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The multiple Grammy nominee showcases his pleasantly timeworn tenor as he shuffles along “Under a Rolling Sky,” sweetly pays tribute to his longtime lady’s “Secret Smile” and likens the tempestuous nature of true love to a “Mountain Storm.” A Spanish-style acoustic guitar and mournful fiddle accent his convincingly melancholy delivery on “Faded Blues,” about a rejected “poor boy” suitor who loses the girl of his dreams to a “highbrow cat” in shiny boots and a new Stetson hat.  Murphey, who annually brings his Cowboy Christmas Ball to the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, nimbly swaps vocals with Pauline Reese while his son and co-producer Ryan Murphey plays a sprightly mandolin on “Shake It Off,” a bouncy bit of down-home encouragement for folks facing hard times. Hard times, good neighbors and prodigal sons are the universal themes covered with the forlorn Western story-song “Hardscrabble Creek.”
There’s a distinctly gospel flair to “The Gathering,” a beautifully somber tip of the cowboy hat to loved ones who have passed on before us.

Artist: Michael Martin Murphey

Album: Red River Drifter

Released: 2013

Style: Country




Tracklist:
01 – Peaceful Country
02 – Under A Rolling Sky
03 – Secret Smile
04 – Faded Blues
05 – Shake It Off
06 – Hardscrabble Creek
07 – Mountain Storm
08 – The Gathering
09 – New Old Love
10 – Unfinished Symphony