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Adrian : Highway 80
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An eclectic combination of Blues, Western and Folk music describing today’s modern cowboy and ranch life with yesterday’s heroes. The CD expresses powerful, rich female vocals with mature, original and developed lyrics.
Genre: Country: Cowboy
Release Date: 2007
Highway 80 Record Label: Adrian
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Old Dale 4:53 $0.99
Elko 4:16 $0.99
Winter Blues 4:18 $0.99
Highway 80 4:04 $0.99
Old Time Vaquero 4:46 $0.99
Tuscarora 3:24 $0.99
The Will James Days 3:59 $0.99
Drifting Vaquero 3:59 $0.99
Nighttime in Nevada 3:31 $0.99
I'm Leaving Nevada 3:24 $0.99
Don't Forget Sis 5:09 $0.99
Pequaps 3:20 $0.99
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Album Notes

This is hardcore Buckaroo music. You won’t find “camp cookie” and “pretty little horses” in Buckaroogirl, Adrian’s music.

Instead, you’ll find the reality of ranch life, bad horses, coyote cattle, tough men and tougher women with liberal amounts of roping (for the poly deficient). Adrian’s music reflects this unromantic but harsh reality in every Nevada desert soaked note and phrase.

The CD was released at the 2008 Elko Poetry Gathering and has been tearing up the countryside since then. Winter Blues, the third track on the CD reminds you just how cold it gets horseback, and has been in the Indie Internet Radio top 40 since the week it came out (see SongPlanet.com). The final track named for the mountain range that runs through North East Nevada—and the Big Springs ranch upon which Adrian lived as a child, is featured on the recently released documentary film, Los Primeros.

These songs come from Adrian’s experiences working cattle with her family on ranches in Nevada, California, Canada, Utah and throughout the west, as well as from the stories she’s been told by other cowboys she knows.

You can read more about Adrian and her music in this month’s (February 2009) Western Horseman Magazine. Here is some of what is being said about the music.

Oh my God! The very first thing is the woman's voice, and she's incredible!
from Corvallis, Oregon on 23Mar2008

The singer's voice knocks you out right off the bat with its natural down-home bluesy quality and distinctive vibrato. I would love to see this band live.
from Gatineau, Quebec, Canada on 26Jan2008

I'm a fan! Really powerful vocal. High energy. Wow! Top marks all around.
from New York on 19Mar2008

Cascade Horseman
…Adrian…writes and sings about her ranch experiences and the cowboy way of life. She had a voice that seemed many years older than her age; it was impressively strong and clear.

Songplanet.com DJ
…she appears to have extreme talent and a truly unique blend of rock and country with an almost “new genre all it’s own” sound and image, and she sings pretty darn well, too!

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REVIEWS

Adrian
author: Robin
If there were a hundred starts possible, I would give her each and everyone. This CD goes above and beyond its purpose to entertain. This music touches me to the core. Her voice, the words, and above all her genuine spirit comes through and then sets her apart from being just entertaining. I can not say enough for this young artist.
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COWBOY
author: kirk jernigan
IT IS NICE SOMEONE TODAY IS SINGING ABOUT THIS LIFESTYLE. WE LIVE THE REAL AMERICAN DREAM "RANCHING" FOR LIVING, NOT JUST FOR THE WEEKENDS. LOVE THE MUSIC!!!!
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Highway 80
author: Michael Tonne
I loved it! If I keep playing it I'll wear it out! I espically loved Tuscarora, and Old Time Vaquero. Can't wait for your next CD.
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author: WOCowboy
This gal knows her stuff. From the cold and the colts to the "romance" that isn't. She doesn't just touch the buckaroo, she reaches out to cowboys everywhere. Good on ya' kid.
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