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Michael Martin Murphey
Cowboy Songs (Warner)
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This is a classic-to-be, an effort that unites excellent production with heartfelt vocals and raises a narrow genre of music to the level of mainstream art. Combining exceptionally sensitive arrangements of such familiar oldies as ”Red River Valley” and ”I Ride an Old Paint,” such unfamiliar but stunningly vivid songs as ”Texas Rangers” and ”Tying Knots in the Devil`s Tail” and such newies as ”Cowboy Logic” and ”Where Do Cowboys Go When They Die (Reincarnation),” this 21-cut CD prompts belly laughs and lumps in the throat. It deserves to be heard a long way from the bunkhouse.
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