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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Cowboy Logic

If you need a smile today, watch this Michael Martin Murphey video of his song "Cowboy Logic."



I've enjoyed Murphey's singing and his songs for many years. Here's some Wikipedia info on him:

Michael Martin Murphey (born March 14, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter. He is best known for writing and performing Western music as well as country and pop. Murphey has become a prominent musical voice for the Western horseman, rancher, and cowboy. A Western Music Association Hall of Fame inductee, Murphey has six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since the career of Marty Robbins. He has recorded the hit singles "Wildfire", "Carolina in the Pines", "What's Forever For", "A Long Line of Love", "What She Wants", "Don't Count the Rainy Days", and "Cowboy Logic". Murphey is also the author of New Mexico's state ballad, "The Land of Enchantment".
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Michael Murphey's first big break came through his friend Michael Nesmith, who had become part of the popular television musical group, The Monkees. Nesmith asked Murphey to write them a song for the next Monkees album, and Murphey composed "What Am I Doing Hangin' Round." The album Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones Ltd. sold over five million copies.[4]
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 May 1975, "Wildfire" reached No. 1 on the Radio and Records charts, No. 3 on Billboard's Pop Chart, and No. 1 on all Adult Contemporary Charts, giving Murphey a new level of commercial success and exposure. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in July 1975.
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In 1990, Murphey released the album Cowboy Songs — a project he'd been working on for several years. This was a pure labor of love, since no one had recorded an album of authentic cowboy songs in more than twenty years. The album contained Murphey's versions of old cowboy songs from the public domain such as "Tumbling Tumbleweeds", "The Old Chisholm Trail", the beautiful "Spanish is the Loving Tongue", the classic "The Streets of Laredo", and his tip of the hat to Roy Rogers, "Happy Trails". The album also contained Murphey's own "Cowboy Logic".
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Murphey played a major role in the resurrection of the cowboy song genre, recording and producing some of the most successful cowboy music of the past forty years. His album Cowboy Songs inspired a whole series of albums. For his accomplishments in the Western and Cowboy Music field, Murphey received five awards from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, formerly known as the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City.



4 comments:

  1. My all-time favorite Murphey tune is "Geronimo's Cadillac." Apropos of this, my blog-bud Lou knew Murphey and used to watch him play up in Red River, NM when she was young; partied with him, too! You and she are the only bloggers I know who have given him his props.

    And Hey! How 'bout them Preds?

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  2. Buck, Murphey rules. As for the Preds, I have to confess I haven't had time to check in on them lately, but your comment alerted me that I need to. I'll check out their webpage tonight and catch up on what's been going on.

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  3. Your Preds beat the Wings 3-2 a couple o' nights ago, Dan. In Dee-troit!

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  4. Once the video started, I clicked on it so it would link me to the source at You Tube for a full screen view. With over 10K hits, there was only ONE COMMENT!..so I had to add my two cents. Now there are two. It was 7 minutes well spent. Great tune, laughed out loud several times.

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