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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 twentieth album. This is Murphey's tribute to the horse and contains a duet with Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...

 "Tennessee Stud," cover versions of Dan Fogelberg
Dan Fogelberg
Daniel Grayling "Dan" Fogelberg was an American singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk, pop, rock, classical, jazz, and bluegrass music...

's "Run for the Roses" and Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s...

's "The Pony Man," and beautiful re-recordings of Murphey's "Wildfire" and "The Running Blood."

Track listing

  1. "Tennessee Stud" (with Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash
    John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...

    )
  2. "Running Shadow"
  3. "Ponies"
  4. "Wildfire
    Wildfire
    A wildfire is any uncontrolled fire in combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area. Other names such as brush fire, bushfire, forest fire, desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, squirrel fire, vegetation fire, veldfire, and wilkjjofire may be used to describe the same...

    "
  5. "The Running Blood"
  6. "See How All the Horses Come Dancing"
  7. "Palomino Days"
  8. "Run for the Roses"
  9. "The Pony Man"
  10. "Quarter Horse Rider (America's Horse)"

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, producer
  • Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash
    John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...

     – vocals
  • Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
  • Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar
  • Brent Mason
    Brent Mason
    Brent Mason is an American session guitarist and occasional songwriter. He is known primarily for his work in the field of country music. In addition to releasing two instrumental studio albums, he holds several credits as a songwriter...

     – electric guitar
  • Steve Gibson – electric guitar, producer
  • Chris Leuzinger – 12-string guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
  • Mark Casstevens – 12-string guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Sonny Garrish – steel guitar, dobro
  • Mark Howard – banjo, acoustic guitar
  • Hank Singer – fiddle, mandolin
  • Matt Rollings
    Matt Rollings
    Matt Rollings is an American composer, musician and record producer. He plays piano, organ, and keyboards.Known mainly for playing in Lyle Lovett's Large Band, he has worked with many artists, not all country...

     – piano
  • David Hoffner – piano, synthesizer
  • Joey Miskulin
    Joey Miskulin
    Joseph M. Miskulin is a hall of fame accordionist and producer of Grammy Award-winning music albums. In a music career spanning more than four decades, Joey Miskulin has collaborated with a range of artists including Paul McCartney, John Denver, Ricky Skaggs, Andy Williams, Ricky Van Shelton,...

     – accordion, producer
  • Michael Rhodes – electric bass
  • Craig Nelson – acoustic bass, electric bass
  • Mike Brignardello – bass
  • Eddie Bayers
    Eddie Bayers
    Eddie Bayers is an American session drummer who has played on 150 gold and platinum albums. He received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for eight straight years, and has three times won the Nashville Music Awards 'Drummer of the Year'...

     – drums
  • Tommy Wells – drums
  • Jerry Kroon – drums
  • Kenny Malone – percussion
  • John Wesley Ryles
    John Wesley Ryles
    John Wesley Ryles is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1968 with the single "Kay", a Top Ten hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, and the title track to his debut album for Columbia Records.Ryles later recorded one album, Reconsider Me, for the Plantation label,...

    – background vocals
  • Lisa Silver – background vocals
  • Harry Stinson – background vocals
  • Gary Janney – background vocals
  • Dan Keen – background vocals
  • Curtis Young – background vocals
  • Dennis Wilson – background vocals
  • Jim Ed Norman – producer
  • Bob Tassi – engineer
  • Rich Schirmer – engineer
  • Marshall Morgan – engineer, mixing
  • Toby Seay – engineer, mixing assistant
  • Scott "T-Bone" Stillman – assistant engineer
  • Tim Roberts – assistant engineer
  • Fred Mercer – assistant engineer
  • Bob Wright – assistant engineer
  • Jim Eaton – assistant engineer
  • Denny Purcell – mastering
  • Don Cobb – editing
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