Glenn's laconic version of a Curley Fletcher song and parody. Glenn Ohrlin was a music historian and collector. No one could duplicate his hilarious performance style.

From the 10th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Glenn Ohrlin
Mountain View, AR
Glenn Ohrlin was born in Minneapolis in 1926 and was a cowboy virtually all of his life. At age 14, his family moved to California, and at age 16 he left home to become a rodeo bronc rider in Nevada. He worked as a ranch hand and rode the rodeo circuit for a number of years. He ranched and ran a cow outfit in the Ozark hills near Mountain View, Arkansas. Glenn was best know as a collector and performer of cowboy songs, range balladsm stories and poems. Named a National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellow in 1985, Glenn had a mesmerizing style that is understated, powerful and hilarious. He died in 2015.

"The Wild Buckaroo" words music by Curley Fletcher

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Filmed in front of a live audience at the Elko Convention Center’s Laurena Moren Theater in Elko, NV, on Jan. 26, 1994.

Made possible by the multitude of staff, artists, volunteers, and community members working behind the scenes to make this show happen.

Brought to you by the Western Folklife Center, using story and cultural expression to connect the American West to the world.
www.westernfolklife.org

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