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6 days ago | 
cowboysindians.com | Hunter Hauk
Just about everyone who’s anyone in country music right now graced the Texas stage and the Amazon streams during the 60th ACM Awards earlier this evening. And while the stars of the present and future certainly made their impact (see Zach Top and more below), it was the living legends who brought supreme emotional heft to the proceedings.
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1 week ago | 
cowboysindians.com | Hunter Hauk
You should already be hip to the basic details and the big-award nominees for Thursday’s 60th ACM Awards, airing live from Texas. But did you know that some winners have already been announced? Here’s a look at a few of the early 60th ACM Awards trophies handed out so far:NEW FEMALE ARTIST OF THE YEARThe breakout award for female artists has already been announced: ELLA LANGLEY took home the prize, beating out fellow nominees ASHLEY COOKE, DASHA, JESSIE MURPH, and KASSI ASHTON.
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1 week ago | 
cowboysindians.com | Hunter Hauk
Time to put on your boots, mix a drink, and sing along to one of the greatest televised country concerts of the year: The 60th ACM Awards (Academy of Country Music). And this year is extra special thanks to the anniversary. Here’s everything you need to know about the May 8 ceremony — how to watch, what performances to expect, who’s hosting, and who’s up for the biggest award of the evening?
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2 weeks ago | 
cowboysindians.com | Hunter Hauk
There are roughly 1,500 miles between Nashville and Ian Munsick’s hometown in Wyoming. But he’s managed to close that wide-open gap with truly western music — the kind that’s been missing on country radio stations for years. Munsick sat down with Cowboys & Indians before his album release show in Nashville in April to talk about how just about everything in his ranch-life upbringing in Wyoming is woven into these 20 tracks.
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1 month ago | 
cowboysindians.com | Hunter Hauk |Kaylee Brister
When Arkansas native Ashley McBryde became an official member of the Grand Ole Opry in 2022, her tears of gratitude flowed freely, and the crowd of country traditionalists was captivated. Folks there that night could see what was going on inside her mind as she sang her hit ballad “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” before fellow artist Terri Clark inducted her. And if they didn’t know how bowled over she was in the moment, they knew soon after when McBryde gave her remarks.
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1 month ago | 
cowboysindians.com | Hunter Hauk
Fresh from a piano lesson, Ghost Hounds lead singer SAVNT walks in the door of a quiet coffee shop on the outskirts of Denver ready to have a long conversation about the road that led him here. You can tell he’s ready to lead a band to the next level. He sure looks the part in boots, jeans, a casually unbuttoned vintage-looking shirt, and silver jewelry everywhere you look. He might be learning his way around the keyboard, but he’s mainly here to talk about his singing.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
cowboysindians.com | Tyler Hicks |Hunter Hauk
It was 2005, and 18-year-old bull rider J.B. Mauney couldn’t shake the feeling that something was growing inside him. He knew the pain’s origins, of course. The previous night, at an event in Raleigh, North Carolina, a bucking bull weighing roughly 1,500 pounds (give or take a couple hundred) had stomped on Mauney’s chest.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
cowboysindians.com | Hunter Hauk |Tyler Auffhammer
One flip through the new coffee table book Alpenglow (available now from Gibbs Smith), and you’ll want to head for the mountains immediately. Forged from a friendship and creative collaboration between two women with plenty of Wyoming grit, the book is subtitled “Outdoor Celebrations for Every Season” and documents just that. Hillary Munro wanted to apply the lessons of mountain entertaining to all seasons in the book.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
cowboysindians.com | Elizabeth Kaye McCall |Hunter Hauk
The world knew Elvis for his music, his movies, and even for his motorcycles. People close to him knew him for his love of horses. A rich part of his personal life that largely escaped public view, his equine devotion opened to the world in 2009 when the stables at Graceland opened to the public in Memphis, Tennessee. “Actually, Elvis was a little bit afraid of horses at first because of something that happened on a movie set,” says Alene Alexander, Graceland’s stable supervisor.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
cowboysindians.com | Brian Hurlburt |Hunter Hauk
At the South Point Arena in Las Vegas, 11 world titles were awarded on Saturday night, October 26, following the final round of the 48th Annual Indian National Finals Rodeo (INFR). Each champion put on a heck of a show, but there were five showstoppers in particular that we noticed during the prestigious, culture-celebrating annual rodeo spectacular. Quinley and Quinton InmanThis is an easy one.
