The Motel Cowboy Show Artist's Editions (Black Friday 2025
For Black Friday 2025, we are making our collection of Artist's Editions from our entire catalog — Red Dirt, The Motel Cowboy Show and Red Dirt Unplugged — available for a rare printing. These editions were pre-sale specials created in partnership with the artists and intended for diehards and lifelong fans.
This special print run is priced at $35, lower than these editions' original retail values, and is available through the 2025 Black Friday weekend. The cutoff for orders is 5 p.m. Eastern on Monday, December 1, 2025 to ensure arrival by December 23 in the U.S. Each book will be signed by the author.
The Motel Cowboy Show Artist's Editions, released in August 2023, were the capstone editions of The Motel Cowboy Show, each dedicated to a different artist and featuring 20-page bonus chapters that made these the definitive collector's editions of this book. The chapters feature never-before-seen interviews, concert reviews and photography showcasing the very best of artists central to the story of mountain music.
When placing this order, please choose your Artist's Edition:
• Reckless Kelly
• Micky and the Motorcars
All Artist's Editions feature a back cover photo of the artist, and a dedication from the artist.
About The Motel Cowboy Show
The Motel Cowboy Show is not a book — it’s a journey. From the Sawtooth Mountains of central Idaho, where phone service does not always reach, to the bustle of Austin, centerpiece of the Texas Music Scene, the influence of mountain roots music is real, lasting, and chronicled by Josh Crutchmer. This highly-anticipated sequel to Red Dirt: Roots Music, Born in Oklahoma, Raised in Texas, At Home Anywhere follows the threads from mountain originals like Pinto Bennett to cowboy poets like Baxter Black and Chris LeDoux, and traces their trail down every highway and back road they chose. The rise, heyday and pending touring retirement of Reckless Kelly is covered extensively, bouyed by the humor and introspection of Willy and Cody Braun, their musical upbringing and the larger-than-life influence they forged wherever they made music. The book also puts you in the seats at the venerable Red Rocks Amphitheater for the 2022 comeback concerts by the Turnpike Troubadours, supported by Reckless Kelly and Shovels & Rope. You’ll also get the complete story of the Braun Brothers Reunion and its lasting impact on the community of Challis. The wry humor of Micky and Gary Braun shows up when they share the way Micky & The Motorcars forged their own legacy, boosted by Texas icons like Cross Canadian Ragweed. Throw in one-of-a-kind insight from Shane Smith and Wade Bowen, who contributed the intro and final word, and The Motel Cowboy Show will inform as much as it entertains. And it will leave readers casting eyes toward the stages and studios of the American West.
The original book is 212 pages, including 20 pages of full-page, black-and-white photography of some of the best moments captured in the making of The Motel Cowboy Show.
All orders will ship via UPS Ground or USPS Priority Mail, or better.