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news releases, newsletters, and promotional material for a Yampa Valley Boys show at your venue.

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Steve Jones and John Fisher are now in their eighth year of performing as the YAMPA VALLEY BOYS. They have performed over 1,000 shows together. They present an all acoustic, high energy, audience friendly show that preserves our western heritage through song, story and poem. John plays banjo, mandolin, dobro and assorted instruments. Steve plays guitar, sings many of the lead parts, and is the group's main songwriter. THE BOYS have four CD albums containing original and classic western material.

DID YOU KNOW THAT THE WORD, "YAMPA", WAS ORIGINALLY THOUGHT TO MEAN "BEAR"? HOWEVER, IT ACTUALLY MEANS "CARROT"

THE YAMPA VALLEY BOYS BY THE NUMBERS:

• 8 years performing together.
• 1,045 shows (through 3/31/08).
• Nominated for 2007 Western Music Assn Crescendo Award
• Colorado Assn of Fairs 2007 Associate Member of the Year
• 4 CD recordings. 60 recorded songs, stories and poems.
• 2 CD albums that charted in the Academy of Western Artists Top Ten Ratings Chart for western music album, "Back In The Saddle Again", #8 in July-August, 2005 and "Close To Home", #6 in 2007.
• 2 songs that have charted in the Top Ten for western song, "The River That Never Runs Dry", #8 in 2005, and "Word Weaver", #7, in 2007

QUOTES FROM PROMOTERS/VENUES:

"Anyone who has ever owned a horse or enjoyed an old-time cowboy movie loves these guys. They have an easy, down home cowboy humor that really connected with our audience".
Arty Smith, Promoter, Coyote Creek Concerts. Elizabeth, CO. September 9, 2006

"The Washington County Fair could not have asked for a more perfect ending. The Boys were real, their stories were real, and their music was real. For a county fair focused and run on the essence of real farm and ranch living, the Yampa Valley Boys fit in as snug and comfortably as a broken in boot. Come back next year, Boys".
Trevor Sides, Editor, Akron (CO) News Reporter, August 2005

"We love you guys. So, will you come back next year, too [for the fifth year in a row]?"
Misty Dawn, Colorado Country Music Assn, and Booking Representative for Canon Rose Acoustic Society Canon City, Colorado (2004, '05, '06, '07)* (*The 2007 and 2006 shows were performed to "standing room only" audiences.

"You made our home concert one of the best ever".
Joan of Raton (home concert in Raton, N.M., Nov., 2004)

"I have skied throughout the west and heard many entertainers--you are the best, by far."
George, Atlanta Ski Club (2005)

CD REVIEWS

CLOSE TO HOME

"Steve Jones and John Fisher have teamed up again to produce yet another intriguing collection of cowboy/western songs. Steve's tenor leads are terrific, and John's harmonies, banjo pickin' and mandolin strummin' are superb... [T]hese guys are good. Their harmonies are melodious and tight, and their musicianship is impeccable. They deserve a serious listen."
COWBOY MAGAZINE-Spring 2007 edition

BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN

COWBOY MAGAZINE, SUMMER 2005 ISSUE
"You'll like it. 'On The Run' is an excellent Steve Jones original.... Among the other great songs...are Jeffrey Bullock's 'Ponies', an instrumental version of 'Ol' Joe Clark', fabulously frailed on the banjo...by Fisher...."

THE WESTERN WAY, SUMMER 2005--O.J. Sikes:
"...one of my favorites is a traditional banjo instrumental, but there are also 4 vocals that particularly impressed me. The one I liked best was a song by Andy Wilkinson,'The River That Never Runs Dry', and the others were the Boys' renditions of Steve's 'On The Run', Brenn Hill's 'Burnin' Hair' and the traditional, 'Streets Of Laredo' ".

TALES OF THE TRAIL

COWBOY MAGAZINE, FALL 2004:
John Fisher and Steve Jones say 'We are dedicated to preserving the cowboy way in song, story, and poem.' "They've done it. This is a very 'cowboy-sounding' CD that is worth listening to. It is loaded with traditional songs and poems as well as quality contemporary cowboy songs, including some original material."

"...a fitting tribute to western music and the art of cowboy storytelling."--The Western Horseman - May 2004