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Bruce Douglas "Waddie" Mitchell (born 1950 in Elko County, Nevada) is an American cowboy poet. He sometimes performs his poems with a guitarist playing in the background. [citation needed] Mitchell has made eight CDs including That No Quit Attitude, Lone Drifting Rider and his most recent, Sweat Equity.He and cowboy singer and friend Don Edwards released The Bard and the Balladeer Live From ...
Waddie Mitchell’s poem “Dame Nevada” resulted in multiple appearances throughout Nevada as the state’s official Sesquicentennial Poet for the yearlong celebration. Also, in 2014 Western Jubilee releases Sweat Equity, poetry both old and new and recorded live and in the studio. 2015 offers another milestone with the Western Jubilee ...
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Waddie Mitchell Live. Waddie Mitchell with Norman Blake, Don Edwards & Rich O'Brien. Recorded at The Warehouse Theater in Colorado Springs, Live was renowned cowboy poet Waddie Mitchell’s first album for the Western Jubilee Recording Company. Growing up on ranches in Elko, Nevada, Mitchell came of age engrossed in the lifestyle of the ...
Mitchell recorded his first album of poetry in 1984 in Idaho. His first appearance on Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show" was on June 12, 1986. He appeared again on The Tonight Show with Baxter Black on January 8, 1987. By 1988, Mitchell was the most well known cowboy poet in the country. His poems and those of other cowboy poets touched a chord ...
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More About Waddie Mitchell From Western Jubilee Recording Co. Waddie Mitchell was a real cowboy who became a world-renowned cowboy storyteller and poet, enchanting contemporary audiences with tales of life in the rugged West. He was born Bruce Douglas Mitchell on the enormous Horseshoe Ranch, located over thirty miles south of Elko, Nevada.
Jul 17, 2010 · This year, True West named Waddie Mitchell “Best Living Cowboy Poet.”. Since 1984, this lifelong working cowboy has put out more than six solo albums of cowboy poetry and stories. He’s also one of the founders of the prestigious Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Nevada. In August, you can see him hit the stage in Evanston, Wyoming, at the ...
From his earliest days on the remote Nevada ranches where his father worked, Waddie Mitchell was immersed in the art of spinnin’ tales in rhyme and meter that came to be called cowboy poetry. In 1984, he helped organize the internationally-recognized Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering, where he gave his first public performance.
