Cowboy Songs III

Cowboy Songs III
Studio album by Michael Martin Murphey
Released October 12, 1993
Recorded Nightingale Recording Studio
The Reflections,
Nashville, Tennessee
Genre Country, cowboy music
Length 73:30
Label Warner Bros. Records
Producer
  • Joey Miskulin
  • Michael Martin Murphey
Michael Martin Murphey chronology

Cowboy Christmas: Cowboy Songs II
(1991)		 Cowboy Songs III
(1993)		 Sagebrush Symphony
(1995)
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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."[2][3]

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[2][3]

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 McCall, Michael. "Cowboy Songs III". Allmusic. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Cowboy Songs III". Discogs. Retrieved May 24, 2012.

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