Cowboy Songs

by Michael Martin Murphey

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1990
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:06:31
  • Community rating: 4.08/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Murphey's collection of twenty one cowboy songs pairs standards such as 'Tumbling Tumbleweeds', 'The Streets of Laredo' and 'Happy Trails' with his original 'Cowboy Logic', written with Don Cook and Chick Rains. Produced by Steve Gibson, it became the first western album certified gold since the Marty Robbins era and reached number 25 on the country albums chart.

Genres

Descriptors: storytelling, acoustic, ballad, traditional, guitars

Tracklist

  1. Cowboy Logic (3:35)
  2. I Ride an Old Paint / Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along Little Doggies (3:01)
  3. Tumbling Tumbleweeds (2:20)
  4. Tying Knots in the Devil's Tail (3:06)
  5. The Old Chisholm Trail (4:46)
  6. Home on the Range (3:31)
  7. What Am I Doing Here (3:02)
  8. Wild Ripplin' Waters (1:47)
  9. The Yellow Rose of Texas (3:00)
  10. Spanish Is the Lovin' Tongue (5:40)
  11. Cowboy Pride (2:51)
  12. Red River Valley (3:30)
  13. Let the Cowboy Dance (3:01)
  14. Jack of Diamonds (1:13)
  15. Texas Rangers (3:21)
  16. When the Work's All Done This Fall (3:18)
  17. The Streets of Laredo (4:06)
  18. O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie (3:02)
  19. Where Do Cowboys Go When They Die / Reincarnation (3:42)
  20. Goodbye Old Paint (2:13)
  21. Happy Trails (2:16)

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