'Don’t Fence Me In' celebrates America’s wide open spaces / By Sarah Linn of The Tribune, San Luis Obispo
National Council for the Traditional Arts presents a show of yodeling, western swing, Native American drumming and Tex-Mex
By Bill Watts
Yahoo! yodeler Wylie Gustafson is one of several acts that will perform for ‘Don’t Fence Me In.’
By Sarah Linn | slinn@thetribunenews.com
Sarah Linn The Tribune, San Luis Obispo
Poet Paul Zarzyski can trace his love of America’s wide open spaces to childhood. He and his father would go on fishing trips in the hardwood forests of northern Wisconsin.
“I’d always ask, ‘Dad, what’s the name of that bird making that sound? Dad, what’s that tree with the shaggy bark?’ ” he recalled.
“It was so vivid,” recalled the performer better known as Ranger Doug, guitarist for the Grammy Award-winning group Riders in the Sky. “You could see that old prospector dying of thirst in the desert. It stuck with me that this music was alive.”
Home movies of his dad’s hunting trips out West fed his fascination further….
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