Hi-Line cowboy troubadour and author Ken Overcast recently released a new album and book. He’s promoting both at a fundraiser for the Teton County 4-H Club in Choteau at the Choteau High School auditorium on Friday, June 23. show time is 7 p.m. on Saturday June 24, Overcast performs in Billing at the Alberta Bair Theatre. Call 406-357-3824 for information.

     Overcast’s new album is titled Montana in My Soul, his eighth album release. Overcast penned seven of the 13 tracks. The album is a continuation of his seasoned perspective on cowboy life and history in Montana. A sampling of tracks includes a duet on the Bob Wills tune “Lilly Dale” with award-winning western vocalist Joni Harms; “Kid Curry,” about the Hi-Line’s most infamous outlaw; “Dancin’ and Dreamin’” a love song written for wife Dawn; and “The Bear Paw Song,” a resurrected tune written by rancher Millard Dumas nearly 100 years ago.

     Overcast’s new book, his second, is titled Shootin’ the Breeze, Cowboy Style. Like his first book, Yesterday’s Yarns, Real Tales From the Real West, the new book is a collection of humorous short stories compiled from Overcast’s syndicated column, Meadow Muffins. In a review of the book, Cowboy Magazine comments, “If you like laughin’ at cowboys, and I can’t think of anybody that doesn’t, you’ll love Shootin’ the Breeze.”