MTD Radio

KNMB, 96.7FM, "New Mexico's Bear" "Western Music Association's 2006-07

Radio Station of the Year"

KWMW, 105.1 FM, "W-105" "Western Music Association's

2007-08 Radio Station of the Year" Ruidoso, New Mexico

Academy of Western Artists 2004 Western Music Disc Jockey of the Year

Western Swing Music Society of the Southwest Inducted (July 21,2007) Western Swing Music Promoters Hall of Fame -Oklahoma City

Cowtown Society of Western Music (CSWM) Disc Jockey of the Year-2004

Cowtown Society of Western Music Hall of Fame Inductee-Fort Worth, Texas 2004 Nominated for the 2005 Academy of Western Artists Disc Jockey of the Year, KNMB, 96.7 FM Western Music Radio Station of the Year.

David E. Young's "The Backforty Bunkhouse" nominated for Western Swing Song of TheYear,2005

Nominated in the top five Western Music Association's 2006 Disc Jockey of the Year and KNMB 96.7 FM, New Mexico's Bear in the top five for western music Radio Station of the Year.

PROMOTING & PRESERVING OUR

WESTERN HERIT AGE

For those of us who love the romance of the "western lifestyle" Joe Baker perpetuates this unique form of Americana. With his slow southern drawl and a tip of his hat he will make you feel as if you were having a cup of coffee with him by a flickering' campfire when you tune in to his "Backforty Bunkhouse ShoW@ "airing on "New Mexico's Bear" and "W-1 05" in Ruidoso, New Mexico.

Joe is an avid fan of western swing, Texas honky-tonk, classic country, cowboy music and poetry, and can fill you in on the oldest to latest happenings in these fields of music. He has been promoting western swing and cowboy music for over 29 years. His radio show is broadcast throughout all the western states and is strictly "western". Although he is only 55 years of age, the show is reminiscent of radio programs that aired in the 40's and 50's. He plays requests, holds contests weekly, giving away new CD's & Tee shirts or backstage passes to concerts and has a diverse and loyal listening audience. He is surprised when a teenager will win a CD of Western Swing or Western Music and get so excited saying "Where did you find this kind of music?" Listeners are genuinely pleased to get their hands on it. Joe is helping to preserve this art form by promoting it and his younger listeners are proof of that.

Born and raised in Mineral Wells, Joe is not your typical Disc Jockey. His first radio program on radio station KYXS in Mineral Wells/Weatherford, Texas was called "Horse Sense on the Finish Line" where he handicapped racehorses for Lone Star Park in their inaugural and second season. Next he had a documentary show called "Horse Sense on the Cutting Edge" which traced the roots of the cutting horse in Parker county, Texas. The Backforty Bunkhouse ShoW@ began at KWES Radio in Ruidoso in June 2001 and ran until March, 2003, when he joined MTD Broadcasting, Inc., the umbrella over radio stations KNMB/KWMW/KIDX/ KTUM and KRUI. He has lived all his life hooked on all things "Western." Western swing and cowboy music have always been a big part of that. He does his best to perpetuate this art form.

Since having been nominated for Disc Jockey of the Year in 2002 and 2003 by the Academy of Western Artists and KNMB, 96.7 FM, "New Mexico's Bear" nominated for Radio Station of the Year in 2004. he has been featured in numerous magazines and other publications throughout the United States and Canada. He is also a member of the Western Music Broadcasters Association (WMBA) and the Academy of Western Artists "Southwest Region", which covers Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.

KNMB 96.7 FM, "New Mexico's Bear" and KWMW 105.1 FM are both 100,000-watt stations with studios in Ruidoso, New Mexico. Tune in to Joe Baker's Backforty Bunkhouse ShoW@ every Saturday morning from 6 AM to 10 AM only on "New Mexico's Bear" and Regional Radio "W-1 05!" Reporting to Texas Music Charts, Western Music Assn. Charts and CCMA Indie Charts.

Joe has performed as master of ceremonies for several venues over the years including many benefits:

.New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museums Cowboy Days Las Cruces, N.M. October,

2002, 2003, 2004

.Tucson Cowboy Music Roundup, Tucson, Arizona Co-Producer & MC, November, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

.3BarJ Ranch Western Swing Tribute, Co-Producer & MC, Tucson, Arizona February, 2004 .Marti Gras in the Mountains, Cloudcroft, New Mexico February 2003, 2004

.Georgia Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Cartersville, Georgia March, 2005

.Battle of the Bands, MC, Big Spring, Texas July, 2005

.Western Music Roundup, Cloudcroft, New Mexico June, 2003, 2004

.Cal Farley's Boys Ranch Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Amarillo, Texas. Broadcasting Seminars, June 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

.Hatch Valley Chili Festival, Hatch, New Mexico Co-Producer & Co-Host, September, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

.Red Lodge Music Festival, Red Lodge, Montana w/ Dan Seals & Myra Pearce, July, 2004 .Southwestern New Mexico State Fair, Las Cruces, New Mexico, W/Asleep At The Wheel/The

Desperados September, 2004

.Smokey Bears 61st Birthday Celebration, Producer & Nightly Dance MC, Capitan, New Mexico W/ Johnny Gimble/The Desperados.

.Western Music Association Awards Show & Festival Albuquerque, New Mexico November 2005, 2006, 2007 Co-Host.

.Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium, Ruidoso, New Mexico MC, October, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

.Producer, Annual Lincoln County Cowboy Christmas Ball w/ Jody Nix & The Texas Cowboys 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

.MC, Festival of the West, Phoenix, AZ 2006, 2007, 2008

He is the co-founder of the only Western Music Radio Chart published, not only nationally, but internationally thru Power Source Magazine in Nashville, Tennessee -monthly. There has never been a western music chart directed solely towards western music in the history of western music genre until January 2005.

Joe is also the founder of The Backforty Round Up, established in June 2005, a compilation CD produced monthly featuring western artists and poets for radio airplay to 177 plus radio stations throughout the United States and Canada. Your Western Swing, Honky-tonk and Cowboy music is very important to you and if you would like to have your material sent out to 167 radio stations in the United States and Canada, that plays our kind of music, please e-mail or call

Joe Baker

106 Roswell Street

Ruidoso, New Mexico 88345-6818

(575) 257-3955

Joe@ BackfortvBu n khouse .com

Visit Joe Baker's Website at:

www. BackfortvBunkhouse. corn

www. mvsoace. comlbackfortvbunkhouse

And visit these great websites as well !

www .cowtown-swm .ora

www .arizonacowbovsvmoosiu m .ora

www .westernmusic. ora

www. Qowersourcemusic.com

www .westtexascou ntrv .com

www.awa-awards.ora

www.duaacollins.com

www.bgmnetwork.com

www.wsmss.com

www.ruidoso.net

MEMBER Christian Country Music Association (CCMA)

Country Music Association of Texas (CMAT)

Western Music Broadcasters Association (WMBA)

Greater Arizona Country & Western Swing Assn. (GACWSA)

Arizona Cowboy Symposium Assn. (ACSA)

Western Swing Music Of The Southwest (WSMSS)

Academy of Western Artists (AWA)

Sacramento Western Swing Society (SWSS)

Western Music Association (WMA)

Western Swing Music Society of Seattle (WSMSS)

LIFETIME Member Cowtown Society of Western Music (CSWM) "Backforty Bunkhouse

Productions@" is Registered with the T exas Governor's Music Office, Austin, TX.

Served on the Board of Directors for the Western Music Assn.2005-2006

Membership Director, Cowtown Society of Western Music.

New Mexico Music Commission (www.newmexicomusic.org)

The "Backforty Bunkhouse" is a division of Backforty Bunkhouse Productions@

Backforty Bunkhouse Publishing -BMI

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