Like the meadowlark, Jamie Parker-Frank’s voice is clear and lyrical. Like the mockingbird, her music brings forth a variety of sounds. Descended from a pioneering Idaho cowboy-singer, Jamie is naturally at home in western music wherever she makes her home. A versatile writer and singer, she weaves strains of jazz, classical, swing, gospel, and folk music into a western style uniquely her own. Jamie performs traditional cowboy songs and ballads the pioneers brought west. In her own songs, the vivid pictures she paints bring alive wagon trains, cattle drives, and barn dances.
On Songs This Cowgirl Sings (her first CD) the stories of living and working on the western plains and mountains are at once hers and ours. Before moving to Colorado, Jamie lived and worked throughout California, Oregon and Wyoming. Life included stints in lumber towns, an Indian reservation, and mountain ranching communities – from the ocean to mountains and high deserts.
She recently released her second CD, Hope Piled High, to much critical acclaim from everyone who has heard it. The songs reflect an interest in her family's pioneer heritage and her interest in the historical roots of her music. She has also continued drawing on her musical diversity with a number of the songs as well.
Jamie has performed at the Western Music Association’s Annual Music Festival,Albuquerque, NM; at the North East Nevada Museum during the 2007 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Elko, NV; Cowboy Songs & Range Ballads, Cody, WY; Virginia City, MT Cowboy Gathering; Thermopolis,WY Cowboy Poetry Gathering; the Cheyenne, WY Cowboy Music Symposium; and the Cody, WY Stampede.
She sings on stage, in clubs, churches, community and civic events. Just as there have always been painters who give expression to the west with their art, Jamie’s talents give true expression to western music. Idaho cowboy poet Smoke Wade agrees, “When it comes to cowgirl singers, Jamie is certainly the ‘Real Deal.’”
Jamie lives in Montrose, Colorado with her husband, a pastor whose own family spans ten generations of California ranchero history.
