Listening to a Storyteller playlist I created a while back on an early Arizona morning today (and knowing how much you all love a list) – I compiled a Dirty Dozen outlaw storytellers I’d like to invite around the camp-fire in the soon to be opened, freshly built Tonto’s rooftop bar in our Desert Dream enclave.

Here’s my Wild Bunch:

• Bruce Springsteen
• Tom Russell
• John Prine
• Robert Earl Keen
• Bob Dylan
• Leonard Cohen
• Kris Kristofferson
• Jerry Jeff Walker
• Johnny Cash
• Townes Van Zandt
• Guy Clark
• Billy the Kid (Joel that is)

Steaks on the BBQ, cold beers and fine red wine in the bar, coyotes howling, guitars playing, pianos pumping and stories humming.

What a night that would be.

Next week I’ll have to round up a list of favourite female storytellers to give the party some zing.

Tonight we ride.

KR