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Jon Chandler and the Wichitones, Musicians
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A fourth-generation Coloradan, Jon Chandler's western novels, songs
and poems serve to keep alive the frontier ethic passed down from
his ancestors. Chandler's The Spanish Peaks received
the prestigious Western Writers of America's 1999 Medicine Pipe
Bearer Award for Best First Novel and is being represented as a
film property. His next novel, Wyoming Wind will be
a 2002 Five Star release. Midnight on Poker Creek,
an audio compilation of his western poetry was released in 2001.
His collection of children's stories and songs, Cowboy Critter
Campfire Tales, is slated as an animated cartoon series,
while his short story, On Peg Leg's Trail, will appear
in a 2002 Berkley anthology. His cover story on country music appears
in the winter 2001 edition of Old West Journal.
Chandler has the American frontier in his blood. One of his forebearers,
Decatur Patterson, teamed up with William Green Russell in 1858
to lead a group of Georgia pioneers who discovered gold in Colorado.
Curtis Chandler, his paternal great-grandfather, was an early pioneer
on the Great Plains and served in the Civil War's famous Iron Brigade
where he was twice wounded at Gettysburg and Battle of the Wilderness.
His great-grandfather Morgan Patterson was a legendary Colorado
deputy sheriff, cowboy, miner, justice of the peace, hunter, fiddler
and friend of Bill Cody. And, his 2-great grandfather F.M. Ownbey,
was a friend and staunch defender of the famous or perhaps infamous,
Tom Horn.
The Wichitones
Butch Hause
A Grammy-nominated recording engineer and one of the Rocky Mountain
Region's busiest musicians, Hause has spent the past couple of decades
working with the king of cowboy poetry, Baxter Black. His exceptional
bass playing can be heard on dozens of regional and national recordings,
and his studio engineering expertise is evidenced on projects by
Don Edwards, Sons of the San Jaoquin, Peter Rowan, Rich O'Brien,
Norman Blake, David Wilke, Katy Moffaft, Baxter Black and Jon Chandler,
among many others. His bass and guitar playing combine with his
background vocals to help give Jon Chandler and the Wichitones a
distinctive identity. He owns and operates The Ranger Station
recording studio in Henderson, Colorado.
Ernie Martinez
Martinez plays everything with strings better than most people play
anything with strings. 'Emie's Army' appears on dozens of recordings,
with Martinez contributing guitar, dobro, mandolin, banjo, bass,
and even fiddle to projects throughout the West. His studio work
is integral to the unique sounds of several Colorado-based performers,
including Dakota Blonde, Jim & Sally Ratts, Runaway Express,
Steve Pierre, Timothy P. Irvin and Jon Chandler. His harmony vocals
complete the Wichitones' sound. A superb bluegrass musicians he
teaches stringed instruments at Denver's prestigious Swallow Hill
Music Association and Arvada's Olde Town Pickin' Parlor.
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