"Ron Rogers’ songs and recordings mine a heady psychedelic swamp-rock groove grounded in his Texas roots and tempered by extended tenures in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. Think John Hiatt and Steve Earle – if they spent the Summer of Love in Haight Ashbury. His catalog is a treasure chest of undiscovered gems." 
Mike Shea, Executive-at-Large and Partner
South By Southwest Conferences and Music Festival 

Portuguese Cowboys, the fifth album by Ron Rogers, is the Fort Worth native’s keenest observation of this modern world’s inherent unfairness set to a tuneful gumbo of Americana roots, rock ‘n roll, and 1960s psychedelia. The title track and his songs of protest, love, and humor capture the rage, hopelessness, and isolation of a world gone wild that came to a head during the pandemic when live music came to a crashing halt. Unable to create music face-to-face, Ron wrote the song, "Portuguese Cowboys," at his current home in Porto, Portugal, and collaborated via digital file-sharing with special guest artists Donald Ray Fischer, Deborah Giles, and Emery Wilson – often in Los Angeles and Portland.  

An adventurous musical alchemist, Ron experiments with sounds and styles that span time and place, but remains ever-faithful to his twang-rock Texas roots.  

Portuguese Cowboys  is available for sale on Bandcamp.com.  

Ron’s musical course started as an underage teen soaking up rock, country, and R&B in Fort Worth dive bars and continued to Austin where he honed his songwriting skills in a succession of well-regarded live bands. He was the mastermind/songwriter of the pop/rock band Private Lives which opened for a who’s who of touring artists (The Fixx, Huey Lewis & the News, Flock of Seagulls, and more). Ron became a staff writer with Island Records/Blue Mountain Music. Billboard magazine tabbed Private Lives as "Best New Band of the Week" and "Best New Album of the Week" saying “This band is definitely a comer…” and the lead single “When the World Comes Crashing Through” garnered heavy regional airplay and a “Best Song of 1983” award from the Austin Chronicle.  

Post-Private Lives, Ron toured and performed with a Texas Musical Revue in Moscow, Kiev, and Leningrad/St. Petersburg – all part of the Soviet Union at that time – and jammed with infamous punk band Strange Games (Strannye Igry) in the basement of a Leningrad police station and Moscow’s famous rocker Stas Namin in his Gorky Park studio. 

The adventure continued in Los Angeles with his solo album release La La Land whose title song was selected by screenwriter/producer, Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge) as the opening theme for An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn. His film and TV work include composing the theme song and score for the indie film, Gate of Gold, as well as music of all styles for sit-coms and movies from the Carsey-Werner Company, Lifetime TV films, the SyFy Network and TV Land, as well as Japanese animation, commercials, and YouTube videos. 

In 2004 Ron moved to Portland, Oregon and upped the volume on his songwriting, live performances, and recorded output releasing three albums that laid the groundwork for his current musical style: 

La La Land (1998) "Drawing on Texas blues, R & B, country,  even a touch of swamp rock, Ron Rogers conjures a gritty, evocative sound for La La Land,  A clever and literate songwriter, he strikes paydirt with the title track , a vicious swipe at Hollywood.  -- Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide Editorial Staff

Country & Eastern (2004) and the accompanying video for “Alabama Chrome” were launched at Portland's legendary Aladdin Theater. 

Ron Rogers and the Wailing Wind (2013 Civil Defense Music) was hailed by the Portland Tribune as “some of the best Americana story-telling music that represents the hard life, injustice, the dark side, and tough living.” 

World Gone Wild (2019) featured Ron and the Wailing Wind and vocalist Deborah Giles from Private Lives in a grittier, bedrock roots sound with more than a hint of psychedelia in the mix.