Country · Western · Folk
Words that tell.
Songs that stay.
Original songs about the American West and the people who live there, from a songwriter with fifty years of them. Out of Powell, Wyoming, in the Big Horn Basin.
The album
Ten songs from Rich Cloud and his backing band, from roadhouse humor to old-time cowboy twang. Press any song to drop the needle.
Side A
Side B
10 songs · 37 minutes · notes in italics from J. Poet’s review
A contender for Americana album of the year
“Fool is an embarrassment of riches.”
Rich on KPOW · Powell, Wyoming
These recordings catch Rich in a different setting: talking, playing, and sharing the kind of songs and stories that fit right at home on a Wyoming radio dial. Seven shows, 2019 to 2022. Turn the dial.
Every show
His story
The sixties
Looking through the smoky veil of time, back to the turbulent sixties, a teenage boy awakened to find a gift that would change his life forever: his first guitar. Rich had already been kicking around with piano, strings, and woodwinds. But here was an instrument he could sing with, and carry out into the world.
Then
Off he went to the world of folk music, where he started developing his songwriting skills. From there it was easy to find blues and bluegrass, eventually leading to rock and country.
The nineties
By the nineties Rich had discovered electricity. He played country dance music all over Montana and Wyoming, and pretty soon it was Texas to California and points between: the self-styled life of a vagabond troubadour.
Now
Finally he tired of the travel and decided to play more locally. Rich returned to his acoustic roots and his 1955 Guild, and called on fifty years of songwriting for material: finely crafted originals and select covers.
His words tell stories of the American West and the people who live there. His songs paint pictures of majestic mountains and azure skies, of meandering trails and cool, quiet nights.
“Nights that would swallow you like a deep lake and hold you softly as a sleeping child.”
Photos
A guitar, a harmonica rack, and a stump to sit on. Tap any frame to see it big.
Shows & bookings
Based in Powell, Wyoming and available for solo acoustic performances, listening rooms, private events, and select regional bookings.
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Rich Cloud
Country · Western · Folk
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