Don Edwards

Don Edwards (March 20, 1939 – October 23, 2022) was an American cowboy singer, guitarist, and recording artist who specialized in Western music. Two of his albums, Guitars & Saddle Songs and Songs of the Cowboy, are included in the Folklore Archives of the Library of Congress.

Edwards released more than a dozen solo albums from 1980 through 2010, as well as a greatest hits collection. He also recorded the album High Lonesome Cowboy with Peter Rowan, Tony Rice, and Norman Blake, three leading bluegrass musicians.

Biography Edwards was born in Boonton, New Jersey, on March 20, 1939.

In popular culture Edwards played the character Smokey in Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer. Edwards also performed the song "Coyotes" that plays during the final minutes of the documentary Grizzly Man.

Discography 1980 Happy Cowboy 1990 Desert Nights and Cowtown Blues 1991 Chant of the Wanderer 1992 Songs of the Trail 1993 Goin' Back To Texas 1994 The Bard and the Balladeer: Live from Cowtown (with Waddie Mitchell) 1996 West Of Yesterday 1997 Saddle Songs (a collection of the albums Guitars & Saddle Songs and Songs of the Cowboy) 1998 Best Of Don Edwards 1998 My Hero, Gene Autry: A Tribute 2000 Prairie Portrait 2001 On the Trail (with Waddie Mitchell) 2001 Kin To The Wind: Memories Of Martin Robbins 2004 Last Of The Troubadours: Saddle Songs Vol. 2 2004 High Lonesome Cowboy (with Peter Rowan) 2006 Moonlight & Skies 2009 Heaven on Horseback 2010 American 2013 Just Me and My Guitar