Western Music Association

Lynn Anderson

LYNN ANDERSON could sing before she could talk, and could ride a horse before she could walk. It's been that way all of her life ... horses and music. Lynn likes it best when she can combine the two ... like singing the National Anthem at a gallop on the back of a good horse at the 100th Anniversary of the Fort Worth Livestock Show!

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Telephone: 843-797-5999
Agent: Mike Dempsey

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Ramblin' Ralph Estes

In 'Me and Billy,' New Mexico State Chautauqua troubadour Ramblin' Ralph tells of his days riding and fighting alongside Billy the Kid.

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Telephone: 505-792-1480
323 Morning Sun Trail
Belen, NM 87002

Doug Figgs

Doug is a singer/songwriter who is proud to be called a cowboy. He and his family make their home in Lemitar, New Mexico. Doug and his wife Cathy run a full-time farrier business, raise a few cows and horses, and day work at local ranches every chance they get. Doug is a member of the Western Music Association and has performed at gatherings and rodeos in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho. His three greatest loves are his family, fine horses, and good music.

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P. O. Box 3
Lemitar, NM 87823

Earl Gleason

Earl has been an active member of the Western Music Association and the Academy of Western Artists for many years. He especially enjoys singing the old cowboy songs around the fires at the chuckwagon camps. Earl has been writing, singing songs and talking to people everywhere to encourage interest in preserving the historic sites and the songs of the cowboy days in the Old West. Earl's music is featured in three New Mexico museums and one in Texas.

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Telephone: 505-864-9275
1211 N Mesa Road
Belen NM 87002

R.W. Hampton

New Mexico recording artist R.W. Hampton was been named 2004 Male Performer of the Year by the Western Music Association . A Western music industry leader for over a decade Hampton has eight albums and numerous industry awards to his credit. Hampton is considered by many to be one of America's few remaining authentic "singing cowboys". His life is guided by his faith, his love for his family, and his desire to share cowboy life with his audiences.

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Telephone: 505-483-0042
Lisa Hampton
PO Box 150
Cimarron NM 87714

Paul Harris

Paul comes from Arkansas , and a very musical background. Bluegrass is where his roots lie and you can hear it in nearly every tune he writes and plays. Along the way he discovered cows and horses, and that started a love affair with the cowboy way of life that to this day is his whole reason for living. He is most happy when he is horseback in open country. “Lookin at the south end of a north bound cow,” as he likes to say it. He tells folks, “I like to think I did it like they did in the old days, I wasn’t ranch raised, but I felt the calling of the west and followed it. Just like the old sayin' about goin' west young man, I did.” Now when you ask him where he is from he will tell you, “I'm from out west somewhere, where the wind meets the wire.” In the early 1990s, Paul "saddled up" and moved to Nashville , but it didn't take long to figure out that a guy with horses and cattle on the brain and in his songs wasn't going to go very far in that town, so he followed his heart. Paul never let his guitar go idle, he took his love of music and fused it with his love of “cowboy’n” and started down a path that has led him to where he is today. Paul is a member of the Western Music Association, and regularly performs around the country at poetry gatherings and "any place that’ll let me get up and play.” He has started writing cowboy poetry as well. “It is a new and exciting thing for me. I am really enjoying writing poetry and I am always trying to improve my writing.” To listen to Paul sing and perform, there is no doubt about his bluegrass roots. His music is also very heartfelt. If you listen with your eyes closed, you can see and hear about the places he has been and the things he has done and seen. He is a storyteller, and can put you right there with him, riding along some canyon, chasing an old maverick steer, waiting for that good shot to rope.

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Telephone: 501-920-0899
HC69 Box 26
Rociada, NM 87742

Eddy Harrison

I grew up on Country Music, Western Music, Gospel Music and Folk Music. I began singing in a little country church and at age 14 I got my first guitar. My first performances were for my school classmates and parties. At 21, I was fronting for a dance band that played all over New Mexico, West Texas and Southern Arizona. At 23, I wrote my first song. I also build world class Jumbo Acoustic Guitars and inlay them with real turquoise.

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Telephone: 575-635-5370
690 Hummingbird Dr.
Las Cruces, NM 88007

Sid Hausman

Sid Hausman is a songwriter and cowboy balladeer who strikes a chord for times that hearken back to when most of this country was rural. Hausmann’s philosophy is that songwriting is much like photography; he considers his songs to be musical pictures of both the past and present. Sid blends folk and bluegrass into Western Music that reflects the essence of the peoples and animals of the West.

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Telephone: 505-982-1513
P. O. Box 429
Tesuque, NM 87574

Jim Jones

Jim is a native Texan, a student of the West and a life-long devotee to all things cowboy. His songwriting, guitar-picking and unique vocal style keep him in demand on the Western music circuit as well as at coffeehouses, schools and libraries throughout the West. He has produced seven Western albums, three children's character education videos and two Western novels. He was named AWA 2008 Male Western Vocalist of the Year and his song, "The Cowboys of New Mexico," received the New Mexico Music Award for the Best Western Song of 2009. His song, "King," which he co-wrote with his mother, received the Western Writers of America Spur Finalist Award for Best Western Song of 2010 and the song, "Smoke of the Brandin' Fire," which he co-wrote with Allan Chapman has been chosen as a finalist for the NM Music Awards 2011 Western Song of the Year. His first novel, Rustler's Moon, was a NM Book Awards finalist for Best Historical Novel and Best First Book. Jim lives in Corrales, NM with his wife, Ann and their three dogs, Waylon, Jessie and Colter. (Photo by Lori Faith Merritt)

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Telephone: 505-321-5444
P. O. Box 2264
Corrales, NM 87048

Pete Laumbach

Born and raised in Harding County, NM, Pete is a composer and entertainer of upbeat Southwestern songs. He has performed his own original and unique brand of music throughout parts of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee. Pete has been invited and has participated in several festivals and showcases including the Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium each year since 1991. Pete has written over 100 songs, some of which are included in his book, "Penning The Wild Ones."

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Telephone: 806-252-4454
100 Lecheguilla Rd.
Hope NM 88250

Kyle Martin

I was born in Denison, TX in 1979. My Father owned a small ranch in south eastern Oklahoma at the time. He also sold ropes and was a professional rodeo cowboy. He met my Mother (a Bakersfield, CA transplant) in Oklahoma in the late 70's. They were married and had myself and my sister. With family in tow my Father returned to his native home of New Mexico when I was very young. There I grew up on my families ancestral 47,000 acre working cattle ranch. Looking back it was an experience few could ever know or understand. We were raised in the saddle, literally. I developed a love for the western lifestyle and culture at an early age but there was one love that would top them all, music. My entire family is musical in some way and I have been influenced by each one of them a great deal over the years. My Father however, being a fairly diverse individual himself, was and had always been a performing musician. Upon arriving in New Mexico he promptly started a band. By the age of 12 I was sitting in with him and by 13 I began playing in the band full time. As I got older my musical tastes became more diverse and I began to explore different genres. After graduating High School I left my home town of Socorro, NM. I moved several different times over the following years. With each stop I invested myself in a new musical pursuit. Over the last 17 years I've been lucky enough to play in a lot of different places; from the New Mexico night club scene to Oklahoma City's "Bricktown" to Memphis, TN on Beale Street to the Las Vegas Hilton. Over the last 5 or 6 years however I've been proud to call Albuquerque, NM my home. I am currently pursuing a personal career in music which is playing out right up unto this very sentence. I can be found playing in venues all over New Mexico and the southwest and am booked for months at a time. I will have played over 100 dates by the end of this year alone. 2011 has been very good to me. Live television, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Alan Jackson’s’ official after party and the New Mexico State Fair are just a few places I’ve played this year. With the release of my 2nd solo album in July I hope to make a statement in the music community that will be heard for years to come…

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Telephone: 505-573-2047
Albuquerque, NM

Richard Martin

Richard Martin grew up working on ranches in eastern New Mexico’s Canadian River area. He has been a competitive team roper for many years. He plays Americana folk music and many of his songs reflect the country way of life. He has loved and played music most of his life. He has played with many well known country bands in New Mexico and on the road. Richard has retired from Central New Mexico Community College and concentrates on writing and performing his songs as well as many other artists’ songs. Richard has recorded three CDs (Mail Box Money, Bringing Water To The Land and Morning Coffee) and played at the 2009 Durango Cowboy Gathering and performed at the Crossroads Poetry and Music Festival in Van Horn, Texas. He also played at the 2010 New Mexico Music Awards and the 2010 Western Music Association show. He lives in Embudo, New Mexico with his wife Edna who accompanies him from time to time. Richard enjoys hunting with his hawk, (he is a licensed falconer), and playing solo and duo gigs around the Southwest. Richard Martin is a winner of the 2010 NEW MEXICO MUSIC AWARDS.

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Telephone: 505-852-2117

Syd Masters

Syd is a singer and songwriter of western music. He is the author and recording artist of the Official State Cowboy Song of New Mexico, making him the only person in the United States to hold such an honor. The Western Music Association, Academy of Western Artists and The New Mexico Music Industry have combined to nominate him for more than 60 awards over the past decade. “Vocalist of the Year,” “Country Song of the Year,” “Best Album,” Best Band,” Most Humorous Song,” and “Best Song” are some of the categories in which he was victorious. Earlier this century the US Department of State named him Cultural Ambassador for his work entertaining the secret service departments of 26 foreign countries in the Diplomatic Security Antiterrorism Assistance Program.

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Telephone: 505-281-5221
32 Salida Del Sol Trail
Edgewood, NM 87015

James Michael

James Michael began performing at rodeos and county fairs as a teenager and has sung and played his guitar for audiences large and small all across the West. His father was a professional rodeo cowboy and many of the songs he performs were learned from rodeo cowboys. He has also written western songs including "Turn To Die", "Lone Cone Peak", "Rodeo Cowboy" and the title song on his new CD "All American Cowboy".

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Telephone: 575-382-9228
4980 Baylor Canyon Rd
Las Cruces, NM 88011

Doug Muchmore

Doug owns and lives on a very remote cattle ranch in the heart of New Mexico. He retired last year from a long teaching and Real Estate career but has owned the LIB ranch since 1988. Doug loves and respects the land and way of life he is now able to live full time. His descriptive, true-to-life, narrative style of writing draws you into his world and passion for ranch life. He began playing guitar and writing some very basic songs at age twelve but only began playing in public about four years ago. To date he has written several hundred songs and has released one album, which received some very favorable reviews from several sources, and has three more in production. Two of those albums are live and one is exclusively about New Mexico but all have a rare and rich sense of "ranch life" which he has become so closely associated with. You will find his work to be genuine and his performances smooth and sincere.