Cowboys and Indians Magazine has called him, the Charley Russell of Western Music.  He has been bucked off and stomped by many horses.  He has been stepped on by mules and dragged around branding pens by cattle of many sizes.  He's ridden in the rain, in the snow, in the rain some more, in pretty nasty heat, and in feedlot pens where the air was thick and decidedly fragrant. He's even wrangled dudes. As an entertainer now, and makes his living inflicting himself upon innocent people at music festivals, agricultural banquets and backyard barbecues. He has been twice voted Entertainer of the Year, three times Male Performer of the Year and twice Songwriter of the Year by the Western Music Association, and received the Will Rogers Award from the Academy of Western Artists. He's delighted audiences in fourteen states, and finds that he prefers this to being stomped by angry horses. He lives in Nipomo, California.  He bets you don't know where that is.