{"id":61573,"date":"2018-11-02T10:54:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T16:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/on-the-air-ksjd-dj-earns-international-recognition-for-second-consecutive-year\/"},"modified":"2018-11-02T16:54:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T16:54:20","slug":"on-the-air-ksjd-dj-earns-international-recognition-for-second-consecutive-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/on-the-air-ksjd-dj-earns-international-recognition-for-second-consecutive-year\/","title":{"rendered":"On the air: KSJD DJ earns international recognition for second consecutive year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=4cf2c05b-fb3c-4fb5-9836-e38c3208446f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Mancos resident Barbara Richhart has been a DJ for KSJD in Cortez for more than 15 years. She was recently awarded DJ of the Year by Pro Cowboy Country Artist Association.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Mancos resident Barbara Richhart has been a DJ for KSJD in Cortez for more than 15 years. She was recently awarded DJ of the Year by Pro Cowboy Country Artist Association.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Barbara Richhart<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>For more than15 years, Mancos resident Barbara Richhart has kept the airways at<\/p>\n<p>And for the past two years, she has been recognized as DJ of the Year by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.procowboycountryartistassociation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pro Cowboy Country Artist Association<\/a> for her work.<\/p>\n<p>PCCAA, which held its second annual awards in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on Oct. 13, is an association made up of professional creators and entertainers. According to its website, association members \u201care cowboys and cowgirls living and creating the lifestyle while others share a devoted love of the West and its colorful history. The West is Cowboy Country. Its music, stories, poetry and Western novels, as well as Western craftsman who make knives, saddles, spurs and musical instruments contribute to the rich history of the West. The cowboy and cowgirl artist are expanding the boundaries of the culture by mixing old with new and new with old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richhart is originally from eastern Kentucky, where her father worked in the coal mines. She and her family moved to Colorado when the mines closed. Richhart married a rancher and \u201cthat was my life. It had become my life completely; it absorbed me,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd when I retired, I had all this music, I had all this time on my hands, so what could I do? I give back to my community and give back to the artists and the folks that appreciate it by playing the music.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FovsBQkcZaE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Initially, Richhart hadn\u2019t planned on being on the radio, much less hosting her own show \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowtrails.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CowTrails<\/a>\u201d on Sundays on KSJD. She later added another set on Tuesdays on KCEG out of Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a gig that has only gotten bigger over time, Richhart said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(KSJD was) looking for DJs, and I had a lot of cowboy music,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve been doing \u2018CowTrails\u2019 continuously, but when I first started off, I only did a 30-minute section, and I also did the market report with my show at 6 o\u2019clock in the morning. It wasn\u2019t long before it was increased to an hour, then two hours, and now, it\u2019s three.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richhart fills her show with two hours of cowboy-Western music and reserves the third hour for what she calls \u201cOut of the Corral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI step out of the corral and I play anything and everything \u2013 just whatever hits my fancy or what hits my listeners\u2019 fancy. It\u2019s a lot of fun to do it that way,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s all music. It\u2019s all good. There is so much great music out there that there is no reason to classify music. There\u2019s two kinds of music: There\u2019s good music and there\u2019s better. That\u2019s it, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said there is a difference between what many may consider to be cowboy-Western music and country music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the real older music, country and Western, there was not really a big difference in it. The instrumentation changed it; adding drums to it; adding a lot of different instruments changed the country music, and they kind of dropped Western off because the Western was so uncomplicated; there weren\u2019t a lot of drums or other instruments: You had a bass, a guitar, a fiddle. Maybe an accordion. And that made a difference in the music,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t see any difference in any music; I don\u2019t like to claim genres. And that\u2019s why I do it (\u2018Out of the Corral\u2019) because my listeners demand it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7c68179d-0136-4bd0-84d1-9a99ea145f9b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"Barbara Richhart, a DJ at KSJD in Cortez was recently named DJ of the year for the second year in a row.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Barbara Richhart, a DJ at KSJD in Cortez was recently named DJ of the year for the second year in a row.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Barbara Richhart<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>There is also time set aside in \u201cCowTrails\u201d for talking to Colorado artists on air with Richhart\u2019s one-hour \u201cLocal Artist Thursday,\u201d and she is also known for having house concerts in her Mancos home featuring cowboy-Western artists \u2013 complete with a potluck.<\/p>\n<p>Richhart said that she sees interest in Western music growing, in fact, her show has a large fan base, not just regionally, but in Germany and the United Kingdom as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty much international since we\u2019ve streamed both stations on the internet, so people all over the world tune in,\u201d Richhart said. \u201cEvery Sunday, I definitely get a message from my friends in Hamburg, Germany. They found me on the radio someplace, and they\u2019ve become fantastic fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But while interest in the music \u2013 and cowboy and cowgirl lifestyle \u2013 may be expanding because of technology, for Richhart, \u201cCowTrails\u201d \u2013 and cowboy-Western music \u2013 is about a lot more than just the music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an oral history of the West, and so much of the history of the West \u2026 sometimes, people say \u2018cowboy,\u2019 and look down their nose. It implies a lot of things to different people. And it\u2019s not the TV cowboy; this is the people that are out raising the hay and growing the food and taking care of the animals and taking care of the land. And that\u2019s what it\u2019s about,\u201d she said. \u201cThey live and breathe what they\u2019re singing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:katie@durangoherald.com\">katie@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-scoreboard\">\n<h4 class=\"scoreboard-title\">On the Net<\/h4>\n<p>Listen to Barbara Richhart\u2019s \u201cCowTrails\u201d from noon-3 p.m. Sundays on<br>\n                KSJD<br>\n                on 90.5 FM across the Four Corners. You may also catch Richhart at noon Tuesdays on<br>\n                KCEG<br>\n                , 105.1 FM. For more information about \u201cCowTrails\u201d and to hear archived shows, visit<br>\n                www.cowtrails.com<br>\n                .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Richhart longtime host of \u2018CowTrails\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,938,1167,13,28,29,2196],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-61573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-country-music","tag-exclude-homepage-video","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-radio"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61573"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=61573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}