About me
Forrest VanTuyl is a songwriter and poet from Goldendale, Washington. Much of his work is based on years spent packing mules and cowboying in the steep, remote, alpine and canyon country of Wallowa County, Oregon. Early on, he paid for his songwriting and wandering addiction with all sorts of jobs, from tugboat deckhand to sheep dairyman, lawn mower to potato harvester operator. But when he got on a horse in the Wallowa Mountains, he never left. No Depression said of his music, “These are the real cowboy blues—long stretches of road, loneliness, inscrutable feelings and people.” Forrest has toured the United States and Europe extensively, written music for the US Forest Service, and been published in The New York Times.