Pipp Gillette and Lloyd Wright serenade us with a popular 1950s song. Pipp and Lloyd perform Singin' the Blues" during the "Blues on the Range" show at the 38th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Pipp Gillette
Crockett, TX
Pipp Gillette lives and works on the family ranch near Lovelady, Texas, where his grandfather started raising cattle and cotton in 1912. Drawing on a lifelong interest in western history and music, Pipp plays traditional cowboy tunes and songs on guitar, banjo, harmonica, and bones, and tells stories of the American West. Pipp and his late brother, Guy, performing as the Gillette Brothers, received Western Heritage Awards in 2011 and 2013. For his CD with Waddie Mitchell, Singing Songs by Waddie and Pipp, Pipp received the award for Outstanding Western Album in 2016. In addition to raising beef cattle, Pipp is also a master carver–and collector–of wooden duck and shorebird decoys.

Lloyd Wright
Crockett, TX
Lloyd is a fourth-generation Texan. He and his family were introduced to dulcimers and old-time string band music in the summer pf 1994. In 2000, he won the National Mountain Dulcimer Championship at the age of 18. Now settled down with his wife and three kids in the heart of Davy Crockett National Forest, Lloyd regularly performs old-time and country gospel with his wife, mother, and brother. He first heard Guy and Pipp Gillette perform when he was a teen, and he has followed their music over the years Lloyd combined forces with Pipp following the passing of Pipp's brother, Guy. This seemed to follow a natural progression as he was familiar with Pipp's repertoire. Lloyd and his family run two music festivals in East Texas, including his very own Old Mill Music Festival.

"Singin' the Blues" (words + music by Melvin Endsley)

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Filmed in front of a live audience with help from the E. L. Wiegand Foundation at the Western Folklife Center’s G Three Bar Theater in Elko, NV, on Feb. 1, 2020.

Made possible by the multitude of staff, artists, volunteers, and community members working behind the scenes to make this show happen.

Brought to you by the Western Folklife Center, using story and cultural expression to connect the American West to the world.
www.westernfolklife.org

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