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E-mail Gary
(gary@singingcowboy.com)

OR WRITE TO:
Gary McMahan, P.O. Box 90
Bellvue, CO  80512

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Honors and Milestones
Here are a few mile-markers along Gary's long trail ride:

  • Featured interview on National Public Radio's All Things Considered March 7, 2000
     
  • Feature article in American Cowboy Magazine,  April, 2003
     
  • Guest star and performer on Riders in the Sky's Riders' Radio Theater, a National Public Radio-syndicated, live broadcast. January 25, 1989.
  • Featured performer in the 1989 Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering video, The Best of the Gathering, produced by the National Folklife Conservancy.
  • Published in New Cowboy Poetry: A Contemporary Gathering, edited by Hal Cannon (Gibbs-Smith, publisher, Utah, 1990).
  • Cover photograph and feature article in Song of the West, the magazine of Western and cowboy music, Summer 1990.
  • Named the national champion yodeler by the Western Music Association November 1991.
  • Feature article in Western Horseman Magazine, June 1990.
  • Recipient of the Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame for writing and recording the best original cowboy song of 1992.
  • Feature poem in Western Horseman Magazine, September 1996.

Albums by Gary McMahan

  • Colorado Blue. Released 1980 by HorseApple Records.
  • Saddle 'Em Up and Go! Released 1988 by HorseApple Records.
  • A Cowboyin' Day. Released 1992 by HorseApple Records.
  • Poems and Yodels. Released 1997 by HorseApple Records.

Video by Gary McMahan

Gary McMahan Live! Released 1995 by HorseApple Records.

Book By Gary McMahan

Gary McMahan In Poem and Song Released 1997 by The Record Stockman.

Gary McMahan Songs Recorded by Other Artists

Riders In The Sky

  • Ol' Cowpoke
    (
    from "Cowboy Jubilee,' Rounder 0147)
  • The First Cowboy Song
    (from "Always Drink Upstream From The Herd' Rounder 0360)

Ian Tyson

  • The Old Double Diamond
    (from  "Old Corrals and Sagebrush,' Stony Plain SP5-1106)

Chris LeDoux

  • The Buckskin Lady
  • Real Live Buckaroo
  • Daydream Cowboy
  • Jodie the Rodeo Clown
  • (all from "Songs of Rodeo and Country,' American Cowboy Songs)

  • The Old Double Diamond
    (from "Songbook of the American West," American Cowboy Songs)
  • Back When We Was Kids
    (from "He Rides the Wild Horses," American Cowboy Songs)
  • Rodeo in Montana
    (from "Thirty Dollar Cowboy," American Cowboy Songs)

Horse Sense

The Old Double Diamond
(from "Fences, Barbed Wire and Walls," Kicking Mule Records)

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