Trails & Rails
Ghosts of Tombstone
© 2007 Walt Richards (634479673887)
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Introducing eight original songs about the West - six of them by songwriter extraordinaire, Trails & Rails' bass-playing Bruce Huntington - as well as two Les Buffham (Yes, the one and only, Les Buffham)/Walt Richards collaborations.
*Alert - Just in! (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 was named Poet of the Year for the Western Music Association in 2007 and is nominated again this year. And Walt and Les have two nominations on the current ballot for Best Poet-Songwriter Collaboration:"Ten More Miles" and the Montana song. Walt is also nominated for Instrumentalist of the Year and Trails & Rails is nominated for both the Crescendo Award and Traditional Group of the Year. And the entire CD is nominated for Traditional Album of the Year. Wow!
Now where were we - Oh, yes . . .
The title track, "Ghosts of Tombstone", written by Bruce and sung by Walt, was chosen to open the 2007 Tombstone Music Festival. The 'spirited' tales of the song are enhanced by Ken's guitar and Walt's banjo.
Another ghostly offering, "Cold Northern Wind", has a different (and just as intriguing) story to tell.
Guest vocalist, Ken Graydon joins us to sing one of his most requested songs, "Windmill". Ken's version was recorded on tape in 1983 and is not readily available. We think the song (and Ken) deserve a wide audience - we're happy to include them on this CD.
"Below the Kinney Rim" (more Les Buffham lyrics - with tune by Mike Fleming) is destined to become a classic in it's own time. A number of artists have already recorded it.
Do you like the mystery of a minor key? Try "Ten More Miles" and "San Miguel" - two unresolved stories that have several possible endings . . .
Well, we could go on this way about each song. But enough about what We think! We hope you'll be able to take a few minutes to hear them for yourself-