Cowboy Songs (Michael Martin Murphey album)

Cowboy Songs
Studio album by Michael Martin Murphey
Released	August 21, 1990
Genre	Country, Cowboy Music
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Steve Gibson
Michael Martin Murphey chronology
Land of Enchantment (1989) Cowboy Songs (1990) Cowboy Christmas: Cowboy Songs II (1991)

Cowboy Songs is Michael Martin Murphey's sixteenth album. This is Murphey's first album of cowboy music and is considered one of the better modern collections.^[1][2][3]

Track listings

1. "Cowboy Logic
2. "I Ride an Old Paint/Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along Little Doggies"
3. "Tumbling Tumbleweeds"
4. "Tying Knots in the Devil's Tail"
5. "The Old Chisholm Trail"
6. "Home on the Range"
7. "What Am I Doing Here"
8. "Wild Ripplin' Waters"
9. "The Yellow Rose of Texas"
10. "Spanish is the Loving Tongue"
11. "Cowboy Pride"
12. "Red River Valley"
13. "Let the Cowboy Dance"
14. "Jack of Diamonds"
15. "Texas Rangers"
16. "When the Work's All Done This Fall"
17. "The Streets of Laredo"
18. "O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie"
19. "Where Do Cowboys Go When They Die/Reincarnation"
20. "Goodbye Old Paint"
21. "Happy Trails"

Credits

• Michael Martin Murphey – vocals, guitar
• 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

Chart performance

Chart (1990)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	25

References

1. ^ Michael Martin Murphey Official website
2. ^ Music Match Guide
3. ^ Amazon.com