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AUGUST 18�25, 2021
SOUND CHECK
WHAT’S PLAYING AROUND
THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Coyote Joe returns to Baker City
Show is Aug. 22 in Geiser-Pollman Park
By Lisa Britton
Go! Magazine
Travel Baker County
Coyote Joe performs Sunday, Aug. 22,
in Baker City’s Geiser-Pollman Park.
POWDER RIVER
MUSIC REVIEW
4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 22
Geiser-Pollman Park
Baker City
Free
For updates on concerts,
visit “Powder River Music
Review” on Facebook or
check the website www.
bakercityevents.org.
BAKER CITY — Coyote Joe has been all over this country, and
on Sunday he’s bringing his western music to Geiser-Pollman
Park.
“All the classics from the ‘30s, ‘40s, ‘50s,” he said.
Coyote Joe — also known as Joe Sartin — will play for
the Powder River Music Review on Aug. 22. The show starts
at 4 p.m. Admission is free, although donations are
welcome.
Raffl e tickets, also supporting the music series, are
sold at each concert — $5 each or 15 for $20 — for a
chance to win the week’s gift basket.
For his concert, Sartin may play songs by the likes
of Conway Twitty, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash and
Don Williams.
“I play off the cuff because a lot of folks will send up
requests,” he said. “As long as the people are listening,
I’ll play music for them.”
Sartin, who lives in Milton-Freewater, has been play-
ing music and performing for about 60 years.
He got his fi rst guitar at age 9.
“Four dollars, Sears & Roebuck. It was plastic,” he
said with a laugh.
He played with bands through his teen years, then
joined some other musicians while serving in the
U.S. Navy.
“I met some fellers who played bluegrass and country. We
took it to Europe,” Sartin said.
He “cowboyed” for 45 years, playing at bars and cattle drives
along the way. He has stories of country legend Chris LeDoux,
Don Williams and others. He was there, he said, when LeDoux
worked out his song “You Just Can’t See Him From the Road.”
“It tells the true cowboy life,” Sartin said.
Now in semi-retirement, he drives for medical transports.
“And I take my guitar,” he said.
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