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NEW! Baxter Black's NPR CDs is an all new collection of over 50 of Baxter's most popular National Public Radio commentaries. They include Just a Dog, The Cowboy's Vegetarian Cookbook, A Parent's Thoughts at Graduation as well as A Turkey's Thoughts at Thanksgiving. Family Friendship , holidays, cows, trucks, cowboys, and ewes, plus much more cowboy insight on this double CD set. 2 Audio CDs Suggested Retail: $24.95 Our Price: $20.95 |
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NEW! This combination of two distinctively different videos, Baxter Black's 1st Video and Baxter Black Ridin' High, is perfect for the long time Baxter fan as well as new converts. Watch in amazement in Baxter's 1st Video as a cowboy poet and his friends do the UNTHINKABLE . . . put poetry into ACTION! This Emmy award winning video is a collection of ten of Baxter's lunatic cowboy poems acted out by Bax and his friends. We call it Cowboy MTV! Baxter Ridin' High brings the stage to your house... so mooove the couch and get ready to witness, IN FULL COLOR, cowboy humor BAXTER STYLE! This video contains some of Baxter's best material that was recorded live on Iowa Public TV. Special features include commentary by Baxter, director Mike Drumm and bass man Butch Hause. One DVD - 2.5 hours! Suggested Retail: $24.95 Our Price: $19.95 |
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NEW! This DVD features the videos Baxter Black Live of Public TV and Baxter Black By Himself. Live on Public TV was Baxter's first public TV video and is no longer available on VHS. Three of Baxter's shows filmed in front of a live studio audience at Iowa Public TV were edited together to create this video. Live on Public TV gives you a taste of Baxter performing live in front of a studio audience! Then enjoy the next helping of Baxter's humor in Baxter By Himself, where you can see Baxter's poetry and stories filmed on location at the ranch, the feedlot or the ropin' arena (to name a few). A humorous video with a delicate blend of cowboy mentality and familiar scenery. Special features including outtakes. One DVD - 2.5 hours! Suggested Retail: $24.95 Our Price: $19.95 |
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For
those who may be alarmed by the term "comic book" breathe
easy. It actually has some substance, maybe not educational, but certainly
informative, humorous, and stickery.
Written at an adult level but aimed at teens, storylines pit Ag Man and his able assistants, farm boy and corn silk, against a series of animal rights lunatics, media trouble makers, self serving ecodestructionists, locusts, market manipulators, and bioterrorists. 92 pages, softcoverSuggested Retail: $14.95 Our Price: $12.95 |
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The
world's bestselling cowboy poet and public radio's favorite former
large animal veterinarian, Baxter Black, is back in the saddle with
a hilarious new roundup of essays, commentaries and campfire verse
that speaks to the cowboy soul in us all.
Drawn in part from Baxter's wildly popular NPR commentaries and syndicated columns, Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet offers a generous helping of his tender yet irreverent, sage-as-sagebrush takes on everything from ranching, roping, Wrangler jeans, and rodeos to weddings and romance, the love of a good dog, dancing, parenting, cooking up trouble and the weather! Horseshoes,
Cowsocks & Duckfeet is a beautiful, 265 page hardcover book,
illustrated by the best cowboy cartoonists, and is published by
Crown Publishing. |
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Baxter
describes his writings as mostly humorous, occasionally political,
and accidentally informative. Regardless, they remain true to his
western heritage, his agricultural upbringing, and those stubborn,
dedicated, honorable folks who make a living off the land and give
him purpose.
To truly appreciate his perspective it helps to understand the cowboy mentality. It can best be demonstrated by the joke wherein the cowboy holds his hand up in front of his face, palm to his nose, looks out over his fingers, and says, "Bet you can't hit my hand before I move it." The illustrations
in this book are cleverly, colorfully done by a card table full
of ink wielding cowboy cartoonists charged with the responsibility
of making Baxter look good. They try. |
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This
book is Baxter's 2nd hardback collection. A second helping, you might
say. In an effort to confuse you, we combined these popular softcovers;
Croutons On A Cow Pie, Cowboy Standard Time and The Buckskin Mare,
plus 45 new pieces never before presented in a book form. Charlie
marsh, Dave Holl, Don Gill and bob Black have added their own unique
interpretations of Baxter's wit with their illustrations. It makes
it tough for readers, though..."Do I look at the pictures first,
or read the poem first?" 208 pages, hardcover Suggested Retail: $24.95 Our Price: $21.95 |
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This
is where it all started... A winning combination of Baxter's first
three softcover books, plus a pile of additional material that had
never before been published in book form and voilá! It is now
the biggest selling cowboy poetry book, ever! 208 pages, hardcover Suggested Retail: $24.95 Our Price: $21.95 |
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Cowboy
Mentality - Selected pieces from live shows and studio tapings that
will strike a note in the hearts and funny bones of all who have married
a cowboy type, calved a heifer, called the vet, drove an old truck,
or replaced a prolapse. You and your family are in here somewhere.
The second CD in the set is called The Big One That Got Away Blues. Over the years many outfitters and guides have taken Baxter's tapes along to play for their hunters around the campfire after supper. It includes tales of camp cooks, visiting dogs, the wiley elk, the hunter's son, geese, trout, oriental chicken, mules, bear rugs, ghosts and trail ride compaction. These recordings are as close as you can get to havin' Baxter in the cab of your pickup or around your campfire. And you don't have to be a cowboy, cowgirl or outdoorsman to enjoy his humor, as witnessed by his popularity on National Public Radio. 2 Pack Audio Cassettes Suggested Retail: $19.95 Our Price: $16.95 2 Audio CDs Suggested Retail: $24.95 Our Price: $21.95 |
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Double...
Double Trouble... it’s Baxter Black’s FIRST CD... and it’s a DOUBLE ! A shortened
version of the 4-Pak and Box Set. Baxter chose his favorites from
all 8 of his cassettes to create this collection of poems and stories
on a 2 CD set. |
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Baxter
Black, America's best-selling cowboy poet, is also a songwriter. Numerous
western artists, including Ed Bruce, Red Steagall, Ian Tyson, Sons
of the San Joaquin, and others equally talented, have recorded his
songs.
Jim Schafer, who first cut one of Baxter's songs in 1982, has produced an entire CD (13 songs) of Baxter's tunes. The two have been friends since college, and nobody knows Baxter's music better than Jim. The songs are done in Jim's straightforward cowboy fashion with some flashy pickin' lighting the dark corners. Butch Hause, the Rocky Mountains' premier sideman and friend of Baxter and Jim, fills in the potholes. This CD is a
first for everybody, and you're gonna be pleasantly surprised |
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Jim
Schafer has achieved critical success with his masterful guitar playing
and his true cowboy renditions of authentic western music. A close
friend and guitar pickin' buddy of Baxter Black, he has performed
and recorded many of Baxter's songs.
Long before Baxter's success as a cowboy poet, the ol' coyote wrote songs. Lots of them. "More Baxter Songs" covers thirteen of his best --poignant, heartfelt, wry and full of misery and pain. Kinda like a Haggard record, with a lot smaller budget. Jim has a real
handle on these tunes and treats them like old friends. Just like
him and Bax. |
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Cowboy
pride - how do you explain it? Well you can't come any closer than
Baxter has with this new collection of cowboy poems. All performed
by Baxter, each introduced by a friend, including Ben Johnson, Bobbie
Gentry, Rex Allen, Tuff Hedman, Chris LeDoux, Wilford Brimley and
many more... Dramatic; wry and poignant, these poems describe the
cowboy way from the inside out. Suggested Retail: $9.99 Our Price: $8.99 |
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