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Blue Montana Skies

Montana Cowboy Records

 

 

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 photo of T.J.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 CD Coverof 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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