Doc Stovall

*      Doc Stovall is a professional entertainer who provides musical entertainment as well as discussions of the origins of traditional cowboy music as it relates to the Western entertainment and poetry we enjoy today.

*      Stovall also presents programs and conducts seminars on the writing and recitation of cowboy poetry.  In these presentations, he traces the roots of this genre to its beginnings at the “back of the chuck wagon” on the cattle drives to northern railheads.

*      He is also the musical component of the critically acclaimed “Trails Plowed Under” in partnership with Jim Dunham. These two have also developed the “Ballads and Bullets” program, featuring songs about gunfighters and silver screen heroes, along with equal doses of fancy gun tricks, humor and Western history.

A native Virginian, Doc has been associated with music most of his life.  His earliest influences include the traditional music associated with the Appalachian and Blue Ridge Mountain areas of the South, handed down from generation to generation since it’s inception in Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales.

He is well known as a Western singer and cowboy poet throughout America, having performed in twenty-five of the fifty states.  Honored in 2002 as Georgia’s Official Cowboy Balladeer by the Georgia State Legislature, he has entertained audiences both young and old as he strives to keep alive the history of the West in music and song.  In November of 2004, Doc was inducted into the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame, the first cowboy singer so honored.

Doc is employed as the Entertainment and Sponsorship Manager for the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. He also assists with the educational outreach effort and still manages to perform at festivals and gatherings all over the West.  Please call 770-606-5699 to book a show.
 

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