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Cowboy Songs III

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Released
  
October 12, 1993

Artist
  
Michael Martin Murphey

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

Length
  
73:30

Release date
  
12 October 1993

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Recorded
  
Nightingale Recording Studio The Reflections, Nashville, Tennessee

Cowboy Songs III (1993)
  
Sagebrush Symphony (1995)

Genres
  
Country music, Western music

Producers
  
Joey Miskulin, Michael Martin Murphey

Similar
  
Michael Martin Murphey albums, Country music albums

Cowboy Songs III – Rhymes of the Renegades is the eighteenth album by American singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey and his third album of cowboy songs. The album is devoted to cowboy folklore and true tales of the West and focuses on real-life outlaws, from Jesse James to Billy The Kid to Belle Starr. Murphey performs these songs "with a scholar's eye and a fan's heart."

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Big Iron" (with Marty Robbins) (Robbins) – 4:09
  2. "Rhymes of the Renegades" (Murphey) – 4:35
  3. "Riders in the Sky" (Jones) – 3:28
  4. "El Paso" (Robbins) – 4:52
  5. "Sonora's Death Row" (Farrell) – 4:30
  6. "Ballad of Billy the Kid" – 4:03
  7. "Billy Gray" (with Debbie Nims) (Blake) – 4:10
  8. "Roses and Thorns" (with Ryan Murphey) (Murphey) – 4:18
  9. "Strawberry Roan" (with Chris LeDoux) (Fletcher) – 3:44
  10. "The Wild West Is Gonna Get Wilder" (Murphey) – 4:28
  11. "The Ballad of Jesse James" – 4:18
  12. "Frank James' Farewell" (with Hal Ketchum) (Burr, Ketchum) – 3:41
  13. "Cole Younger" (with Hal Ketchum) (Traditional) – 3:57
  14. "Belle Star" (with Bill Miller) (Murphey) – 6:02
  15. "Queen of Heartaches" (Murphey, Rains) – 4:23
  16. "Sam Bass" (Traditional) – 4:51
  17. "Birmingham Jail" – 4:52

Credits

Music

  • Michael Martin Murphey – vocals, producer, liner notes
  • Marty Robbins – vocals
  • Debbie Nims – vocals
  • Hal Ketchum – vocals
  • Chris LeDoux – vocals
  • Bill Miller – vocals
  • Sam D. Bass – author
  • Pat Flynn – acoustic guitar
  • Chris Leuzinger – 6-string bass, 12-string guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass
  • Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar, harmonica, jaw harp
  • John McEuen – banjo
  • David Coe – mandolin
  • Sonny Garrish – dobro, steel guitar
  • Alisa Jones Wall – hammer dulcimer
  • Joey Miskulin – accordion, piano, producer
  • Dennis Burnside – piano, synthesizer
  • David Hoffner – synthesizer
  • Rob Hajacos – fiddle
  • Sam Bush – fiddle, mandolin
  • Stuart Duncan – fiddle, mandolin
  • George Tidwell – trumpet
  • Ryan Murphey – background vocals
  • Dennis Wilson – background vocals
  • Roy M. "Junior" Husky – acoustic and electric bass
  • Craig Nelson – acoustic and electric bass
  • Roy Huskey, Jr. – acoustic and electric bass
  • Lonnie Wilson – drums, percussion
  • Tommy Wells – drums, percussion
  • Sam Bacco – Percussion

    • Production

  • Toby Seay – engineer
  • Gary Paczosa – engineer
  • Ed Simonton – engineer, assistant engineer
  • John Kunz – assistant, assistant engineer
  • Marshall Morgan – mixing
  • Denny Purcell – mastering
  • Patricia Miskulin – production coordination
  • Laura LiPuma – art direction
  • William Matthews – cover design
  • Prof. Thomas Dimsdale – liner notes
  • Garrett Rittenberry – design
  • David Michael Kennedy – photography
  • Willie Matthews – paintings

    • Songs

    1Big Iron4:09
    2Rhymes of the Renegades4:35
    3Riders in the Sky3:29

    References

    Cowboy Songs III Wikipedia
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