The California Rose
As I noted a couple posts again, Craig Rullman has embarked on a new film task, on the heels of the effective documentary movie The Exterior Circle: A Film of the Modern West (out there now on Amazon Primary). This subsequent piece facilities close to the Standard Cowboy Arts Association’s 25th Anniversary and a 4-day saddle establish task that includes the elite craftsmen in the area — Cary Schwarz, Troy West, John Willemsma, and Pedro Pedrini. Craig and Jarod Gatley went to Salmon, Idaho, April 2-5 to document the establish. The amazing result is called The California Rose.
Now, if you’re a songwriter and somebody fingers you an impression like a saddle named The California Rose, you know what you want to do. So, yesterday, Mike Biggers and I sat down in The Bunkhouse on Mike’s ranch and received to work. A few hours afterwards, we experienced us a tune — The California Rose.
Don’t know how The California Rose will healthy into the broader undertaking, which is in an early period yet. But we obtained ’er carried out and continue to appreciated the tune in the early morning, which is constantly a very good take a look at. Mike and I have performed new music with each other for quite a few several years now, and he’s an ace songwriter — but right until a short while ago we have not co-composed. This a single never would have witnessed the mild of day with out collaboration. I experienced an strategy and a verse and a chorus, but was completely substantial-centered I just couldn’t get the narrative to bend in the course it required to go. Mike obtained out a tow strap, pulled me off the rock I was superior-centered on, the wheels acquired traction and off we went. It was definitely enjoyment, a fulfilling way to work, and I reckon we’ll do much more of it.
When the time is ideal, I’ll share a recording.
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The TCAA describes their mission:
The Traditional Cowboy Arts Association is committed to preserving and advertising the capabilities of Saddlemaking, Little bit and Spur Building, Silversmithing and Rawhide Braiding and the function of these standard crafts in the cowboy culture of the North American West.
I’ve completed a little bit of riding in my day, but I’ve hardly ever labored cattle and make no promises to “cowboy” standing. For me, “cowboy culture” is part of a broader template of Continuity & Persistence of “frontier” values and daily life-strategies. As these, I am most delighted and honored to be a part of an creative job that seeks to aid us “hold on to the West.”