Sonoma County, California
Sonoma Cowboy Players

Hear The Legend

The Sonoma Cowboy Players are an experimental studio project that gets a song finished by whatever means necessary. Guitars, harmonicas, a fiddle borrowed from somebody's cousin, a synthesizer nobody remembers buying, and occasionally a machine doing the parts nobody felt like learning. No shows, no stage, no fixed method. Twanging guitars and tall tales, assembled from an odd pile of talent, people, and mysterious forces until the music sounds right.

CORE MEMBERS

Eric Coyote

Eric Coyote

Lyricist / Producer

Over the past 25 years, Eric has walked more than 150 million steps, or roughly three times around the Earth's equator.

  • Favorite Movie: Kelly's Heroes
  • Best Ice Cream: Mint chocolate chip
  • First Concert: Kool & the Gang, The Auditorium Theatre
Walt Morton

Walt Morton

Art Director / Synthesizer

Walt enjoys the scientific method but is still waiting for his mystical spirit totem animal to appear.

  • Favorite Movie: The Thing
  • Best Ice Cream: Green tea
  • First Concert: Iggy Pop, The Hot Club
Chaz Benjamin

Chaz Benjamin

Guitar / Harmonica / Sound Mixer / Producer

Chaz has lived in both New York and New Zealand, but claims to have never seen a Hobbit.

  • Favorite Movie: Three Brave Men
  • Best Ice Cream: Coffee chip
  • First Concert: Bruce Springsteen, Capital Centre
Seth Maynard, Jr.

Seth Maynard, Jr.

Guitar / Bass / Banjo / Mandolin / Vocals

Born in Sacramento, Seth learned to play the banjo by watching Steve Martin, Deliverance, and reruns of Hee Haw.

  • Favorite Movie: Police Academy
  • Best Ice Cream: Cookie dough
  • First Concert: Grass Valley Bluegrass Festival, Nevada County Fairgrounds