Heartland Cowboy: Cowboy Songs, Vol. 5 is Michael Martin Murphey

Michael Martin Murphey

Michael Martin Murphey is an American singer-songwriter best known for writing and performing Western music, Country music, and Popular music. A multiple Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Gunfighter...

's twenty-seventh album. This is Murphey's fifth album of cowboy songs and includes the hit song "Long and Lonesome Ride to Dalhart," which won the 2006 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Original Western Composition. The album was inspired by Murphey's life on his ranch and his real experiences working as an activist and artist in American Ranching and Farming.

Track listing

1. "Free Rein (Jessica's Song)"
2. "Close to the Land"
3. "Wheel Comes Around (Morgan's Song)"
4. "Dry Lightning"
5. "Out of Line (Karen's Song)"
6. "Long and Lonesome Ride to Dalhart"
7. "Storm Over the Rangeland (The Ballad of Kit Laney)"
8. "Ride out the Storm"
9. "Bluebonnets"
10. "My Country Under God (Sarah's Song)"
11. "America's Heartland" (Reprise) / "Simple Gifts"

Credits

• Michael Martin Murphey
  Michael Martin Murphey
  Michael Martin Murphey is an American singer-songwriter best known for writing and performing Western music, Country music, and Popular music. A multiple Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Gunfighter...
  
   – vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo
• Pat Flynn – mando-guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar
• Ryan Murphey
  Ryan Murphey
  Ryan Murphey is a Grammy-nominated music producer, songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist. Since 1988, Ryan has toured with his father, Michael Martin Murphey, as lead guitarist and vocalist in the Rio Grande Band. Ryan is Michael's oldest son, and has worked with his father extensively throughout...
  
   – slide guitar, acoustic guitar
• Chris Leuzinger – electric guitar
• Tim Laure – keyboards, Hammond organ, piano
• Jim Hoke – accordion
• David Davidson – fiddle
• Larry Franklin – fiddle
• Laura Wood – violin
• Ian Davidson – English horn
• Bobby Blazier – drums, percussion
• Ron Hemby – background vocals
• Sonya Isaacs
  Sonya Isaacs
  Sonya Melissa Isaacs is an American country and Christian music singer. Isaacs grew up near Morrow, Ohio, and graduated from Little Miami High School in 1992....
  
  – background vocals
• Kristen Wilkenson – orchestral arrangements