Dave Stamey

Dave Stamey has been a cowboy, a mule packer, and a dude wrangler, and has made it his life's work to celebrate the rural American west. In the past two decades he has recorded eleven albums of original music, traveled literally hundreds of thousands of miles, and performed thousands of shows doing just that.

Western Horseman has declared his "Vaquero Song" to be one of the greatest Western songs of all time. Cowboys & Indians has called him "the Charlie Russell of Western Music." And his 2021 book of short stories and essays, Pigaroo and the Code of the West, has been called "heartfelt, humorous, and real."

In 2016, he was inducted into the Western Music Hall of Fame. He has been recognized 5 times by True West Magazine as the Best Living Solo Western Musician, and was honored in 2019 at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum with the Chester A. Reynolds Memorial Award.

He lives in the farthest northeastern corner of Tulare County, California, and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains begin just outside his back door.

"It doesn't matter if you are a farmer, an electrician, deputy sheriff, horse shoer, own a tire dealership, or are an English major at Stanford, Davey will touch your heart through laughter and song."
— Baxter Black, author, poet, humorist, radio commentator

"Perhaps the greatest cowboy balladeer alive today."
— Seth Hopkins, Director, Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA

"If you haven't discovered him yet, it's time you broadened your horizons."
— Cowboys and Indians Magazine

Website: davestamey.com