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		A Video, a CD, a Tape, or a Book all by Mike Puhallo Mike is a widely published Cowboy Poet and here you can purchase his products! There are CD reviews on the Testimonials Page New CD - Knockin' Down Fences! Mike and Matt Johnston have been in the studio again but this time with Tammy Gislason, Kraig Jodrey, Budd Webb, Aimee Pettersen, Bodie Domingues, and Ray Goguen! All on one CD. This new compilation is super! "Knockin' Down Fences" Click on the CD to enlarge it.

If you know the artisits on this CD then you most likely like them. If that's the case then this 24 track CD is a must. If you don't know a particular artist and would like to find out if you do like their material or not, then buy the CD - you can't go wrong - with 8 different artists all taking part you're bound to find at least one that you like - besides Mike that is. How can one go wrong - with this many great selections all on one CD - and all for only $20 (Canadian money!) Here's what's on the CD: Matt Johnston does three of his originals - "Spirit of the West", "Old Flat Top Guitar", and "We are the Sons and the Daughters". Kraig Jodrey does three songs that he wrote, "Carry on the Tradition", "Cowboyin' Ain't No Holiday" and "One More Rodeo" - the last one with the help of Aimee Pettersen! Aimee also teams up with Budd Webb in a song called "Good Together" and sings back-up on a few other tracks as well. Bud also sang "Good To Go", "Becca Fly" and "Rock'n Roll Cowboy" that he co-wrote with Mike Puhallo! Mike shares seven other poems that are scattered throughout the CD and Bodie Domingues sings "Fifty's Just a Number" that he and Mike co-wrote. The Engineer of the whole project, Ray Goguen, also shares a song with us called "Old Jack" that he co-wrote. There are also three songs that are both written and sung by Tammy Gislason - "Prairie Moon", "Senorita's Song", and "In the Wind".

Smarten Up and Put Your Hat Back On 23 of Mike's original poems and 8 of Matt's original songs make this CD just about a full hour of original material. Well worth the $20 ($15 for tapes) which also includes shipping and handling! You can hear sound files of Mike's Poems on the Mike's Poems page and you can hear some short clips of Matt right here! Put Your Hat Back On (174KB) She's Only a Dream (170KB) Driftin' On (112KB) When the Last Calf Hits the Ground (174KB)

This book was published in the summer of 2001. Mike and Cowboy Cartoonist Wendy Liddle released it as their 5th book of Cowboy Poetry and Cartoons. Piled Higher and Deeper on the Cariboo Trail, is probably the best yet! It is a collection 45 poems by Mike Puhallo that range from silly to serious. Poems that reach back in time to tell stories of the earliest cowboys and horsemen or explore the perils of the cyber age. The West as it was, and is, through the eyes of a cowboy. Every poem is illustrated with the wit and humor that has made Wendy Liddle one of the world's most popular Cowboy Cartoonists.

Mike's latest book Piled Higher and Deeper on the Cariboo Trail just (April 2002) received the "Will Rogers Medallion Award" from the Academy of Western Artists.

Like their previous 4 books it is published by Hancock House Publishing, from Surrey, British Columbia and Blaine, Washington. All five books are available from numerous online outlets as well as better book stores throughout North America. You can order all five books from Hancock House or by Emailing Mike!

This is Mike's first book and it was put together with a combination of his own poems, poems from Brian Brannon, and the great cartoons of Wendy Liddle! Rhymes on the Range will take you into the life of genuine no-bullshit cowboys. These are actual stories, about actual happenings in the life of Canada's working cowboys. You will smell the stench of burning hair at the branding fire and the welcome fragrance of coffee on a campfire during roundup. You'll hear the music of spurs jingling in stirrups as a cowboy rides by and the call of a coyote as you drift off to sleep in your bedroll. You will enjoy it!

Still Rhymin' on the Range is the honest, down-to-earth, sweat-stained poetry from folks used to being up to their knees in real B.S. The second in a collection of cowboy poetry offers readers another look into the lives of real cowboys. Simple and sincere, these poems range from humorous to heartbreaking as Mike Puhallo and Brian Brannon put their pens to paper again. Award-winning cowboy cartoonist Wendy Liddle is back, providing wonderful and whimsical art that is the perfect compliment to Puhallo and Brannon's poetry. Get back in the saddle for more cowboy poetry - you will love it!

Can't Stop Rhymin' on the Range offers readers a look into the lives of real cowboys and girls. Silly and sensitive, happy and hardluck, these folks tell it like it is. It is the third book in the series and award-winning cowboy cartoonist Wendy Liddle is back, providing wonderful and whimsical art that is the perfect compliment to the poetry of Mike Puhallo and Brian Brannon. This book will be enjoyed by anyone who has ever dreamt of ten gallon hats and little doggies!

Meadow Muffins is Mike's collection of his own Cowboy Rhymes and Other B.S. along with cartoons designed to entertain and offer a form of modern folklore. Mike Puhallo's rhymes are down-to-earth, honest, and funny. Ranging from the sensitive to the ridiculous, the poems are real stories of today's West. Wendy Liddle's cartoons capture the essence of each poem in her award-winning way. She has been drawing professionally for about ten years and this is her fourth book with Mike.

Available in CD or Cassette Tape! The Smell of Sage & Pine is a recorded collection of Mike's poems now available on CD or cassette. There are 32 selections on the album including 3 songs co-written with, and sung by, Butch Falk. The poems and songs on this album have been getting airplay on radio stations in Canada, the United States and in Europe. You can listen to a couple of samples from this CD on The Poems Page

A Video Tape! Minstrels of the West is a video cassette with a collection of Cowboy Poetry and Music filmed at various Canadian Cowboy Poetry gatherings over the summer of 2001. It features Mike Puhallo, Bryn Thiessen and Dale (Doc) Hayes. This video is 48 minutes of great cowboy poems and pickin', featuring some of the best performers in Canada and a few guests from south of the Medicine line. It is filmed by "Hired Gun Productions" and will be broadcast across Canada on the Global Network in early 2002.

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