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Michael Martin Murphey

A note from Murph

Howdy, Friends! Welcome. These next few weeks, I hope to see you at Cowboy Christmas, and I hope you can take some time to be thankful for all you’ve got. I sure am. See you soon.

Murph

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Michael Martin Murphey's Cowboy Christmas poster. Music. Faith. Tradition. The Spirit of the West.

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The new album · 2026

New Blue Sky Night Thunder

Fifty years after Blue Sky – Night Thunder went gold, Murph went back into the studio and recorded the whole album again, with friends along for the ride, including Cody Johnson on “Wildfire.”

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Five decades on the trail

From “Wildfire” to today

Black and white portrait of a young Michael Martin Murphey in a cowboy hat — The 1970sAustin, and the songs that started it all

A young Michael Martin Murphey playing acoustic guitar on a wooden bench — Early daysA songwriter first, always

The ’80sCountry hit songs years

Michael Martin Murphey seated on stage with an acoustic guitar under warm red light — On stagePhoto: Eric Haugen

Michael Martin Murphey today, in a white wide-brim hat — TodayStill writing, still riding

Michael Martin Murphey wrote “Wildfire” and “Carolina in the Pines,” two of the best-loved songs of the 1970s, and helped shape the Austin music scene that changed country music. In the 1980s he topped the country charts with “What’s Forever For” and “A Long Line of Love.”

Then he turned toward the West itself. Cowboy Songs (1990) became the first gold cowboy album since Marty Robbins, and Murph has spent the years since keeping that music alive, from symphony halls to ranch-side stages.