While I was working in early January, 2016 on the NumberOneMusic website uploading and promoting the complete Great Plains album I was asked by Marcos Kuusjarvi and his co-host Veli Eronen from the internationally renowned band Max and the Ducks originally from Finland but now relocated to sunny Costa del Sol in Spain that “Sitting Bull” and “Crazy Horse” would be highlighted on their Radio Finlandia show. The show filters through the airwaves to many of the countries in Europe and has a listening audience of around 80,000. Over the last few years both “Sitting Bull” and “Crazy Horse” have had extensive airplay although this new venture was exciting to say the least. On the day of the show I stayed up and enjoyed listening to a 1970’s trip down memory lane with some great tracks floating in and out during the two hour show. Halfway through the show Chris and I were mentioned and talked about for around five minutes and then both the lead songs from Great Plains were played back to back. As always it is nice to spread the word about two Lakota-Sioux Freedom Fighters who fought to save their peoples culture and way of life in the recent past of the taming of the American West. When both the new songs Coyote Man and Buffalo Medicine Horns were completed at the end of August as Chris, Adam and I celebrated the fifteen anniversary of the album they were again selected for back to back airplay with Radio Finlanda again on the Max and the Ducks Show. This time around it was magic to listen to our song Coyote Man that paid tribute to my dear friend and fellow artist Lakota Jack Little. As for Buffalo Medicine Horns it fitted the up tempo set of many of the shows excellent songs and Buffalo Medicine Horns never fails to deliver on a musical platform. Both new songs continue to educate and inspire music listeners and fans of Great Plains on Number1Music with healthy song plays and profile views. In only eight months Great Plains has had 74,203 Song Plays and 96,880 Profile Views. It does seem like the stories and music of the album have hit a nerve and that is always rewarding for Chris and I as working artists. Best wishes from Sydney Down Under to all the Influencers and Subscribers from Chris and myself who are enjoying our offerings that have now taken fifteen years to write and develop the musical arrangements first at Adam Barns Smoking and Jokin Studios in the Sydney suburb of Artarmon in 2001 and again recently at Nick Irving’s One Flight Up Studios at the Sydney suburb of St. Peters in 2016! Great Plains originally started out as one song (Sweet Medicine) and it has now become an extensive body of work with thirteen songs covering many of the stories that inspired me as I drove 200,000 miles across the Great Plains over a thirty-two year period. Earlier this year I received a e-mail from a young gentleman who lived in New York City. He informed me that when he walks the dark shadowy streets of Manhattan with its imposing skyscrapers looming overhead he enjoys nothing better than listening to Crazy Horse through his headphone set. As I started my personal journey of exploration in late 1981 I also walked those same streets in New York wondering what lay ahead as I was about to venture out onto the Great Plains for the very first time. And three weeks later while camping at the rim of the Grand Canyon I was handed the book Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglala’s by Nebraskan author Mari Sandoz by a Trek America driver. It was at that particular moment I knew the direction of my life’s path was to find out the true history of the Lakota-Sioux and Cheyenne Indian Wars History. I would like to thank Chris Fisher and Adam Barns for their amazing musical collaboration with Great Plains. It was truly a exciting time in all our lives. Andrew Hogarth. https://www.youtube.com/user/MrAndrewHogarth http://andrewhogarth.net/ https://www.facebook.com/tartanandy/