Brady Bowen

Brady Bowen prides himself on being a Multi-World Class cutting horse trainer and rider. The covers of the first six of his CDs have a picture of him riding cutting horses he
trained and rode that won over $100,000 each or more in world class competitions. The CDs are comparably named “In My Spare Time” volumes 1 through 6. In his “spare time,” to this date he has recorded over 10 CD albums and two live video DVDs. Along with the six “In My Spare Time” CD series, he has Volume 7, a “Tribute To Billy Dozier” CD plus Volume 8 “Instrumentals 1” and Volume 9, “Tribute to Bobby Boatright, Leon Chambers, and Tom Morrell,” former band members of his band “Swing Country,” all of whom have since passed on, plus his most recent CD, Volume 10, “Old Pictures in a new Frame.” All CDs showcase many of the best Western Swing musicians and vocalists of our time. As a musician and horse trainer, it has helped Brady keep two Texas western traditions alive – Western Swing Music (The official Music of the State of Texas), and training cutting horses. Not only is Brady a world class Texas horse trainer but also a renowned Texas fiddle player.

Brady is, and has been, a supporter of many Western Swing music organizations for
many years and received the President’s Choice Award in May, 2009, from the
Cowtown Society of Western Music and currently serves on the CSWM advisory board.
In September 2009, the Academy Of Western Artists awarded Brady Bowen and his
Swing Country Band the 2009 Western Swing “Group of the Year.” Since that time he
has been inducted into the CSWM Heroes Hall of Fame, the North West Western Swing
Music Society of Seattle Hall of Fame (2010), the Western Swing Society of
Sacramento Hall of Fame (2011), the Western Swing Music Society of the Southwest
(WSMSS) Hall of Fame (2011), in 2012 he was nominated once again for “Western
Swing Band of the Year” by the (AWA) and in 2013 won “Album of the Year” for his
Volume 9 Tribute also by the Academy of Western Artists (AWA), in 2018 CSWM “Band
of the Year,” along with being inducted into the prestigious Texas Western Swing Music
Hall of Fame in San Marcos, Texas.

Brady is a National World Class Cutting Horse Championship competition judge. Now,
“In His Spare Time,” he dedicates this time to promoting, producing, and recording
many different genres of Country, Western, and Western Swing Music through the
Bowen-Higgins Studio located on his ranch in Jacksboro, TX. Volumes 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10
plus many state-wide, regional and area artist’s CDs, all were produced, mixed,
recorded, and mastered by Brady & Howard at the Bowen-Higgins Studio since it’s
beginning in 2010.

Always a family man, Brady and wife Laura live just outside of Jacksboro, Texas, on the
Bowen Ranch and have two grown children: son Weston and daughter Scarlet.