Sagebrush Symphony 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 nineteenth album. Recorded live with the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, this ambitious album, which presents cowboy songs and poems in a symphonic setting, contains a selection of Murphey's most popular songs, as well as traditional cowboy music. Murphey turns in "an impassioned performance" and the inclusion of guest artists Sons of the San Joaquin

Sons of the San Joaquin

The Sons of the San Joaquin is a Western family band. Jack and Joe Hannah are brothers, while third member Lon Hannah is Joe's son. They began performing together in 1987 at a birthday party for Lon's grandfather....

, Ric Orozco, Herb Jeffries, and Robert Mirabal "adds to the musical diversity and richness of the album."

Track listing

1. "Sounds of the Range" – Michael Martin Murphey
2. "Cowboy Overture" – San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Larry Cansler
3. "Cowboy Logic" – Michael Martin Murphey
4. "The Old Chisholm Trail" – Michael Martin Murphey
5. "Down in the Valley
   Down in the Valley (folk song)
   -External links:* -Bibliography:*Boas, Frank . The Journal of American Folk-Lore Vol. XXX No. CXVII. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: American Folk-Lore Society....
   
   " – Michael Martin Murphey
6. "Red River Valley
   Red River Valley (song)
   Red River Valley is a folk song and cowboy music standard of controversial origins that has gone by different names—e.g., "Cowboy Love Song", "Bright Sherman Valley", "Bright Laurel Valley", "In the Bright Mohawk Valley", and "Bright Little Valley"—depending on where it has been sung. ...
   
   " – Michael Martin Murphey
7. "Tumbling Tumbleweeds
   Tumbling Tumbleweeds
   "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" is a song composed by Bob Nolan, one of the founding members of the Sons of the Pioneers. Although one of the most famous songs associated with cowboys, the song was composed by Nolan back in the 1930s while he was working as a caddy and living in Los Angeles...
   
   " – Michael Martin Murphey, Sons of the San Joaquin
8. "Cool Water
   Cool Water
   "Cool Water" is a song written in 1936 by Bob Nolan. It is about a man and his mule, Dan, and a mirage in the desert.-Original version:The best-selling recorded version was done by Vaughn Monroe and The Sons of the Pioneers in 1948. The recording was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number...
   
   " – Michael Martin Murphey, Sons of the San Joaquin
9. "Timber Trail" – Michael Martin Murphey, Sons of the San Joaquin
10. "Back in the Saddle Again
    Back in the Saddle Again
    "Back in the Saddle Again" was the signature song of American cowboy entertainer Gene Autry. It was co-written by Autry with Ray Whitley and first released in 1939...
    
    " – Herb Jeffries, Michael Martin Murphey
11. "I'm a Happy Cowboy" – Michael Martin Murphey, Herb Jeffries
12. "Texas to a 'T'" – Herb Jeffries, Michael Martin Murphey
13. "Storm on the Prairie" – Michael Martin Murphey
14. "Riders in the Sky" – Michael Martin Murphey
15. "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...
    
    " – Michael Martin Murphey, Larry Cansler
16. "Wind Message" – Michael Martin Murphey, Robert Mirabal
17. "Geronimo's Cadillac" – Michael Martin Murphey
18. "Adobe Walls" – Michael Martin Murphey
19. "Yellow Rose of Texas" – Michael Martin Murphey
20. "San Antonio Rose" – Michael Martin Murphey, Rick Orozco
21. "Happy Trails
    Happy Trails (song)
    "Happy Trails," by Dale Evans Rogers, was the theme song for the 1940s and 1950s radio program and the 1950s television show starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Rogers, always sung over the end credits of the program. Happy Trails was released in 1952 as a 78 RPM and 45 RPM by Rogers and Evans with...
    
    " – Michael Martin Murphey

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, piano, harmonica, arranger
• Christopher Wilkins – conductor
• Larry Cansler – orchestral arrangements and composer of "Cowboy Overture"
• Bergen White – orchestral arrangements
• Jack Hannah – speaking parts
• Sons of the San Joaquin
  Sons of the San Joaquin
  The Sons of the San Joaquin is a Western family band. Jack and Joe Hannah are brothers, while third member Lon Hannah is Joe's son. They began performing together in 1987 at a birthday party for Lon's grandfather....
  
   – vocals
• Rick Orozco – vocals
• Herb Jeffries – vocals
• Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
• Chris Leuzinger – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
• Hank Singer – fiddle, mandolin
• Robert Mirabal – flute, percussion
• David Hoffner – keyboards, orchestral arrangements
• Dennis Burnside – piano, orchestral arrangements
• 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
• Craig Nelson – acoustic bass
• Tommy Wells – drums
• 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
• Dennis Wilson – background vocals
• Curtis Young – background vocals
• Jim Ed Norman – producer
• David Hewitt – engineer
• Tim Roberts – assistant engineer
• Sean McClintock – assistant engineer
• Robert Tassi – assistant engineer
• Phil Gitomer – assistant engineer
• Jon "JD" Dickson – digital editing
• Marc Frigo – mixing assistant
• Denny Purcell – mastering
• Danny Kee – production coordination
• Jade Novak – design
• Simon Levy – art direction
• Don Cobb – digital editing
• Eric Prestidge – digital editing, mastering, mixing, producer, engineer
• William Matthews – watercolor artwork
• Wyatt McSpadden – photography