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==Musical career==

==Musical career==

For more than a decade he was part of the Bar D Wranglers, known for a chuckwagon supper and western musical/comedy program popular with tourists in Durango. With the other Wranglers, Gary Cook, Bob Minser, and Jerry Baxter, and his wife Julie as instrumental accompanists, Ryder released the cassette tape "Blue Shadows", named for a 1948 lead song "Blue Shadows on the Trail" by the Sons of the Pioneers. On this tape, he sings solo in his baritone voice such selections as "Man Walks Among Us", "Rocky Mountain Express", "Night Rider's Lament", "They Call the Wind Mariah", "The Wayward Wind", and "El Paso". "Jim" is a lament about the death of a fellow [[cowboy]], which prompts his young friend "to wear a tie today". The song "Texas Rangers" is about a march to the [[Rio Grande]] of a unit of [[Texas Rangers]] whose "time had come to die."<ref>Frontier Records, Durango, Colorado, 1994</ref>

For more than a decade he was part of the Bar D Wranglers, known for a chuckwagon supper and western musical/comedy program popular with tourists in Durango. With the other Wranglers, Gary Cook, Bob Minser, and Jerry Baxter, and his wife Julie as instrumental accompanists, Ryder released the cassette tape "Blue Shadows", named for a 1948 lead song "Blue Shadows on the Trail" by the Sons of the Pioneers. On this tape, he sings solo in his baritone voice such selections as "Man Walks Among Us", "Rocky Mountain Express", "Night Rider's Lament", "They Call the Wind Mariah", "The Wayward Wind", and "El Paso". "Jim" is a lament about the death of a fellow [[cowboy]], which prompts his young friend "to wear a tie today". The song "Texas Rangers" is about a march to the [[Rio Grande]] of a unit of Texas Rangers whose "time had come to die."<ref>Frontier Records, Durango, Colorado, 1994</ref>

   

   

Ryder's CD releases on his own label include: "Life Is Flyin' By" (2005), "Where the River Goes" (2007), which includes "Cowboy Blues" and "Swingin' in the Saddle", and "American Western" (2008), with seventeen selections, ranging from "Oh Shenandoah", "Along the Santa Fe Trail", "The Wayfaring Stranger", and "Ghost Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend".<ref name=artistinfo/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://music.ovi.com/za/en/nm/Artist/Greg-Ryder/1218691|title=Greg Ryder|publisher=music.ovi.com|accessdate=June 30, 2013}}</ref>

Ryder's CD releases on his own label include: "Life Is Flyin' By" (2005), "Where the River Goes" (2007), which includes "Cowboy Blues" and "Swingin' in the Saddle", and "American Western" (2008), with seventeen selections, ranging from "Oh Shenandoah", "Along the Santa Fe Trail", "The Wayfaring Stranger", and "Ghost Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend".<ref name=artistinfo/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://music.ovi.com/za/en/nm/Artist/Greg-Ryder/1218691|title=Greg Ryder|publisher=music.ovi.com|accessdate=June 30, 2013}}</ref>