Horse Legends

Infobox Album |
Name = Horse Legends
Type = Album
Artist =
Michael Martin Murphey


Released = July 8, 1997
Genre = Country, Cowboy Music
Label = Warner Bros.
Producer = Michael Martin Murphey
Jim Ed Norman
Joey Miskulin
Steve Gibson

Last album = "Sagebrush Symphony"
(1995)
This album = "Horse Legends"
(1997)
Next album = "Cowboy Songs Four"
(1998)

Horse Legends is Michael Martin Murphey's twentieth album. This is Murphey's tribute to the horse and contains a duet with Johnny Cash "Tennessee Stud," cover versions of Dan Fogelberg's "Run for the Roses" and Gordon Lightfoot's "The Pony Man," and beautiful re-recordings of Murphey's "Wildfire" and "The Running Blood." [ [http://www.michaelmartinmurphey.com/ Michael Martin Murphey Official website] ] [ [http://www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/artist/artist.cgi?ARTISTID=355670 Music Match Guide] ] [ [http://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=Michael+Martin+Murphey&x=12&y=21 Amazon.com] ]

Track listing

# Tennessee Stud (with Johnny Cash)
# Running Shadow
# Ponies
# Wildfire
# The Running Blood
# See How All the Horses Come Dancing
# Palomino Days
# Run for the Roses
# The Pony Man
# Quarter Horse Rider (America's Horse)

Credits

* Michael Martin Murphey — vocals, producer
* Johnny Cash — vocals
* Biff Watson — acoustic guitar
* Larry Byrom — acoustic guitar
* Brent Mason — electric guitar
* Steve Gibson — electric guitar, producer
* Chris Leuzinger — 12-string guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
* Mark Casstevens — 12-string guitar, acoustic guitar
* Sonny Garrish — steel guitar, dobro
* Mark Howard — banjo, acoustic guitar
* Hank Singer — fiddle, mandolin
* Matt Rollings — piano
* David Hoffner — piano, synthesizer
* Joey Miskulin — accordion, producer
* Michael Rhodes — electric bass
* Craig Nelson — acoustic bass, electric bass
* Mike Brignardello — bass
* Eddie Bayers — drums
* Tommy Wells — drums
* Jerry Kroon — drums
* Kenny Malone — percussion
* John Wesley Ryles — background vocals
* Lisa Silver — background vocals
* Harry Stinson — background vocals
* Gary Janney — background vocals
* Dan Keen — background vocals
* Curtis Young — background vocals
* Dennis Wilson — background vocals
* Jim Ed Norman — producer
* Bob Tassi — engineer
* Rich Schirmer — engineer
* Marshall Morgan — engineer, mixing
* Toby Seay — engineer, mixing assistant
* Scott "T-Bone" Stillman — assistant engineer
* Tim Roberts — assistant engineer
* Fred Mercer — assistant engineer
* Bob Wright — assistant engineer
* Jim Eaton — assistant engineer
* Denny Purcell — mastering
* Don Cobb — editing

References