Don Edwards is a cowboy singer and guitarist who plays Western music

Western music (North America)

Western music originated as a form of American folk music. Originally composed by and about the people who settled and worked throughout the Western United States and Western Canada. Directly related musically to old English, Scottish, and Irish folk ballads, Western music celebrates the life of...

. He has recorded several albums, two of which, Guitars & Saddle Songs and Songs of the Cowboy, are included in the Folklore Archives of the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

. Edwards also recorded the album High Lonesome Cowboy with Peter Rowan and Tony Rice

Tony Rice

Tony Rice is an American acoustic guitarist and bluegrass musician. He is considered one of the most influential acoustic guitar players in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and acoustic jazz.Rice spans the range of acoustic music, from traditional bluegrass to jazz-influenced New...

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In 1993 he appeared on Nanci Griffith's Grammy Award winning album "Other Voices, Other Rooms" on which he accompanied Griffith on a Michael Burton song entitled "Night Rider's Lament".
Edwards played the character Smokey in Robert Redford

Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford, Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime...

's The Horse Whisperer. Edwards also performs the song "Coyotes" that plays during the final minutes of the documentary Grizzly Man

Grizzly Man

Grizzly Man is a 2005 American documentary film by German director Werner Herzog. It chronicles the life and death of bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell. The film consists of Treadwell's own footage of his interactions with grizzly bears before he and his girlfriend were killed and eaten by a bear...

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In 2005, Don Edwards was inducted into the Western Music Association Hall of Fame

Western Music Association Hall of Fame

The Western Music Association Hall of Fame is sponsored by the Western Music Association. Inductees are those individuals deemed important to the traditional and contemporary music of the American West and the American Cowboy.-1989-1999:1989*Rex Allen...

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Discography

• 1992 Songs Of The Trail
• 1993 Goin' Back To Texas
• 1994 The Bard and the Balladeer: Live from Cowtown (with Waddie Mitchell)
• 1996 West Of Yesterday
• 1997 Saddle Songs
• 1998 Best Of Don Edwards
• 1998 My Hero, Gene Autry: A Tribute
• 2000 Prairie Portrait
• 2001 On the Trail (with Waddie Mitchell)
• 2001 Kin To The Wind: Memories Of [Marty Robbins
• 2004 Last Of The Troubadours: Saddle Songs Vol. 2
• 2004 High Lonesome Cowboy (with Peter Rowen)
• 2006 Moonlight & Skies
• 2009 Heaven on Horseback
• 2010 American

External links

• Official music website
• Artist profile at cowboypoetry.com
• Don Edwards: In His Own Words (30-minute interview)
• [ Allmusic]