Montana & Wyoming-based singer/songwriter Jackson Holte on Wyoming Sounds.

By Grady Kirkpatrick

Published July 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM MDT

Montana & Wyoming based singer/songwriter Jackson Holte on Wyoming Sounds.

Jackson Holte's debut solo album SKY BLUES contains a dozen songs drawn from a decade working as a professional mule packer in the backcountry of the Northern Rockies. It will be released this fall.

“Sky Blues is about my relationship with the country around here, my deep love for this place and its overwhelming influence on my identity,” Holte says. “Singing these songs feels good. They’ve got the breath of the land and space for me to move around in them.”

Jackson Holte played a studio session with Grady Kirkpatrick ahead of his show at the Duck in Laramie.

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Grady has taken a circuitous route from his hometown of Kansas City to Wyoming. Sometime after the London Bridge had fallen down, he moved to Arizona and attended Arizona State University and actually graduated from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. ("He's a Lumberjack and he's OK……..!") He began his radio career in Prescott in 1982 and eventually returned to Kansas City where he continued in radio through the summer of 1991. Public Radio and the Commonwealth of Kentucky beckoned him to the bluegrass state where he worked as Operations/Program Manager at WKMS in Murray and WNKU in Highland Heights just across the Ohio from Cincinnati.

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