The Ballad of Alberta and the Gypsy Cowboy
A Fresh New Read by J.Robert Houghtaling
The Book:
A romance-fantasy based on true life adventures of a modern-day musician songwriter makes “The Ballad of Alberta and the Gypsy Cowboy” a factual fiction of stories and songs
Wandering spirit chronicles—part sunbaked truth, part starlit reverie—drawn from decades spent chasing melodies across America's forgotten corners with only a battered guitar case and pocketful of half-written verses to call home.
The words on the page seem to come alive, the sound of a fiddle and the strumming of a guitar filling the air as the pages turn. The voice of the musician storyteller echoes in the reader.
The soulful singing of a song and any excuse for a party.
The Author:
With Florida Cracker blood running five generations deep, J. Robert traded palmetto scrub for high desert sagebrush and mountain lupine when his family relocated to Idaho Falls in 1959. His fiddle, guitar, and gift of songs found their voice among Idaho's tall mountain pines and Boise's neon-lit honky-tonks before the pull of palmetto scrub and salt air called him back to Florida's sun-soaked shores in 1984.
There, he forged his signature sound: salt-rimmed storytelling that marries Jimmy Buffett's coastal ease with Baxter Black's cowboy poetry, best savored over Sunday morning coffee.
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