Radio Interview Saturday, April 25, 2009

The interview can be heard on WPFW 89.3 FM betwen 2pm-4pm

Texas Fred talks to Gigi Amateau author of CHANCEY of the Maury River, a horse story.

Gigi Amateau was born October 20, 1964 in northeastern Mississippi and raised in Mechanicsville, Virginia. A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with a degree in Urban Studies and Planning, she worked for nearly twenty years in Richmond's non-profit community.

Amateau lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband and daughter. She loves reading about John Adams, riding horses in the mountains, gardening with native plants, and watching birds.

Her first young adult novel was Claiming Georgia Tate.

Saturday, January 24, 2009 Play List

'Zydeco Trail Ride'
WPFW 89.3 FM Washington, DC

1)Curley Taylor, "Zydeco Cowboys"-Nothin' Feels Like This
2)Buckwheat Zydeco, "Make a Change in Your Life"-Menagerie: The Essential Zydeco Collection
3)Bruce Springsteen, "Eyes on the Prize"-We Shall Overcome, Teh Seeger Sessions
4)Zydeco Brothers, "Reach Out (Touch a Hand, Make a Friend)-Zydeco Festival
5)Beau Jocque, "A Little Love Always Make it Bettah"-Gonna Take You Downtown
6)Zydeco Joe, "Why Can't We Get Together"-Black Cat
7)Big Red, "I Can Still Remember"-Secret Ingredients
8)Thomas Big Hat Fields, "Scoop It Up"-Louisiana Zydeco Man
9)Boozoo Chavis, "Paper In My Shoe"-Zydeco Trail Ride
10)Guyland Leday, "Empty Wagon"-Welcome To My World
11)Clifton Chenier, "I'm Coming Home"-The Best of Clifton Chenier
12)J.J. Callier, "A Change Gonna Come"-Do You Wanna Dance
13)Lil' Nathan, "Charge it to the Game"-Doin' It Big Time
14)Lil' Nathan, "Billy Goat"-Zydeco Ballin'
15)Keith Frank, "Fight 4 Something So Wrong"-Loved, Feared & Respected
16)Clarence Gatemouth Brown, "Jambalaya"-the man
17)John Delafose, "Sweet Girl In Texas"-Joe Pete Got Two Women
18)Rosie Ledet, "Dance The Zydeco"-Pick It Up
19)Rosie Ledet, "Little Rosie"-Now The Time
20)Jeffery Broussard, "Richest Man"-keeping the tradition alive!
21)Rockin' Sidney, "Sweet Lil' Woman"-My Toot Toot
22)Howlin' Wolf, "Sitting On Top fo The World"-The Silver Collection
23)Big Mama Thornton, "Sweet Little Angel"-In Europe
24)George Jones & Merle Haggard, "All My Friends are Strangers"-Kickin' Out The Footlights...Again
25)Beau Jocque, "Git It, Beau Jocque"-Git it, Beau

Saturday, January 17, 2009 Play List

'Zydeco Trail Ride'
WPFW 89.3 FM Washington, DC

1)Curley Taylor, "Zydeco Cowboys"-Nothin Feels Like This
2)Step Rideau, "Standing Room Only"-Standing Room Only
3)Keith Frank, "Overcome"-Loved, Feared, Respected
4)Rosie Ledet, "Don't Have to Worry"-I'm a Woman
5)Jeremy & The Zydeco Hot Boyz, "Get on Down"-Now, Whacha Gonna Do?
6) Leon Chavis, "Tell Me what you want"-Holla@Me
7)Lil Brian, "Good for the Goose, Good For the Gander"-Worldwide
8)Buckwheat, "Hey Joe"-The Buckwheat Zydeco Story, A 20-Year Party
9)Brian Jack, "After The Rain"-Underdog
10)J. Paul, "Lonely Journey"-Zeality
11)Dr. John, "Food For Thot"-Creole Moon
12)Jon Cleary, "Funky Munky Biznis"-Pin Your Spin
13)Allen Toussaint, "Yes We Can Can"-Our New Orleans
14)Curley Taylor, "Country Boy"-Country Boy
15)Lil' Korey Broussard-Demo
16)Jerome Batiste, "If you Leave me girl"-Jeremiah
17)Guyland Leday, "Hold That Gator"-Welcome To My World
18)Eugene Hideaway Bridges, "Look at Me Now"-Eugene Hideaway Bridges
19)George Jones & Merle Haggard, "Born With the Blues"-Kickin' Out the Footlights...Again
20)Wynton Marsalis, "Premature Autopsies"-The Majesty of the Blues
21)Johnny Guitar Watson, "The Dream, MLK Dedication"
22)King Curtis, "Deep Fry"-Trouble In Mind
23)The Blind Boys of Alabama, "Make a Better World"-Down In New Orleans

Share Your Outdoor Adventures

The Zydeco Cowboy Blog is starting a new series. We want you to write in with your outdoor adventure tales and send pictures to boot to post along with your stories.

On occasion some of the submissions we will be turned into audio features for the upcoming podcast. You will be contacted by our production team to do recorded interviews in order to produce monthly stories.

Start sending those stories in right away. They can be submitted through the comments section or by sending an email to zydecocowboyz@gmail.com

The kind of adventure tales that we're looking for are about camping, fishing, hunting, trail riding ... just about anything related to being in nature's great outdoors.

I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU

I want to know what's on you mind.

Send me your thoughts.

Yeah Ya Right!

COWBOY'Z STILL AROUND

Dear Zydeco Trail Ride Listeners,

I wanted to let you know that the Cowboy IS still here.

In fact I will be launching a subscriber podcast to be available in the coming months.

This way you will NEVER miss a show and you can get your zydeco fix.

There will be daily broadcasts Monday through Friday for your listening pleasure.

I will also have artist interviews, 'Zydeco Trail Ride' gear and much more.

I want to hear from you, so drop me a few lines and tell me what's on your mind.

Hit me up with your "Yeah Ya Rights" aka "Shout Outs" under the comments section.

Zydeco is on the rise y'all!

Clarence "The Bluesman" Turner

Here are some pictures of Cowboy'z in-studio interview with Clarence "The Bluesman" Turner on Saturday's Trail Ride 12-27-08.

Also featured is WPFW's Gator and Mama K from the DC Blues Society.