Montana’s Singing Cowboy T.J. Casey has received dozens
of national awards for singing, songwriting and western poetry.
TJ was nominated in 2003 and 2004 for many awards, including
being
one of the Top 5 Finalists for Rising Star and Western Swing
Album of the Year and one of the Top 10 Finalists for Western
Song and Western Music Male of the Year.
TJ is also published in the "Big Roundup,"
an anthology of the best classic contemporary cowboy poetry
in America.
TJ’s riveting performances on the Louisiana Hayride are
still remembered by thousands for one of the best-known contemporary
western swing songs of our time…his ¾ time "Cowboy's Paradise".
Over the years TJ has opened for many top artistes including
the likes of Ian Tyson, Merle Haggard, and the Everly Brothers.
T.J. Casey’s latest CD, Blue Montana Skies offers 12 tracks
featuring many of his well-known songs including the life-giving
"Trickling Water". This song was chosen for
a national publication, Discover a Watershed-Rio Grande/Rio
Bravo. Since then that song has been on the Sunset Music
Charts at #5 of the Top 10 Western Swing Songs in the World
in 2003 and 2004. Blue
Montana Skies sets out in true western swing style with the
impassioned love-song “(My Only) Turtle Dove”, while “Golden
Memories” reflects a love long held on to.
When love has passed us by we can take solace out on
the road, but as TJ points out “It’s Sure Lonely On This Old
Highway”
With great affection and nostalgia we can soar high with
the eagles and listen to the “Call Of The Wind” as we float
across those “Blue Montana Skies”.
Climb aboard your favourite horse and experience a ride
with a lone drifting cowboy, “He’s Ridden” across valleys and
plains, through blizzards on a mountain top and through the
heat of the dessert and so can you!!!
The gold at the end of
this musical rainbow comes with “I’m Not Convinced”
With romantic sensibility, TJ has a powerful
expressive voice that instantly grabs your attention like a giant
fist grabbing you by the scruff of the neck.
His songwriting offers glimpses of brilliance with lyrics
that paint a brightly coloured portrait of blue skies, towering
mountaintops, sagebrush, the cowboy way of life and the girls
of your dreams. The
album is buoyed up by the talents of a host of top-class musicians
containing a myriad of changing time signatures that TJ wears
like an old and well-worn shirt.
Let Blue Montana Skies swirl in the air around you and
take in a long deep breath.
For more information check out http://www.tjcasey.net
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