Cowboy Songs III - Rhymes of the Renegades

Infobox Album |
Name = Cowboy Songs III - Rhymes of the Renegades
Type = Album
Artist =
Michael Martin Murphey


Released = October 12, 1993
Genre = Country, Cowboy Music
Label = Warner Bros.
Producer = Joey Miskulin
Michael Martin Murphey

Last album = ""
(1991)
This album = "Cowboy Songs III - Rhymes of the Renegades"
(1993)
Next album = "Sagebrush Symphony"
(1995)

Cowboy Songs III - Rhymes of the Renegades is Michael Martin Murphey's eighteenth album. This is Murphey's third album of cowboy songs, which 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." [McCall, Michael. "All Music Guide".] [ [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

# Big Iron (with Marty Robbins)
# Rhymes of the Renegades
# Riders in the Sky
# El Paso
# Sonora's Death Row
# Ballad of Billy the Kid
# Billy Gray (with Debbie Nims)
# Roses and Thorns (with Ryan Murphey)
# Strawberry Roan (with Chris LeDoux)
# The Wild West Is Gonna Get Wilder
# The Ballad of Jesse James
# Frank James' Farewell (with Hal Ketchum)
# Cole Younger (with Hal Ketchum)
# Belle Star (with Bill Miller)
# Queen of Heartaches
# Sam Bass
# Birmingham Jail

Credits

* 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
* 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

References