Don Edwards continues to build a legacy enriching our vision of the American West. In his tales of the day-to-day lives and emotions of those who have lived it, his ballads paint a sweeping landscape of both mind and heart, keeping alive the sights, sounds and feelings of this most American contribution to culture and art. The quality of this cowboy balladeer’s music stems from the fact that he is so much more than a singer. An historian, author and musicologist, someone well-versed in cowboy lore and musical traditions, Don brings a rare complement of knowledge of and love for his craft. Mostly though, there is the soul of a poet; a man who has never succumbed to any temptation to present a glamorized or romanticized version of the West. Edwards deals with bad weather and petty motivation, with sadness, nostalgia and longing as parts of the landscape like any other. The son of a vaudeville magician, Don was exposed as a child to a vast cross-section of music from classical to jazz, and blues to western-swing. Many of those influences enter his own music as they did some of the music of the West. Edwards was drawn to the cowboy life by the books of Will James and B Westerns of the silver screen, particularly those featuring “sure-‘nuff cowboys” like Tom Mix and Ken Maynard. He taught himself guitar starting at age ten, and chased the rodeo and worked ranches in Texas and New Mexico during his teens. In 1961, he got a job as an actor/singer/stuntman at Six Flags Over Texas and he was to stick with music from then on. The richness of Don’s voice coupled with his magical stage presentation makes Don Edwards America’s number one western singer. The accolades have been simply bonuses for Edwards, who sings what he does out of love and respect for our western heritage. |
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