Buck Ramsey was born in New Home, Texas, January 9, 1938.
His poetry of traditional cowboy songs have been featured at the Smithsonian Institution, and the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum.  The Academy of Western Artists announced that, to honor Buck's memory the Poetry Book Award will hereafter be called, "The Buck Ramsey Award."  Buck’s work on "Anthem" has been referred to as "the finest contemporary piece of writing in this tradition."
Buck came from a singing family, his four sisters sang gospel music all around the Panhandle, while Buck sang with a band in high school.  He learned to play the guitar in his later years, but had played the piano for a good part of his life.  Buck was a cowboy, reporter, poet, cowboy singer-songwriter, and was active duty in the Marines.
Buck received awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame for "Best Traditional Song Album-1992/1994," a "National Heritage Master Artist Award-1995," the "Lifetime Achievement Award and Best Poetry Book Award-1996" from the Academy of Western Artists, and the "American Cowboy Culture Award for Western Music-1996."

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Traditional cowboy songs from Buck Ramsey, cowboy singer and poet. Rolling Uphill From Texas won the 1992 Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Traditional Western Music from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.

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