Johnny Kendrick is a fawmaer-stockman who lives and works on tallgrass prairie land in western Missouri.  Life-long passions for music and the American West led to his developing a program that traces the history of the Cowboy through music.  "To me the one thing that says ‘America’ loudest is the image of the cowboy," he says.  "From the time I first saw Roy and Gene riding across the silver screen, I’ve been fascinated with the heroic ideas the image portrays."
A broadening interest led Kendrick to investigate the roots of the cowboy; from the importation of Spanish cattle to the New World in the 16th Century through the adaptation of vaquero’s tools and lifestyles, to the impact of modern-day life.  He’s traveled to experience the land that nurtured the cowboy; the Big Open in Montana and the Dakotas, the vast Texas plains of the XIT, the waving bluestem of Kansas prairie.  He brings all he’s learned together in a program of cowboy songs that follows the historic trail from the dust of old Mexico to the chrome-plated rodeo cowboys of today.
"It seemed to be just a natural progression to combine my two life-long passions, music and cowboys," he says.

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In the true tradition of cowboy music, Johnny Kendrick performs these old cowboy songs the way they were originally performed, with little or no instrumentation.

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