Women of Western Swing | Christopher Burkhardt's Eclectic American Roots
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- STARTING IN THE 1930S, Western Swing was dominated by males as big bands traveled all over the country playing at dance halls and roadhouses, when they weren’t performing on radio shows.
As western swing gained popularity and Hollywood began recognizing its potential, more women had a chance to shine.
Cindy Walker was just beginning her writing and performing career in 1940, and Bing Crosby had a hit with her song Lone Star Trail which helped kick start her career.
Walker eventually teamed up with Bob Wills - and he recorded near 100 of her compositions : classics like Miss Molly, Bubbles in my Beer and I Hear You Talkin’
Walker wrote her first song, Dusty Skies, at age 12. She also had a career as a singer and a Hollywood actress, but it was her writing that has inspired the current generation.
Women still weren’t big in the western swing genre in the 1950s, but all the male stars recorded Walker’s music: Hank Snow, Webb Pierce, Gene Autry, Spade Cooley and many more.
In recent years, more and more women have come into the spotlight to make their presence known.
Hot Club of Cowtown and k.d. lang made a big splash, and the long-running Asleep at the Wheel has always had female vocalists - and musicians - in its shows.
Bands like the Quebe Sisters, the Carolyn Sills Combo, and Big Cedar Fever are all outstanding!
Individuals who’ve made a mark include Carolyn Martin, Rose Sinclair, Sophia Johnson and our host today, Cheryl Deserée.
Enjoy this detailed look at the current and past Women of Western Swing.
Who is Christopher Burkhardt?
Christopher Burkhardt, owner of Stellar Shows and Concerts and Eclectic American Roots e-Broadcasts, began promoting festivals, country concerts and rodeos in Kalamazoo during his college years.
In the mid-1980s he moved to California and began working with the StarFest country music events at Fairplex in Pomona. .
WildFire Productions (Michael Martin Murphey) asked him to produce a WestFest Magazine for his Colorado and New Mexico WestFests, and he did so to general acclaim.
Burkhardt then helped promote the massive Cowboy & Indian Congress in Scottsdale, Ariz. which brought together Wild West shows, concerts and rodeo action.
In the mid- 90s he published "That's Country" magazine, a national newsstand publication focusing on the entire country and Western lifestyle, with emphasis on Western fashion, dancing, furnishings, rodeo and country music.
He also published the Single Action Shooting Society official program, and the Cowboy Mounted Shooting Assn. Rundown magazine - while competing in those single-action shooting events. He was Reserve Champion in 2007 at the Las Vegas National Finals of the CMSA.
For 16 years, his company, FanCorp Publishing, was the Professional Bull Rider’s official program publisher. helping grow them from their first event into an international powerhouse. He created countless magazines, programs, calendars and posters which those rabid PBR fans collected.
The most popular indoor arena rodeo event in the world - professional bull riding - was only covering the riders when he helped create a blood registry for bucking bulls. He also published Bull Pen magazine, which thoroughly covered the animal side of the sport for American Bucking Bull, Inc.
In 2009, he brought his lifelong cowboy marketing experience to Palm Springs, where he created a rodeo event, the Frank Bogert Memorial Rodeo presented by Spa Resort Casino.
In 2011, he presented the prestigious Western Design Expo, sponsored by Cowboys & Indians Magazine, as well as the TwangFest roots concert (on 4 stages) and the Bogert BBQ Showdown. The 4-day weekend in March 2011 was described as “a Western World's Fair” and included over a dozen bands and entertainers.
As half of the popular B&B’s Musical Thrills concert team, he produced over 500 concerts at the iconic tiki palace Don the Beachcomber.
His desire to continue to bring great roots music to Southern California led him to create Stellar Shows and Concerts in 2017, presenting diverse shows in the fields of rockabilly, honky tonk, western swing, surf and R&B at venues like The Yost Theater, French Quarter, Original Mike’s and Campus JAX.
During the Covid “Damn-penic,” he joined with Tim Ellis of JAX Hideway to produce Eclectic American Roots - 2-hour roots music programs combining interviews and live performances - which are e-Broadcast as Sunday matinee shows at Noon PDT on both Facebook and RUclips.
As always, it is about the music and the musicians. Burkhardt has put over $1 million in the pockets of roots musicians in the past decade, and continues to put the well-being of roots artists at the fore-front of his musical efforts.
I love this. I wish there was an album box set of ALL Cindy Walker songs. I'd even be happy with many different versions of songs by different groups/singers. "It's All Your Fault" belongs in the American Songbook.
Don't forget the Texas Playgirls who played and sang with Bob.
how about Cindy Cashdoller ?
(Reply to Chris)
I don’t think so. I didn’t have this problem with any of your other videos.
This video is messed up, with the sound not matching the image.
More likely it is the speed of your internet connection