OHR Presents: Pipp Gillette

Ozark Highlands Radio

This week, legendary award winning Texas cowboy singer-songwriter and poet Pipp Gillette recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, interviews with this canorous cow-poke. “Pipp Gillette lives and works on the family ranch near Lovelady, Texas, where his grandfather started raising cattle and cotton in 1912. Pipp and his late brother Guy received the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Traditional Western Album of 2011 and the 2013 Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Original Western Composition for their performance of the Waddie Mitchell song "Trade Off.” Drawing on a lifelong interest in Western history and music, Pipp plays traditional cowboy music on guitar, banjo, harmonica and bones. Pipp’s first solo CD, Singing Songs by Waddie and Pipp received the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Traditional Western Album of 2016. His newest CD, PippGillette with Lloyd Wright was released fall 2018.” Pipp is accompanied in this performance by Lloyd Wright. https://www.campstreetcafe.com/guy&pipp.htm In this week’s “From the Vault” segment, musician, educator, and country music legacy Mark Jones offers a 1975 archival recording of Ozark original Freeman Thomas performing the song “The Cowboy and the Wheel,” from the Ozark Folk Center State Park archives. Author and historian Brooks Blevins provides a native’s view of the people, music, and colorful events that shape the Ozark region. This week, Brooks presents a profile of Oscar Gilbert, the husband of famed folk singer Ollie Gilbert. Also, we’ll hear an archival recording of Oscar singing the classic “Ballad of Cole Younger.”