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Baxter Black Comes To RFD-TV
RFD-TV: Our viewers have seen your shows replayed many times on RFD TV.
What prompted you to develop this new program
Baxter:Every time one of my old programs ran we would get a gaggle, a herd,
what is a bunch of phone calls? Maybe a 'telly' full of inquiries about my
DVDs, books, and CDs. As RFD has continued to grow, particularly in this
last year in viewership, I began contemplating a regular feature that would work
on television.
RFD-TV: Were proud to say you've done it! It begins the 2nd week of November.
What will the show be like?
Baxter:Each episode will be a 2 1/2 minute story, poem or commentary, they
are Ag related and filmed at my place in Arizona. It's called Baxter Black, from
"Out There".
RFD-TV: From "Out There"? Why from "Out There"?
Baxter: Because that's where we RFD listeners are, whether we're in Benson
Arizona, Alpine Texas, Gallipolis, Ohio, or Cullman, Alabama. To the movers
and shakers in New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, or San Francisco,
that's where they think we live. . "Out There" somewhere. Besides the "Polka
hour' was already taken!
RFD-TV: Anything else you'd like to add?
Baxter:Yes, This program has been three years in the making, trying to get it
right. RFD is making big strides increasing the quality of their programming
as viewership increases. I want my show to be a part of that. I am working
closely with my director Mitch Deck in Kansas City who has a lot to do with
keeping "Out There" a hi tech, first class cowboy project. My film crew friends
from Tucson under the close eye of Nathan Shelton make it work.
It is my hope that RFD viewers will like it. They are a great audience, they
understand me and I understand them.
RFD-TV: RFD is sure they will. The show Baxter Black from "Out There," will
debut in November 2005. Check your program guide for times.
Background On Baxter Black:
Baxter Black, described by the New York Times as ‘…probably the nation’s
most successful living poet,”…thinks it’s an exaggeration.
He can shoe a horse, string a bob wire fence and bang out a Bob Wills classic on
his flat top guitar. Cowboy poet, ex-veterinarian and sorry team roper, he has
more hair around his lip than on his head. Raised in New Mexico, spent his
workin’ life in the mountain west tormenting cows, now he travels the country
tormenting cowboys.
Since 1982, Baxter Black has been rhyming his way into the national spotlight,
and now stands as the best selling cowboy poet in the world. He’s written several
books (including one rodeo novel and its sequel), recorded over a dozen audio
and video tapes, CDs and DVDs, and has achieved notoriety as a syndicated
columnist and radio commentator. From the Tonight Show and PBS to NPR
and the NFR, Baxter’s wacko verse has been seen and heard by millions. His
works are prominently displayed in both big city libraries and small town feed
stores.
Baxter lives in Benson, Arizona, between the Gila River and the Gila monster, the
Mexican border and the Border Patrol and between the horse and the cow---
where the action is. Everything about Baxter is cowboy; his cartoonish mustache,
his personality and his poetry. He hasn’t changed a thing about his subject matter or his delivery. He makes a living shining a spotlight on the flaws and foibles of
everyday cowboy life, the day-to-day ups and downs of people who live with
livestock and work the land. He demonstrates that it is the truth in his humor
that makes it funny. Driven by a left hand sense of humor Black evokes laughter
just by being there.
He still doesn’t own a television or a cell phone, and his idea of a modern
convenience is Velcro chaps.
This former large animal veterinarian can be followed nationwide through his
column, National Public Radio, public appearances, television and also through
his books, cd’s, videos and website, www.baxterblack.com.
So, in a nut shell (where some believe he may have evolved) there is considerably
more to Baxter than just an entertainer. He is the real thing. Because, as he says,
“It’s hard to be what you aren’t.” Baxter’s philosophy is simple enough - in spite
of all the computerized, digitized, high-tech innovations now available to
mankind, there will always be a need for someone who can “think up stuff”.
Baxter can be contacted at:
| Look for Baxter
Black in Superior Livestock Auction Previews, This
Week in
Agribusiness, andBest of America by Horseback! |
Coyote Cowboy Company
P.O. Box 2190
Benson, AZ 85602
(800) 654-2550
www.baxterblack.com |
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