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Cowboy Girl
Katy Moffatt
Cowboy Girl
Genres: Country, Blues, Folk, Pop
 
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Fort Worth native Katy Moffatt makes her Western Jubilee Recording Company debut with an acoustic music collection of Cowboys, Texas Rangers, Outlaws, Horses and one Gentleman Bandit. A versatile singer songwriter of Ameri...  more »

     
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All Artists: Katy Moffatt
Title: Cowboy Girl
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Western Jubilee Recording Company
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 2/8/2005
Genres: Country, Blues, Folk, Pop
Styles: Cowboy, Outlaw Country, Classic Country, Traditional Blues, Traditional Folk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 803020118027

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Fort Worth native Katy Moffatt makes her Western Jubilee Recording Company debut with an acoustic music collection of Cowboys, Texas Rangers, Outlaws, Horses and one Gentleman Bandit. A versatile singer songwriter of American roots music, Katy is joined by producer David Wilkie, who also plays mandolin and guitar, and WJRC artist Rich O'Brien, featured on guitar.They say you have to suffer if you want to sing the blues, but if the truth be told, the most memorable American roots music -- be it country, folk or the blues -- is always informed by a simple fact of life: you live and you learn. Just ask Katy Moffatt. Or better yet listen to her sing, be it a song from her own prolific pen or a choice cut from a favorite songwriter. It's clear that Katy sings and writes with the voice of hard-won authority.Debuting in 1976 with Katy on Columbia Records, Moffatt has continued to grow and expand her own artistry. Yet in a career marked by consistent critical acclaim, industry appreciation (a 1985 Academy of Country Music nomination as Best New Female Vocalist), movie appearances (Billy Jack, Hard Country and The Thing Called Love), songs being covered (by such talents as Hoyt Axton and Janie Fricke), and an album that outsold Garth Brooks on the U.K. country charts (The Greatest Show on Earth a.k.a. The Evangeline Hotel, which stayed on those charts for six months), she has had to survive and thrive outside the mainstream.

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CD Reviews

The best of the West!
Frank Sturgis | usa | 09/21/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I bought this because it was on the same label as Cowboy Nation so I took her home and I was totaly blown away buy the realism and feeling her voice has.
If your gonna plunk down 15 bucks this is the one to get!"
One of America's greatest overlooked singers
Peter Durward Harris | Leicester England | 10/10/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is an album of folk-country music sung in a very traditional style, with only guitar, bass and mandolin to support Katy's lovely alto voice. The theme of this album happens to be cowboys, but it's actually a great collection of (mostly) story songs, sung by somebody who clearly loves the music.Katy wrote two of the songs (Black-eyed Caballero, Magdalena and the jack of spades), while her brother Hugh, also a fine singer, wrote another (The ghost light of Marfa). The others are from a variety of sources, including Joe Ely (Indian cowboy), Norman Blake (Ol' Bill Miner) and Tom Russell (Hallie Lonigan), but also several much older songs. By far the most famous is The wayward wind, a song I never tire of hearing, especially when it's done as well as it is here.This album is not one to be played as a background to whatever else you are doing - it requires and deserves your dedicated attention. For that reason alone, it will never sell in huge quantities, but many of those who do buy it will appreciate it all the more. Albums like this are few and far between."