Christmas the cowboy way!
With more than 30 years of great entertainment "the cowboy way" under their belts, Riders In The Sky roll on with their mix of Western song classics and zany cowpoke send-ups. This holiday season they're on tour with what we're sure will be a one-of-a-kind program of cowboy Christmas music. What sometimes gets overlooked amid the hilarity is that Ranger Doug (Idol of American Youth), Woody Paul (King of the Cowboy Fiddlers), Joey (the Cowpolka King), and Too Slim (Licensed Driver) are matchless musicians, with a huge and growing stock of old and new songs to draw on as they deepen a great American tradition. And can Toby Keith do rope tricks on stage? Ranger Doug was an Ann Arborite once upon a time, and the group's Ark shows have been uniformly terrific. The opener? Say no more, it's Freddy LaBour! Alter-ego of "Too Slim," "Say No More It's Freddy LaBour" is a one-man, guitar-playing, wise-cracking, wacky original song-singing folk superstar best known for his hit "Who Offed Hoffa?" which topped the charts of the University of Michigan's student cafeteria in 1971.
Also known as the person responsible for propagating the rumor that Paul McCartney was dead (true story) "Say No More" delights the unsuspecting audience with songs ranging from the trucker's lament "My Load Shifted," to his feel-good singalong "The Prozac Polka (La-La Song)." He specializes in impressions of people you probably don't recognize, plus zany late-night commercials (for products like "Garth Does Darth, the # 1 country superstar of the Nineties performs the works of the Lord of the Dark Side, and, if you act now, you also get Darth Does Garth...."), hilarious turns of poetry, and whatever else his fevered imagination can come up with.
But how does this veteran of over 6300 Riders In The Sky shows, creator/writer of hundreds of public radio shows and TV specials, and a darn good yard man, see himself? "I'm the pickle," he says. "You know, you go into a fine deli and order a sandwich, and you didn't go there for the pickle. You didn't ask for the pickle. You never even think about the pickle. And yet, when your sandwich comes, there it is, the pickle. And you like it, and it adds something to the meal. That's me. I give the audience the pickle."
With more than 30 years of great entertainment "the cowboy way" under their belts, Riders In The Sky roll on with their mix of Western song classics and zany cowpoke send-ups. This holiday season they're on tour with what we're sure will be a one-of-a-kind program of cowboy Christmas music. What sometimes gets overlooked amid the hilarity is that Ranger Doug (Idol of American Youth), Woody Paul (King of the Cowboy Fiddlers), Joey (the Cowpolka King), and Too Slim (Licensed Driver) are matchless musicians, with a huge and growing stock of old and new songs to draw on as they deepen a great American tradition. And can Toby Keith do rope tricks on stage? Ranger Doug was an Ann Arborite once upon a time, and the group's Ark shows have been uniformly terrific. The opener? Say no more, it's Freddy LaBour! Alter-ego of "Too Slim," "Say No More It's Freddy LaBour" is a one-man, guitar-playing, wise-cracking, wacky original song-singing folk superstar best known for his hit "Who Offed Hoffa?" which topped the charts of the University of Michigan's student cafeteria in 1971.
Also known as the person responsible for propagating the rumor that Paul McCartney was dead (true story) "Say No More" delights the unsuspecting audience with songs ranging from the trucker's lament "My Load Shifted," to his feel-good singalong "The Prozac Polka (La-La Song)." He specializes in impressions of people you probably don't recognize, plus zany late-night commercials (for products like "Garth Does Darth, the # 1 country superstar of the Nineties performs the works of the Lord of the Dark Side, and, if you act now, you also get Darth Does Garth...."), hilarious turns of poetry, and whatever else his fevered imagination can come up with.
But how does this veteran of over 6300 Riders In The Sky shows, creator/writer of hundreds of public radio shows and TV specials, and a darn good yard man, see himself? "I'm the pickle," he says. "You know, you go into a fine deli and order a sandwich, and you didn't go there for the pickle. You didn't ask for the pickle. You never even think about the pickle. And yet, when your sandwich comes, there it is, the pickle. And you like it, and it adds something to the meal. That's me. I give the audience the pickle."
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