If you are a cowboy and you play western swing music, somewhere down the trail, in your heart and in your blood, you have got to record a cowboy album along the way. This is exactly what my friend Bob Rohan has done. Bob told me once that this is what he wanted to do at some point in time and I'm really pleased to see Prairie Rose" hit the trail. Rohan and I have been friends for a couple of years and he is as talented as anyone can find when it comes to swing music and although I have heard of all the musicians on the Prairie Rose CD and know that they are the best of the best, I also have two close friends playing with Bob and that being Liz Talley on drums and Harlan Kubos on the stand up bass. I have played every Prairie Rose track on The Backforty Bunkhouse Show and it is getting rave comments from my listeners. Along with Rohan, Kubos and Talley, there's Randy Meadows on guitar, Greg Lowry on squeezebox and dobro, jim Black on the ivories, Jim Moratto on banjo and guitar, Brad Ottosen on (I love this) the BUNKHOUSE bass. Ed Starkey heading up the electric bass, Ricky Davis on steel guitar, Ron Rebstock on the banjo, Joe Kirkpatrick on guitar, and Curtis Davis on guitar. Of course you'll hear Bad Bob Rohan doing the vocals and sawing that fiddle. Although western music includes swing, cowboy, and most Texas style honky tonk music, all are of their own genre of the industry, I know you are going to love Bob Rohan's Prairie Rose album and I am not afraid to say that this very well may be album of the year. I am proud of you Bad Bob, you nailed this one for sure.