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Viva La Cowboy
Not all composers can sing, but Dan Roberts can! No doubt about
it! He sounds like a cowboy... you'll hear a superb combination
of vocal talent, first-rate compositions and crackerjack musicianship."
and... "The album doesn't "rock" like so much of
today's country music does, but it surely does swing in the best
Texas swing and honky tonk tradition!"...Working Cowboy.com
A portion of the proceeds from this disc will be donated to Cook
Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth
1. Fort
Worth, Texas
2. Angelina
Dance
3. Swingin
‘Til We Can’t See Strait
4. Late
Night Swingin’
5. Only
in Texas
6. I’m
the One to Call
7. The
Beaches of Cheyenne
8. Tucumcari
Woman
9. I’m
Thinkin’ It
10. Wolves
11. Full
Moon Turn around
12.
Viva La Cowboy
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 There's
A Little Cowboy
In All of Us
"There's A Little Cowboy In All Of Us,"
produced by Texas Swing legend Tommy Allsup, brought Dan Roberts
full circle to the very heart of the kind of music he loves
to write and sing about, pieces of cowboy life. Among his most
requested songs are his patriotic tribute to John Wayne and
his humorous take on "Horse tradin". His single, "Saddle
Pals," is in honor of cowboys who know each other in and
out because of the many miles they've traveled together
1. Theres
a little cowboy in all of us
2. The
Yellow Stud
3. The
swing I love the most
4. Old
Cowboy Blues
5. Palomino
Pal of mine
6. True
Blue Heeler
7. Saddle
Pals
8. I Miss
John Wayne
9. Unswung
10. The
Hero is a Clown
11. Horsetradin
12. Don't
bury me in Tennessee
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Cowhand.Com
Not only is Dan's music good dance music, but it is seasoned
with a bit of humor, as in songs like "Cowhand.com."
The title cut takes a humorous look at the adventures of a cowboy
who hires onto an outfit that is basically run by computers, not
seasoned cowboys. Dan takes the misadventures of this technologically
challenged cowboy who longs for the "old days" and turns
them into a knee-slapping song.
1. Cowhand.Com
2. If
they only knew a cowboy
3. Stallions
4. The
Grip
5. You
can’t make a cowboy sing the blues
6. One
gate from home
7. A
trucker’s just a cowboy
8. Wranglers,
ropers, & resistols
9. Roped
into love
10. The
cowboy song
11. Horses
in heaven
12. Triflin’
state of mind
13. Everybody’s
hocked a saddle
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The "star on the rise" moved to Nashville to pursue
a career as a song writer after seeing a television show about
songwriters and the song writing community in Music City. "I
slept in my truck when I first got to town because I didn’t
know anyone here," Roberts says with a wry grin. The young
man was soon networking within the music community writing with
other writers.
He started to get a few cuts here and there and met up with another
new singer/songwriter in town, Garth Brooks, with whom he often
traded original material and cowboy songs around a campfire.
After moving to town, Roberts was making his living mainly in
construction and by working as a horseshoer. Even though he was
writing songs and getting a few cuts in those early years, the
music wasn’t taking off for him the way he thought it would
and Dan decided to move west and go to work on a cattle ranch.
A phone call changed his mind. It seemed Garth was getting ready
to write his next album and, remembering Dan’s song writing
talents, called to ask if he was interested in writing with him.
The move west was postponed and Dan sat down to write with Brooks
and songwriter Bryan Kennedy. Together they co-wrote "The
Fever," "The Old Stuff," and the song that would
turn the corner for Dan, the poignant rodeo cowboy song "Beaches
of Cheyenne." It was a chart-topping runaway hit for Brooks,
and Garth promptly asked Dan and Bryan to join him on his tour
later that year. They were the opening act for 260 shows in 60
cities, playing before more than three million people. They opened
more shows for Brooks than any previous opening act. That experience
helped Dan hone in on the dream that he had to sing and record
cowboy western music.
Roberts is steeped in western traditions. He grew up in Oregon,
in a family that sang together. By the age of five he was singing
four part harmony with the family group, the Melo-Ds. "I
have been blessed with a great family," Roberts says, "One
that taught me the values of integrity, honesty and hard work.
So much of those traits are the traits of the cowboy. The cowboy
was and is who I want to be about."
With his debut release, Dan’s music caught on quickly and
he became very much in demand at cowboy gatherings across the
country, including The Santa Clarita Poetry & Music Festival
in California and the Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium in Ruidosa,
N.M. As a newcomer to cowboy western music, Dan was nominated
for the Academy of Western Music’s Rising Star Award as
well as "Single of the Year" for "Saddle Pals."
The success of his first album prompted him to start writing
songs for his second release, "Cowhand.com," released
in September 2000. "I love the traditions of cowboy western
music, but I’m trying to forge my own style," says
Dan. "It’s definitely cowboy music you can dance to.
The audience usually starts with a toe tap, but my favorite part
is when the music pulls them to the dance floor."
Not only is his music good dance music, but it is seasoned with
a bit of humor, as in songs like "Cowhand.com." The
title cut takes a humorous look at the adventures of a cowboy
who hires onto an outfit that is basically run by computers, not
seasoned cowboys. Dan takes the misadventures of this technologically
challenged cowboy who longs for the "old days" and turns
them into a knee-slapping song. Upon the release of his second
album, Roberts and his family (wife Carol, son J.D. and daughters
Austin and Maggie) moved to a small ranch west of Fort Worth.
"I found myself playing a lot of dates out West and always
flying in and out of the DFW airport," Roberts says. "We
took a hard look at everything and decided to move to Texas. If
you’re writing cowboy music, it only makes sense to be in
cowboy country, and what better place than the Lonestar State!
I believe cowboy/western music could be huge if more people were
exposed to it. I’m going to do as much as I can to see that
they get that chance."
Though his days of riding broncs and bulls are over and his farrier
work has dwindled to just shoeing his own horses, Roberts is just
as involved in the cowboy way of life as ever. He has taken up
team roping and hopes to find time to do a little of that in between
heading down the trail to the cowboy gatherings and writing songs
about the way of life he knows and loves.
Reviews
 "Dan
Roberts has lived the songs he sings. Life laughter, and a feel
for being there comes through Dan’s songs.Anyone who loves
the western lifestyle will enjoy this music." "From
the topsy turvy, fast paced, live on the razors edge,laugh in
the face of danger world of pro rodeo!" —
Lyle L. Sankey, NFR Qualifier, SB, BB, BR, PRCA
world champion bullrider
Dan on Deep Water, 1980 PRCA "
bucking horse of the year
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December:
Hot Springs, ARK 12/02/04 4:30 Farm Bureau
Warton, TX 12/03/04 7:00 John Deere Corporate Party
Las Vegas, NV 12/10/04-12/13/04 NFR
January 2005:
Houston, TX 1/7/05-1/9/05 all day Texas Association of Fairs and
Events
Fort Worth, TX 1/15/05 5:00 Kick off party for the Fort Worth
Stockshow and Rodeo...Ranching Heritage Weekend
Elko, NV 1/26/05-1/29/05 All Day National Poetry Gathering with
a Thursday night concert
Fort Worth, TX 1/29/05 7:00 Angus Association
February:
Fort Worth, TX
2/13/05 8:00 Private Party
June:
Fort Worth, TX 6/3/05 7:00 Private Party
Fort Worth, TX 6/4/05 4:00 Chef Event for the Refuse to Lose Campaign
To Contact Dan
Old Boots Music
P.O. Box 923 Aledo,
Texas 76008
Phone: 817-599-5181
Fax: 817-599-5242
E-Mail:
danroberts@oldbootsmusic.com
Publicity Contact:
For Publicity Information contact:
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817-579-5405
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