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Tom Chambers
Photograph by Mary Lou Chambers Tom is also an outstanding guitarist, and he brings out his harmonica occasionally to add another dimension to his great Western sound.
Storytelling is a wonderful art form for the Western/cowboy artist, and Tom is one of the best. One of his well-known stories, a Tom Chambers original, is "A Good Trade." Tom's humor is one of his greatest assets on stage. "The Elevator" and "A Good Trade," both discussed above, are examples of his humor. Tom has written special words to "Rawhide," the theme of the long-running television show, that are appropriate to the dude ranch circuit. One of the Baxter Black poems he can usually be persuaded to recite, "Cow Attack," is one of the funniest stories, and Tom's delivery is great. Tom's repertoire includes so much humor that his latest CD, "Horse Laughs," is made up entirely of that sort of material. In addition to "Horse Laughs," Tom has released two other CDs, "Ranch Requests" and "Southern Range." For CD information, click here. Some of Tom's career highlights are:
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Tom
Chambers is a great all-around cowboy artist. He sings a mix of his
original songs, such as "Green Sonoita Hills" and "La
Luna de Sonora;" traditional songs such as "Ghost Riders"
and "Back in the Saddle Again;" and lesser-known Western songs
that are deserving of widespread attention, such as "Spanish is the
Loving Tongue" (written around the turn of the 20th century by
Charles Badger Clark) and "Man Walks Among Us" (a prophetic
song written by Marty Robbins in the late 1950s). 
As a cowboy poet, Tom wrote a very famous
poem, "The Elevator." It's one of those that has been
plagiarized many times, but Tom is clearly the originator of this very funny
story in verse form. Tom also recites poetry by other writers
such as Baxter Black. 
Tom won a regional
Emmy for writing the score for the documentary "A Warning to
Beware." A song from that documentary, "Thunder
Across the Desert," is a great and very exciting composition.