Go Down To The River in Ukranian

A wonderful virtual performance of my song "Go Down To The River" sung in Ukrainian is here.
Thank you to the young folks at Druzhba Church, Ternopil, Ukraine for posting their performance. I'm honored!  Arrangement by Joel Raney, Hope Music.

Rick Pickren's POP HITS OF THE 60'S

Rick's brand new program features the number # 1 hits of the 1960's...songs and stories from from every year of the decade! A link to the brochure is here.

Academy of Western Artists Nomination

I'm honored to have been nominated by The Academy of Western Artists as one of the five finalist for Best Western Artist of 2017. The awards show is on March 17 in Fort Worth, Tx. Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend due a heavy week of performing my Celtic Cowboy program. Doggone. Hate to miss it.

My new CD, Pale Moon on the Prairie, was nominated as Best Western Album but, alas, it didn't finish in the top five. A number of songs from the album were also nominated including Pale Moon on the Prairie, Swingin' Through The Sagebrush, Beneath the Apple Trees, A Cowboy Needs a Horse and one I wrote with lyricist Dennis Goodwin about Roy and Dale called God Save the King and Queen.  Dennis put together a nice video of the song.
Here's the link. Let me know what you think!

Pale Moon on the Prairie

A hearty thanks as big as the Wyoming sky to all the western DJs who've been playing my new album, Pale Moon on the Prairie. It is currently #6 on the top 30 Western Album Chart.

 Sample the CD here or on YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, CD Universe, Amazon and CDBaby.

CBS TV The Good Wife

Hey all...
My recording of "The Song of Iowa" will be featured on the CBS TV show "The Good Wife" on Sunday, January 10 @ 9 pm EST. Hope you can tune in!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5265742/?ref_=ttep_ep11

It's an honor to have my recording of "Hail! South Dakota" featured on the WNYC program: Only Human.
The episode is Dreaming of a Deaf Utopia. It's an interesting and moving story about Marvin Miller, a deaf man, who's dream was to design and build the town of Laurent; a town of deaf residents, businesses and government.

Listen here:

https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/544203

My recording of the Mississippi State Song, Go! Mississippi (The State Songs Vol. 2) will be featured in the WGBH PBS special "Freedom Summer" airing on June 26, 2014 on your local PBS station.  http://www.cdbaby.com/AlbumDetails.aspx?AlbumID=pickren12