Jon Chandler is a three-time winner of the prestigious Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. Linwood, his moody examination of Doc Holliday’s life won the Spur for Best Song, as did his tribute to Wyoming’s Hole in the Wall country, Morning Star Moon. His novel The Spanish Peaks received the WWA’s Medicine Pipe Bearer Award (Spur Award) and he was named True West Magazine’s Best Western Musician. Wyoming Wind, A Novel of Tom Horn, was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. A seventh-generation Coloradan, Jon’s music and stories reflect his heritage, and his 11 CDs, two novels, three non-fiction works and myriad short stories and nonfiction articles are collected by western lifestyle aficionados worldwide. 10-9-21, Jon Chandler Live! is his latest recording, released in 2022, while Homage, a highly praised collection of cover songs that have influenced his writing and singing was released in 2021. He is at work on a new recording, I’m Still Here. Chandler has travelled throughout the country performing at concert venues, honky-tonks, nightclubs, cowboy poetry gatherings and music festivals, and has appeared everywhere from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville to the Congressional Earth Day Reception in Washington D.C. He was most recently honored with the Branding Iron Award by the Friends of the William S. Hart Museum in Newhall, California.
