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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!
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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
$30.00 - Postpaid |
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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 |
View and listen to the video trailer for this work by clicking HERE. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
$22.00 - Postpaid |
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Colorado River Songs - (CD)
19 Historic River Songs, played and sung by Katie Lee
Sold as a set w/ free tape of Glen Canyon River Journeys.
$18.00 - Postpaid |
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Glen Canyon River Journeys - (CD)
Readings from All My Rivers Are Gone, interspersed with songs.
Sold as a set w/ free tape of Colorado River Songs.
$18.00 - Postpaid |
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OLD CASSETTES & RECORDINGS TRANSFERED ON MADE-TO- ORDER CD'S (Complete with liner notes) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Arizona Killer - (CD)
(NOTE: This is a 1-song CD. We have just made arrangements to have this song available for online digital download at various sites but it may be weeks before it is available. You may check this site for availablilty: http://www.tunecore.com/music/katielee)
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THE ARIZONA KILLER
I'd just returned from a gig at Telluride Mountainfilm Festival - where they showed a documentary DVD of my activism; trying to save our Colorado River and restore Glen Canyon - to be zapped back into my past with a force that has left me dazed.
Out of the blue I get an email from a guy named Bill who is a PhD student in rhetoric and a composition teacher at Carnegie-Mellon University. He tells me he saw this movie "3:10 to Yuma" and they played a verse from a song called The Arizona Killer. When he did a web search about the song, he found ME; and when I told him I'd never heard of the movie he thought I was pulling his leg. He wanted the song - all of it.
Backpedal about 53 years: Chicago--Palmer House Hotel - nice suite - Harry and Milton, his guitarist - me and my guitar taping it for Harry - last name Bellefonte. He never sang it, as far as I know, though Milton said he liked the changes in the rhythm. Other than for my coffeehouse or nightclub audiences, the only times I remember singing it for the media were on Studs Terkel's WFMT show sometime in the mid to late fifties, and maybe NBC-TV Telephone Hour. Old friend Josh White said something like, "Ah c'mon--he kills six dudes in a couple days? - that's too wild even for the Wildest West!". And Burl, who'd gone thru my warehouse of folksongs, picking material I could best use on the road, asked why I wrote it - or re-wrote it, as the case may be.
"Because I want my very own "One Hour Ahead of the Posse," I told him--a song that he'd recently recorded, and which I liked a lot.
"Not as classy as Posse," he said, "but at least you've given it some character with the music." The music I'd already composed for its sibling, The Tennessee Killer--found in Vance Randolph's, Folk Songs of the Ozarks - soooo, I rewrote it, added another verse, decided our western place names fit my music better than the Ozark ones, and quit singing about Tennessee altogether.
Lest you think I'm just name-dropping here, the object of this exercise is to show that none of these famous souls ever sang it and certainly never recorded it. Nor have I sung it for twenty years until this week. Now I can't get it out of my head!
But, I did record it on my Concertone--the cream of machines back in the 60's - and it does fit the movie, 3:10 To Yuma. I must commend these guys for using the one verse they used, and Tucker whose almost "singing" gives the song and the scene maximum effect.
Katie Lee
6-20-08
$10.00 - Postpaid |
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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 |
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| T-SHIRTS (While they last!) |
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Mountain Film just sent me these "Colletor's Item" T-Shirts. They come in both colors, and I have M, L, XL until they run out. There ain't no more. They are made from 100% organic cotton by Horny Toad. The quote is: (but don't ask me why)
"Why is it, that nobody ever asks what the river wants?"
$28.00 - Postpaid |
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Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle, A History of the American Cowboy in Song, Story & Verse - from Univ. New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.
1-800-249-7737 www.unmpress.com |
If ordering more than half dozen of the following items:
The DVD - Love Long to Glen Canyon
Book - Glen Canyon Betrayed
- please order from Fretwater Press: braddimock@fretwater.com
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