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The Butte Creek Wranglers have logged over 1200 miles on horseback as working cowboys guiding clients over the Cascade Mountains on horse drives and sharing their own blend of traditional cowboy music and poetry. Their down-home humor recalls a time when your horse was your best friend and a handshake was your word. The popular Butte Creek duo includes:
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Scott DePaolo, leader of the Butte Creek Boy Scout Ranch, spends time working with disadvantaged children in rural Clackamas County. He teaches them how to be responsible for animals on a full-time working horse ranch, and how to twirl a lariat. It is this authenticity that set his performances apart from the norm. He is not a performer reciting, but rather a cowboy just sharing his life or, at least, some version of it that is, "purt-a-near true". He delights young and old alike with rhymed and metered poetry performed tongue-in-cheek as comfortably and naturally as telling you what he did on a trip to town. |
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Mark Johnston runs a little horse operation on the ridge just above Butte Creek Scout Ranch. He supports his family, horses and dreams as an employee of the City of Salem at the Water Treatment Facility. A cowboy at heart, Mark enjoys packing horses into the wilderness areas with Scott and composing and playing music. His guitar has always been his constant companion and he has spent many hours around campfires with Scott, sharing his musical gifts with clients in the hills and woods of Oregon. He provides unique backup music and song for Scott's poetry performances, but it's his vocal solos that will take you along on that horse drive where the wind and the coyotes are your companions and self-reliance is a way of life. |
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