Songs of Couch and Consultation - (CD)
Commentary Records - 1957

I can't believe that this was the second album I made, complete with a huge band and several fabulous musicians. (I'm a folksinger, after all - this spoof on psychoanalysis is more like musical comedy!) It was done in Hollywood in two sessions with Bob Thompson arranger and director; Bud Freeman--with his own label now wrote the lyrics--and Leon Pober, the music.

$25.00 - Postpaid

Maude, Billy & Mr. D - A Folk Opera - (CD)
Katydid Books & Music - 1956 -1981

Way back in the mid fifties, I read a story in the Saturday Evening Post titled,"The Rider on the Pale Stallion", written by Helen Eustis, an author well regarded back then in the heyday of folk music and folk tales. Her story simply cried aloud for music and rhyme, so I began making it into a Folk Opera--writing lyrics and music, using the author's words in-between the songs to keep the story intact.

$30.00 - Postpaid

The Last Wagon - (DVD)
Produced by Katie Lee - Katydid Books & Music

This is an ORIGINAL, two of the best known and loved songs of the Old West sung by the cowboys who wrote them, along with their stories of how and why they did so. Gail Gardner wrote "The Sierry Petes" (Tying Knots in the Devil's Tail) and Billy Simon composed the music for Charles Badger Clark's famous poem, "The Border Affair" (Spanish is the Loving Tongue). Few who sing it know where the melody came from!

Gail and Bill were in their 80's when Western musicologist and folksinger, Katie Lee, filmed them in Prescott, Arizona at Simon's Horse Camp and in the old house where Gail was born. She drew out their anecdotes, humor and philosophies and their sense of place in a West long vanished.

The film received a Golden Eagle Award from the Council of International Nontheatrical Events (CINE) and was chosen to represent the USA in international motion picture events. It is adapted from two chapters if Katie's book Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle; is written, directed and narrated by Katie Lee; photographed and edited by Harry Atwood; and produced at the TV Bureau, University of Arizona.

"A heartwarming tribute complete with authentic dialogue and the sounds of thundering hoofbeats, bawling cattle and creaking windmills. Katie Lee, a legend herself, has done a masterful job."

Jim Bob Tinsley

Love Song To Glen Canyon - Images, Words & Song - (DVD)
Produced by Katie Lee - Katydid Books & Music, 2007

With Songs and Narration by Katie Lee--145 Photographs of Glen Canyon, taken from 1955-1963, BD (Before the damdam)

Discover why Pulitzer Prize author Wallace Stegner called the canyon, "The most serenely beautiful of all the canyons of the Colorado River. And why Sierra Clllub founder, David Brower, called the drowning of this national treasure, " America's most regretted environmental mistake."

$20.00 - Postpaid

Glen Canyon Betrayed - A Sensuous Elegy - Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams.

A reprint of All My Rivers Are Gone with new design, photos, cover, Afterword and Index.

"There was once a canyon called Glen...buried under that cesspool called Lake Powell. Now we stand our watch. If we continue to let places like Glen go to wrack and ruin, it is on our own heads. Because Katie Lee has shown us how to do better. And the lesson is simple. Fight."
- Chuck Bowden, author of Down By The River and Inferno.

$20.00 - Postpaid

Sandstone Seduction - Rivers and Lovers, Canyons and Friends - Foreword by Ellen Meloy

Katie collects her most creative writing; telling us about events that shaped her life; her encounters with water and rock; remarkably candid and abundantly frank. She's been listening to the water and absorbing its lessons for more than fifty years.

"Sandstone Seduction is so full of gusto, high times, good people, and outright beauty, that it makes you want to laugh, cry, and head for the wilderness right now."
- John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War & Mountains Die.

$20.00 Postpaid

Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle - A History of the American Cowboy in Song, Story & Verse With annotated music (guitar cords), Chapter Notes, Glossary, Bibliography and Index.

"A joyous book about cowboy songs and their singers. Katie Lee sets the record straight. Written in a breezy, conversational style with refreshingly unlaundered vocabulary."
- Arizona Highways Magazine.

"A beautiful job, exact, comprehensive and witty. Should remain a basic history of the subject for many year to come."
- Edward Abbey.

"A book that blends verse, prose and music for the most enjoyable volume on the cattle industry since Frank Dobie died."
- El Paso Times

Two chapters from this book have been adapted for Katie's award winning DVD, The Last Wagon, which is also available HERE.

$22.00 - Postpaid

Ballad Of Gutless Ditch - Katie's free-verse Western adventure is set in Gutless Ditch, a Western mining town of the late 1800's. It stars the handsome lawyer Matt Kinkade; Potrero, Matt's ornery black stallion; Danielle, the petite schoolmarm who captivates Matt with charm and beauty, only to suddenly disappear; and "Mat-a-low," a child with big round eyes who magically appears nine years later in a bewitching glade outside of town. There are as many provocative and captivating twists through love, lust, betrayal and redemption as the sinuous canyons of the great Southwest canyons that Katie has explored and written so evocatively about. Its inspired mystical ending is as unexpected as it is entrancing.

Robin Anderson, nationally renowned artist from Jerome, Arizona, has illustrated the book with twelve remarkable etchings.

The Ballad of Gutless Ditch is a very finely designed, limited edition of 500, numbered and signed by author and illustrator. Once the edition is sold out, no other editions will be published.

$80.00 - Postpaid

Colorado River Songs - (CD)
19 Historic River Songs, played and sung by Katie Lee

$18.00 - Postpaid

Glen Canyon River Journeys - (CD)
Readings from All My Rivers Are Gone, interspersed with songs.

$18.00 - Postpaid

Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle - (CD)
28 Songs from the book "Ten Thousand Gddam Cattle", played and sung by Katie Lee, Travis Edmonson, Earl Edmonson and Will Holt. This includes a booklet of complete program notes from the original double LP record.

$20.00 - Postpaid

Fenced! - (CD)
Some of the best songs I've ever sung. Lonesome, sad-happy-funny songs, so Western you can hear the chaps flap. Simply done; just me and my guitar.

$20.00 - Postpaid

His Knibbs and the Badger - (with Ed Stabler) - (CD)

Ed and I took several poems from the famous works of Henry Herbert Knibbs & Charles Badger Clark, set them to music, arranged them, played and sang them together. We even surprised ourselves they turned out so well!

$20.00 - Postpaid

Loves Little Sisters - (CD)
Katie's Documentary of the Early America Whore. A one-woman show based on two famous folksongs: The House of the Rising Sun and Sisters of the Cross of Shame.

$20.00 - Postpaid

Folksongs From The Fifties! - (CD)
On Feb. 29, 1956, I opened The Gate of Horn coffeehouse in Chicago for Al Grossman. He had called me from my gig at the Blue Angel in New York, to share the opening bill with Luc Poret, a French nightclub star. I was there for 14 weeks and returned many times over the next few years. The songs on this CD are some of the ones I sang there.

They were recorded on my "state-of-the-art" Concertone in February of 1955 for a Chicago friend, who recently sent me a digitized copy from the old 15" reel. Not bad! The lyrics for "My Chastity," which I made into a madrigal, were taken from the blackboard walls of the ladies restroom, at the old Dill Pickle Club, in Chicago--where I was being taken to lunch by Carl Sandburg.

$20.00 - Postpaid

The Pagan - 18" x 24"
A nymph in a beautiful rock canyon of the Glen. Taken in 1957 I was younger then!

$25.00 - Postpaid