Bob Bennett, My Dad, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Platters, James Taylor, Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss and Union Station, George Strait, Rod Taylor, Dardon Smith, Ben Gibbard, Patty Griffin...
Sounds Like
Don Edwards, R.W. Hampton, closest to acoustic folk music.
Cowboy music began as cowboys sang to lull the herd to sleep on the bedground on the long trail drives from south Texas to Kansas, Wyoming and Montana. Today, it is a folk music that tells the story of the American cowboy...past, present and future.
Born in Brownwood, Texas, Jeff grew up in a pastor's home. From the time anyone can remember, all Jeff wanted to be was a cowboy. Though many children say this for a time, the desire never left him as he grew older. At age three, Jeff began singing for churches, civic and community groups with his family. The desire to be a cowboy continued in his heart and at about the age of ten, he began working on a ranch owned by friends of the family who had a son about his age. He graduated from Howard Payne University in 1984 and from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1986. For twelve years he ministered in local churches as youth, music, and education minister, day-working on ranches all he could. Jeff had continued singing and entertaining through the years, and because he mostly sang cowboy and gospel music, he began to get invited to cowboy poetry/music gatherings, chuck wagon competitions, ranch rodeos, and community celebrations across the country. Eventually, these cowboy events began using Jeff's abilities as a minister to do church services around the chuck wagons and in the rodeo arenas. For over thirteen years, Jeff has been traveling full time singing cowboy music and doing ministry. Jeff lives in Coleman County, just south of Abilene, TX with his family on a small ranch. He cowboys on ranches and ministers in ranching and rural areas as well as singing at many of those same cowboy events. He has recorded six albums of cowboy and gospel music, was named the Male Vocalist of the Year by the Academy of Western Artists in 1997 and has been nominated several other times. He has appeared in movies with Tommy Lee Jones, Sissy Spacek, and Farah Fawcett, among others, and has appeared in commercials for Maxwell House Coffee, and Chevy Trucks. Jeff is respected by the cowboys with which he rides as a true hand. This is what he is most proud of. After all, from the time anyone can remember, all Jeff wanted to be was a cowboy.
Contacting Jeff Gore:
325-280-5457 www.jeffgore.org
or email us at: jeffanddonnagore@yahoo.com
Three new Christmas songs up. With a little Texas swing. "White Christmas", "Winter Wonderland" & "Missing You At Christmas". Come by and let me know what you think. Judy DeRamus with The Jordanaires
Hey Friends! Just wonderin' if ya'll are grandparents yet? I hadn't heard and was just checkin' on Addie. See ya'll in Amarillo in November, I hope. Got our reservations made!!!
Thank you kindly for adding me to your friends list! Love your music and singing, but especially the yodeling! Reminds me of my dad, he'd sing and yodel while we were working around the farm and he claimed it calmed the cattle when we were working them. All I know is, I loved it and I sure miss it! So it truly is music to my ears!
Seems like we've got a few things in common, amigo. My father was a pastor for many years, and I've got a seminary degree, too. Hope all is well on your end, Take care... Mark
