Name Waddie Mitchell | Role Poet | |
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Albums Buckaroo Poet, That No Quit Attitude, A Prairie Portrait Similar People Don Edwards, Baxter Black, Red Steagall, Michael Martin Murphey | ||
National cowboy poetry gathering waddie mitchell recites the walking man
Bruce Douglas "Waddie" Mitchell (born 1950 in Elko County, Nevada) is an American cowboy poet. He sometimes performs his poems with a guitarist playing in the background. Mitchell has made eight CDs including That No Quit Attitude, Lone Drifting Rider and his most recent, Sweat Equity.He and cowboy singer and friend Don Edwards released The Bard and the Balladeer Live From Cowtown. Mitchell has written four books, Waddie's Whole Load, A Cowboy's Night Before Christmas, Lone Driftin' Rider and a 2015 compilation One Hundred Poems. He was chosen to write a poem describing the West for the 2002 Winter Olympics' Olympic Arts Festival. He is a co-founder of the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
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- National cowboy poetry gathering waddie mitchell recites the walking man
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The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum presented the 2012 Wrangler Award for Best Original Composition of the year to Guy Porter Gillette (1945-2013) and his brother, William Pipp Gillette (born 1946), sons of the photographer Guy Gillette, for their work on Mitchell's song, "Trade Off."
