Dave Stamey has been called “the Charley Russell of Western Music.” Western Horseman Magazine has declared his “Vaquero Song” to be one of the greatest Western songs of all time. He's been a cowboy, a mule packer, a dude wrangler, and now makes his living inflicting himself on innocent people at music festivals, agricultural banquets and backyard barbeques. He finds he prefers this. He has been three times voted Entertainer of the Year, three times Male Performer of the Year and twice Songwriter of the Year by the Western Music Association, and has received the Will Rogers Award from the Academy of Western Artists.

He lives in Nipomo, California. He bets you don’t know where that is.