DW  Groethe "Life is odd, but good." - DW Groethe Chairmaker's Rush Artist Recordings: There's A Place DW Groethe is a poet, picker and cowboy who writes what he lives and breathes. He has played music professionally for more than 30 years and has been writing poems since grade school. His songs of long, hard rides, late prairie nights and heartbreakin' cowgirls, tell the tale of a cowboy's life. His songs are true cowboy poetry set to music. He is a participant in the Library of Congress's Local Legacies project and has contributed poetry to the Library's collections. He has also been a featured poet and musician at many poetry gatherings including the "Dakota Cowboy Gathering" in Medora. DW knows what it's like to "work the range" and he comes by it honestly. His grandparents homesteaded in North Dakota in 1903 and his family still has the home quarter. But he's not all cowboy, his performer's blood has always kept him near the stage. He completed his Bachelors in Fine Arts degree in Directing at the University of North Dakota in 1980. DW says, "I worked a couple of seasons in professional theatre 'till I figured it was easier to starve as a musician." DW has owned a home in Bainville, Montana for the last 10 years, where he says, "I've been a sometime musician, sometime cowboy, fulltime whatever-it-takes-to-keep-the-wolves-from-the-door kinda guy."