Western Music & Cowboy Americana
Katy Creek Band
Katy Creek Band
Wes and Nancy Ruybal perform Western Americana, Cowboy Poetry and Gospel. With a pure, uncomplicated style, they present renditions and recitations about the American West and its people from the modern day working cowboy the to its original settlers. Wes grew up horseback, cowboying with his father and brothers. His family's cowboy heritage dates back to the settling of the San Luis Valley in in Colorado. Wes's poetry and songs reflect his many experiences as a working cowboy including the folks he's met and the places he has worked.
Nancy, a country girl from Ohio, began writing and performing folk music at age fourteen. When they came together, it was only natural their music and poetry would speak of our great American Heritage, the settling of the West and Wes's own cowboy experiences in the modern world.
A Katy Creek Concert is an exciting adventure of life and love, laughter and tears, with a dash of murder, mayhem and mystery you won't want to miss.
Photograph by Lori Faith Merritt www.photographybyfaith.com
A Few Reviews
Katy Creek, Wes & Nancy Ruybal, western performers from Arizona, Have begun to build a solid reputation for putting on finely tuned performances.... Nancy's hearfelt vocals place her as the bands centerpiece. After a song finds its way through her wonderful vibrato to your ears, you are completely satisfied...and Nancy has become a force to be reckoned with as a songwriter.
The songwriting of Wes Ruybal evidences a writer who has lived the cowboy life-the REAL Cowboy life. This isn't "stuff we already know" as Billy Joe Shaver wrote, from watching television and reading books. This is stuff that's been lived. It's authoritative...
Marvin O'Dell
2007 Western Music Association DJ of the Year
Around the Campfire at HeartlandPublicRadio.org
Ralph and Tamara of Ralph's Backporch Radio gave this review;
I've heard the Texas breezes play in the tops of tall oak trees. I have heard the laughter of people enjoying a good song. I have heard a child at play. All these sounds make me smile and all these sounds are good, and now, right there amongst these wonderful sounds I have heard a band called Katy Creek make beautiful music for the heart and soul.
A Fresh new sound I find completely charming! Katy Creek's "Autumn's On Its Way " is a compelling album and Katy Creek, Outstanding!
Dee Strickland Johnson AKA Buckshot Dot, Academy of Western Artists Female Cowboy Poet of the Year
