he goes riding across his land. Cause he knows he's drawing coolie like the back of his own hand. Can tell a horse's age by the way his teeth have warmed, but he forgets his anniversary and the day his life was born. He proudly sucks a stets and went, oh, glory is a pearl. He's an analogue cowboy in a digital world. Yeah, he's an analogue cowboy in a digital world. We need more analog cowboys in this digital world. He was born about a hundred years too late.

SPEAKER_03 30:30

Oh yeah. Thank you. That is great.

SPEAKER_04 30:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:34

Thank you. Anyways, yeah. Well, so let's talk a little bit about what we've got going on here this weekend. So last night started out with Skip Ewing. Skip Ewing, yeah, it was a great show. Long show, great show. A lot of good stories. Great stories. Oh wow. Yeah. Well, that's the that's the cool thing about songwriters. Yeah, you you just shared an experience of how that came about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's always a story behind the song. Absolutely is, yep. Yeah. And so which we love. Um, and then tonight or today, we're back here starting at three o'clock, technically.

SPEAKER_05 31:03

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 31:03

In about 45 minutes. They'll start right here. Yep. Right here on this stage. You've got open mic. Well, these there's two stages, three stages that'll be fired up. Yeah. So, yeah, but there won't be open mic out there. Uh, those are scheduled out there.

SPEAKER_05 31:16

Those are scheduled. This one is scheduled, and that one is in uh yeah, but I think they got a lot of folks signed up for it.

SPEAKER_03 31:22

So do they awesome, awesome. Well, we look forward to to all the events going on. We we came last night and then drove all the way back to Idaho and got up this morning and drove all the way back down here. So we could be here to interview more of or interview you and more of your artists and share what's going on with our followers and hopefully get two or three people to get in the truck and drive down here.

SPEAKER_05 31:44

Yeah, sure. Uh, you know, a lot of it's free. I mean, we we get some raps fun from the county, and and we're just tickled to have them folks show up. They'll enjoy it.

SPEAKER_03 31:53

Well, there's no question about it. There's so much to do. There's shopping, there's food, there's music, there's poetry, yep, a little bit of everything, and and uh some great people to visit with and get to know, yeah, make new friends. So we uh we appreciate the opportunity to come down here and share this uh experience with our followers. And hopefully this will become if they're not here this year and they can't make it, this will become a destination. Put it on their calendar next week. Put it on the calendar.

SPEAKER_05 32:20

You do it the same time every year, not first same time every year. Yeah, March, about the second week in March. We're getting perfect. Yeah, so perfect. Yeah, all right.

SPEAKER_03 32:28

Well, Dale Major, not Bob Minor. Dale Major, thank you. Thank you for sharing.

SPEAKER_05 32:36

Is he gonna come up? No, he no, no, he just gotta make sure I'm muted.

SPEAKER_03 32:41

Yeah, make sure I'm muted. All right. All right, guys, that's it for right now for Musical Miles Podcast. I'm your host, Byron Duffin here from the Cowboy Cash Valley Cowboy Gat Rendezvous. Rendezvous in Logan, Utah. Come on out and see us. We'll see you somewhere down the road. Adios for now. Today's episode of Musical Miles Podcast is brought to you by Roper Apparel and Footwear. Whether you're chasing songs, loading gear, or standing front row at a live show, Roper blends Western tradition with modern comfort and style, built tough, warm, crowd, and ready for every mile, Roper wear the West.