Tom and Donna Hatton
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The best kept secret in music

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"Whispers of Voices"

Tom and Donna Hatton have brought poetry to a new horizon...The Hatton's have mastery second to none in western poetry and song as well. Whispers of Voices will change your concept of cowboy poetry and music for ever.
Joe Baker...Backforty Productions KNMB,KWMVW Radio, Ruidoso, New Mexico
Cowtown Society of Western Music Disc Jockey of the year 2004 and Texas Music Hall of Fame Inductee
AWA Disc Jockey of the year 2004 - Joe Baker , Backforty Productions and Promotions


"Poker Creek Productions"

Tom and Donna Hatton have joined the elite with the unigue, moving collection of poems and songs that is Western Through and Through. Whispers of Voices is a lovely work, featuring poems that border on lyric essays examining the very essence of Western Life and Legend.
Whispers of Voices is an aural Navajo blanket, woven around it's central theme: the odyssey of an old cowpoke, Charlie who has stories to tell. And through Tom and Donna's eyes, what stories they are. Donna's superb vocal talents are complimented by Tom's country delivery, melding together to present the listner with a genuinely emotional experience. As the poems them selves they are sinular perceptions, moving accounts of Western lives well lived.
Jon Chandler...Western Writers of America...Spur Award winning Author
Poker Creek Productions
Westminster, Colorado - Jon Chandler


Discography

Silver Shadows...CD
Whispers of Voices...CD
Family Connections...CD
A Cowboy's Legacy...CD
We have enjoyed radio and internet play, in the USA and internationationally. Family Connections has played on the top ten for a year in Belgium.

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Tom and Donna Hatton

We take you back to a time when you sat on the front porch with your grandpa, listening to the crickets as the The Lone Ranger played on the radio or you sang along to the songs of Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and the folk music of the cowboys.

As Cowboy Artists we carry our story into schools, to organizations, churches, weddings , funerals, Cowboy Gatherings and Festivals across the west
We share those memories as we write and perform original cowboy poetry and music, telling the stories of the American West and her people, a way of life, that to survive is having to adapt to ever increasing demands of society for space. We have taken the stories of our family history, of a ranching heritage that began in the mid 1700's in Texas and of the cowboys, miners and decendants of pioneer families who have graciously shared their stories, to fashion the music and poetry we write and perform. But if it was not for a young boy, yes, a relative from England who was shanghied aboard one of the "Tall Ships" a ship that wrecked off the coast of what is now Galvaston, Texas in the 1700's, we would not now be enjoying the privilege of sharing these stories as "Keepers of Memories " of the Hatton Clan. It was his story and many others like it that were told and retold around our dinner table at the Hatton Ranch, those hours of entertainment were the beginnings of our love of History and the desire to preserve our heritage as cattle ranchers and of our cowboy life in the 21st century.

Our poetry and music is a blend of the old cowboy folk or trail music and the original pieces we write to fit the poems we portray. Each poem is a mini drama woven around a song to create a scene with much of the poetry done as a duet. The songs are often like a conversation as we combine them into a musical canvas pulling the audience into the scene not only as watchers, but as participants. We invite the audience to close their eyes and in their minds to amagine they have come to sit around the campfire beneath the stars as we sit along side the Little Four Mile Creek on the West Side of Pikes Peak at the Hatton's Bar J H Ranch in the magnificent Colorado Rockies.

We have had a great experience this year as recipients of The Academy of Western Artists, Will Rogers Award for Cowboy Poetry CD Album of the Year 2005 and with our nominations for AWA Male and Female Cowboy Poets,Western duo and top ten nomination for western song, Texas Cowboy. Donna is a top five AWA Lady Cowboy Poet for 2003 and 2005.

We have compete and released our new CD featuring a reprise of the title song from Whispers of Voices. This CD introduces new characters from a post Civil War town Marshall to a cowboys love interest, Molly. Delightful doowop vocals of Jon Chandler and Ernie Martinez as well as their instrumental accompaniment to a California Swing style tune will guarantee a toe tapping Cowboy feel to the song Colorado Cowgirl and the playful song, I want To Yodle. There is a tribute to Cowboys of the Silver Screen in Silver Shadows, haunting harmonies in the songs, A Cowboy Prayer and Saddle Off The Wall reminding all of us of those long ago Saturday Afternoons spent watching and listening to our favorite heroes, Roy, Gene and Hoppy and the Sons of The Pioneers. And Oh yes! Molly and Saddle Off The Wall were written by ClassicHeartlands, DJ. Marvin O'Dell, host of Around The Campfire. Marvin is songwriter "EXTRAORDINAR!"
Tom and Donna are not a band, but they are a Cowboy's Legacy.