Cowboy Jim Garling: BIO

Jim Garling can’t change the cattle market, but his music can sure enough make you take your mind off of it.

Boots tape, hands clap, and grins grow like new spring grass when this native Oklahoma Cowboy begins to play. If it’s live music you’re seeking for your event, there are few performers who bring more life to a room than the talented, personable Jim Garling of Guthrie, Oklahoma.

Jim loves reaching into the past not to imitate Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, the Sons of the Pioneers, or Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, but to combine their sounds for just the right mix of old-style, acoustic western cowboy music and western swing.

With guitar strap on shoulder, pick in hand, and a bushy mustache bordering that genuine smile, he’ll bring you and yours cowboy-era music, classics from Saturday matinee silver screen heroes, and some favorite tunes from contemporary artists who reflect on the cowboy life. In fact, Jim has recorded three CDs, reflecting each of those very styles in addition to one cowboy gospel CD.
Ask yourself the following…How would you like to bring someone to your gathering who has entertained at: The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City; the Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival at Guthrie, O; Western Heritage Days—Tom Mix Festival, Dewey, Oklahoma; Cherokee Strip Celebration, Perry, Oklahoma; Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma City; Pawnee Bill Museum Wild West Show, Pawnee, Oklahoma; Chisholm Trail Museum Kingfisher OK; Kolache Festival, Prague, Ok; Cheyenne Cowboy Symposum, Cheyenne, Wyoming; Western Music Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Jim is past President of the Oklahoma Chapter of the WMA); and the Gene Autry Oklahoma Film & Music Festival, Gene Autry, Oklahoma.

And you can rest assured, audiences young and old enjoy Jim’s incredible vocal style, his remarkable and long-proven guitar skills, and the little dose of short histories and interesting anecdotes he gladly shares about the songs he sings.