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Trails & Rails Video Shoot
July 12th, 2008
7:30 PM
Channel Twelve 25
172 East Main Street
El Cajon, CA.
www.channeltwelve25.com
Steve and Odie Goward have opened a new venue on Main Street in El Cajon, CA. Called Channel Twelve 25, it is primarily a studio designed to teach performance skills to emerging musicians. But they also have a stage with lights and video capability, which they have opened to established musicians who need to create a video for their web site or promotional package.
Video Shoot at Channel Twelve 25 in downtown El Cajon, CA.
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out our latest CD
"We like listening to this collection.
The more we listen, the better it gets."
Darrell Arnold
Cowboy Magazine review
Spring 2008 |

www.westernmusic.org
June 2008; The Top Ten Ballot for the Western Music Association is out
and Trails & Rails has eleven nominations!
Including 4 of the Top Ten Songs and they are all from this CD!
The songs are: "Ghosts of Tombstone", "Best Dang Life", "Cold Northern Wind" and "Thinkin' 'Bout Montana".
The first three were written by Bruce Huntington who was also nominated as Songwriter of the Year. And the last one was written by Les Buffham in collaboration with Walt Richards.
Les Buffham was named Poet of the Year for the Western Music Association in 2007 and is on the list again for this year - 2008.
Walt and Les have two nominations on the current ballot for Best Poet-Songwriter Collaboration - including "Ten More Miles" and "Thinkin' 'Bout Montana".
Walt Richards is also nominated for Instrumentalist of the Year and Trails & Rails is nominated for both the Crescendo Award and Traditional Group of the Year.
The entire CD is nominated for Best Traditional Album of the Year. Wow!

Read
about Walt & Paula
in the February 2008 San
Diego Troubdour
"Walt
& Paula, Please accept my apologies. I said that your new CD (Ghosts of Tombstone)
is great. I was wrong......the word is AWESOME !! We're sitting here on Wednesday
night (November, 2007) listening to it for the 942nd time ! (OK, maybe a slight
exaggeration . . .) Please extend our congratulations to Bruce & Ken and everyone
else involved in the production of this GREAT album !"
-- Esther (for
Rich & Esther Dollarhide - Tombstone Western Music Festival)
"The
songs on "Ghosts of Tombstone may be classified as western music, but they
are much more than that. As you listen to this disc, you'll experience life's
journey sung through the western landscape. Tex, Rex, Hopalong, Gene and Roy would
be proud!"
Review
of CD by Allen Singer
San Diego Troubadour
February 2008 |
"I've
now listened to "Ghosts"at least once a day, every day for two weeks.
Some days I've listened to it several times. Thank you for making this CD;
it is one of the most enjoyable records I have ever listened to.
It is
one of the only records I've ever heard where I really like every single song.
--
John Bartlett, San Diego luthier and author ~ December 2007
"...your
CD's arrived OK ...I am enjoying them very much! Really great stuff!"
--
ChuckarooThe Buckaroo;
Calling All Cowboys Radio,
Bend, Oregon ~ January 2007
"I
can't help but play this infectious song every once in a while"
...regarding
'Best Dang Life' -- in an e-mail from Marvin O'Dell,
Around the Campfire host
on Heartland Public Radio ~ February 2008
"I
have that waltzing around the Linden Tree song going around in my head;
I
must have played it at least five times today as I was driving around.
That
is a super song!"
--
e-mail from author Tom Leech ~ April 2008
"The
songs are really cool! I can't wait till I can hear you play live!"
Sincerely,
Calvin
Barrett ~ Age 8
March, 2008 |

In
2006 and again in 2007,
Trails and Rails placed on the Top Ten Ballot for
the
Western Music Association Awards in the following categories:
"Night
Train Down the Yellowstone", from the Trails & Rails CD "From Way Out West",
was voted #3 of the Top Ten Single Western releases for 2006 as chosen by the
Heartland Public Radio Panel.
Duo
Harmony Winners
Western Music Association Festival
November 2005


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