On January 25th, award winning Western Swing Hall of Famer Billy Bowles once again had the honor of revealing the 2020 Academy of Western Artists Final Five nominations for the 24th Annual Will Rogers Awards on his Swinging Country radio show broadcast from KSSL in Lubbock, Texas. Taryn Noelle was nominated for the Academy of Western Artists Western Swing Female Vocalist of the Year and Rick & The Ramblers was nominated for the Academy of Western Artists Western Swing Group/Duo of the Year. The awards ceremony will be held April 9th in Fort Worth, Texas, the cradle of Western Swing Music. Note: Taryn was honored at last year’s Will Rogers Awards with the AWA “Western Swing Female Vocalist of the Year!” Final Five nominations two years in a row.
Taryn Noelle is on a roll. Recently, Taryn laid down an amazing vocal performance on the Spade Cooley 1945 classic western swing hit song “Shame On You,” with sweet and spirited harmony support from The Blue Gardenias. The session at Lane Gibson Recording & Mastering Studios in Charlotte, Vermont, finished up the first half of our “God Bless The Mighty Pickle” album project. Listen for her latest recording very soon! Dena Wood from the Academy of Western Artists recently sent us a couple of charts from the week of January 7th, placing Taryn at Number 51 on New Zealand’s Top 200 Artist Chart and Number 35 on the Top 40 Singles Chart for her recording of “Right or Wrong.” We are wicked proud of our Taryn.