“You listened to whatever cassette tapes your parents had laying around or whatever anybody gave you.” “A lot of the places I lived you didn’t listen to the radio, ever, because you didn’t get it,” he explained. Growing up being a cowboy wasn’t always fashionable and likewise McBride’s choice of music was never dictated by what was at the top of the charts. “It was really simple, direct, straightforward music and I still love that kind of stuff.” “I think what I really like about it was a lot of that stuff I grew up listening to you could see yourself in that predicament,” McBride said. Just as he once followed the lead of heroes like Jim Sharp and Clint Branger, he’s now following in the footsteps of his earliest musical influences. Long before he climbed on the back of a bull he grew up in Nebraska listening to Hank Sr., and before he was even a teenager he discovered the music of Chris LeDoux. Of late, McBride has chronicled the only way of life he’s ever known as a singer, songwriter of tried-and-true cowboy music. Professionally speaking, McBride is a modern-day hero having won two World Championships as one of the most recognizable bull riders, and when he retired from the PBR after 11 years, he had laid claim to nearly every record in the organization’s history. In the traditional sense, just like his dad and grandpa, as well as another two generations of McBride’s before them, he lives on a working ranch in southwest Oklahoma with his wife and two children. In fact, the 30 year old is a fifth generation cowboy who represents the iconic imagery both personally and professionally. Whether you choose to use the word as a noun or a verb, Justin McBride is best described as a quintessential American cowboy.

Lone by Rowan McBride