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Cowboy Songs (Michael Martin Murphey album)

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Released
  
August 21, 1990

Producer
  
Steve Gibson

Release date
  
21 August 1990

Length
  
65:43

Artist
  
Michael Martin Murphey

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

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Recorded
  
Omni Sound Studio, Nashville, Tennessee

Cowboy Songs (1990)
  
Cowboy Christmas Cowboy Songs II (1991)

Genres
  
Country music, Western music

Similar
  
Michael Martin Murphey albums, Country music albums

Cowboy Songs is the sixteenth album by American singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey and his first album of cowboy songs. The album peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.

Contents

Track listings

  1. "Cowboy Logic" (Don Cook, Chick Rains) – 3:35
  2. "I Ride an Old Paint" / "Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along Little Doggies" (Traditional) – 3:01
  3. "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" (Nolan) – 2:20
  4. "Tying Knots in the Devil's Tail" – 3:06
  5. "The Old Chisholm Trail" – 4:46
  6. "Home on the Range" – 3:31
  7. "What Am I Doing Here" (Michael Martin Murphey, Cook, Raines) – 3:02
  8. "Wild Ripplin' Waters" – 1:47
  9. "The Yellow Rose of Texas" (Traditional) – 3:00
  10. "Spanish is the Loving Tongue" (Clark, Simon) – 5:40
  11. "Cowboy Pride" (Tyson) – 2:51
  12. "Red River Valley" – 3:30
  13. "Let the Cowboy Dance" (Murphey, Cook, Raines) – 3:01
  14. "Jack of Diamonds" – 1:13
  15. "Texas Rangers" – 3:21
  16. "When the Work's All Done This Fall" (Traditional) – 3:18
  17. "The Streets of Laredo" (Murphey, PD) – 4:06
  18. "O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie" – 3:02
  19. "Where Do Cowboys Go When They Die" / "Reincarnation" – 3:42
  20. "Goodbye Old Paint" – 2:13
  21. "Happy Trails" (Evans) – 2:16

Credits

Music

  • Michael Martin Murphey – vocals, guitar, producer, arranger
  • Tammy Wynette – background vocals
  • Steve Gibson – electric guitar, mandolin, background vocals, producer
  • Biff Watson – guitar
  • Mark Casstevens – guitar, harmonica
  • Paul Franklin – steel guitar
  • Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
  • John McEuen – banjo, mandolin, fiddle
  • Dennis Burnside – keyboards
  • David Hoffner – keyboards, hammer dulcimer
  • Mark O'Connor – fiddle
  • Terry McMillan – harmonica
  • Michael Rhodes – bass
  • Craig Nelson – electric bass
  • Eddie Bayers – drums
  • Jerry Kroon – drums
  • Don Edwards – background vocals
  • Jack Hannah – background vocals
  • Curtis Stone – background vocals
  • Cactus Moser – background vocals
  • Jack Daniels – background vocals
  • Suzy Bogguss – background vocals
  • Paulette Carlson – background vocals
  • Red Steagall – background vocals
  • Lon Hannah – background vocals
  • Dennis Wilson – background vocals
  • Curtis Young – background vocals

    • Production

  • Steve Gibson – producer
  • Rich Schirmer – recording, mixing,
  • Carry Summers – assistant
  • Steve Bishir – assistant
  • Denny Purcell – mastering
  • William Matthews – art direction, watercolor painting
  • Steve Whatley – design

    • Songs

    1Cowboy Logic3:35
    2I Ride an Old Paint / Little Doggies3:01
    3Tumbling Tumbleweeds2:21

    References

    Cowboy Songs (Michael Martin Murphey album) Wikipedia
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