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About The
Author......WOODY WOODRUFF
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2005 ACADEMY OF
WESTERN ARTISTS
COWBOY POET OF THE YEAR (male) |
 Woody
Woodruff was born in Hickman Co. Kentucky.
He and Carla, his wife of thirty years, have been blessed with 3
daughters and son-in-laws. They have 3 granddaughters and 1
grandson. Woody is first and foremost, a family man who is very
proud of his family and is always ready to share information about
them and pictures of them. Visit his web site and you will find
posted by this proud father and grandfather,an abundance of photos
of his clan.
http://www.woodywoodruff.org
After spending his early years in west Tennessee and west Kentucky
he moved to Nacogdoches, Texas for a few years then in the mid
80's moved back to Tennessee to Centerville (Home of Minnie Pearl),
50 miles west of Nashville. Woody has always had a strong love
for the west and the western way of life. He owned horses for years;
and spent 12 years as manager of Country Gold Farms, a Quarter horse
operation just outside of Nashville.
Although he has written stories and poetry most of his life, in the
90s he devoted his writing to the west and the cowboy way of life.
He calls
himself "the World-Wide
Unknown Poet" but that belies the facts. Woody
has received many honors over the years culminating with being named
the Cowboy Poet ( male) of the year 2005 by The Academy Of Western
Artists. In 2004, he was top ten finalist for that honor along with
the poetry CD of the year. In 2004,he was chosen to play an extra in
the movie, "The Secret Life of Daltry Calhoun" that was released in
2005.
Woody says this about his poem, "That Fateful Day " :
"I'm here only because of THAT FATEFUL DAY. Even though I had written for a long time it was when I
wrote this poem that I began
recording. I felt it was
good enough to be recorded and sent it to a few
artists. I'd never recorded before, but people told me
I should cut it. So we did a demo. I sent it to Jo Hargrave and apologized for it being a demo. She
called me to say don't apologize as it made her cry
and would be on her show the next day. Then other
stations started playing it. Then people got to asking
for more so we cut a
full CD of my poems. I hope to
have a second CD in a couple months."
You can read more of the poetry of Woody Woodruff at
http://www.cowboypoetry.com/woody.htm
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