Don Edwards is one of a handful of cowboy musicians who is working hard to keep western music in the minds of the public.
Don took a shot at the larger country music scene, but his heart was always in the music of the cowboys.  Country music is definitely not western music, and Don is one who takes care to point out the distinction.  Whereas country music is about heartaches, drinking, and cheating, western music is a celebration of the elements of cowboy life - horses, riding, cowboying, friendship, and the land.
Don is a hot ticket on the cowboy poetry trail, and he recently released two solo book/tape anthologies of cowboy music and poetry.  Songs Of The Cowboy and Guitars And Saddle Songs include classic as well as contemporary cowboy songs, and both have been added to the Folklore Archives at the Library of Congress.
When he performs, Don sings alone without a backup band.
Don lives near Fort Worth, TX where he runs a few head of cows and breaks and trains his own horses.  Says Don, "I have cowboyed, working with cowboys doing day-work on some of the big ranches in Texas and New Mexico.  I try to do enough to keep myself in perspective.  But in no way am I the hand those working cowboys are.  I’m a whole lot more handy with a guitar than a rope."

- Cowboy Magazine, Summer 1990

Western Music Association:
1997 Male performer of the Year
1998 Male performer of the Year
1999 Male performer of the Year
2001 Male performer of the Year

Click on photo for more Information and to listen to sound samples.	"The cowboy don't always sing range songs, and many of the old bands sang to tunes imported from the east whenever they could get wind of 'em.  We sang as much about broken loves as we did about breaking horses."   -Will James
Click on photo for more Information and to listen to sound samples.	'Songs Of The Trail' is a great collection of cowboy songs produced by Joey Miskulin and Michael Martin Murphey, and performed by Don Edwards.
Click on photo for more Information and to listen to sound samples.	One of the biggest problems with many contemporary collections is that they are over produced in the typical Nashville approach. Well, here are 32 cowboy songs that are, in Don Edwards parlance, "unproduced" as simply as possible."   -Cowboy Magazine
Click on photo for more Information and to listen to sound samples.	Produced in cooperation with the Autry Museum of Western Heritage and recorded at Gene Autry's 90th birthday celebration.  Don Edwards pays tribute to one of the great singing cowboys.
Click on photo for more Information and to listen to sound samples.	On this cd, western music entertainers  - Don Edwards, Rich O'Brien and Waddie Mitchell - team up with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra to produce 16 extraordinary songs.
Click on photo for more Information and to listen to sound samples.	Legendary cowboy crooners Rex Allen and Don Edwards team up to perform some great old western songs.  This is the final recording of the late, great singing cowboy, Rex Allen.
Click on photo for more Information and to listen to sound samples.	On this CD, cowboy crooner Don Edwards does a mighty fine job paying tribute to the man he's often been compared to, the late Marty Robbins.
Click on photo for more Information and to listen to sound samples.	"It's been nearly six years since Saddle Songs and now here we are in the twenty-first century and all the more reason for Saddle Songs II: The Last of the Troubadours."   -Don Edwards
Click on photo for more Information and to listen to sound samples.	Moonlight and Skies is a 2005 CD release, containing 13 songs, performed by premier cowboy singer Don Edwards.

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