In 1972, Johnston produced Murphey's first album Geronimo's Cadillac in Nashville, Tennessee.

Despite the impressive critical and commercial success he achieved throughout the 1980s, Michael Martin Murphey's creative heart and spirit began to focus on the Western music that first captured his imagination as a boy growing up in Texas.

The Murphey family have residences in Colorado and Wisconsin, as well as a private fishing lake in Linden, Texas, not far from where Michael Martin Murphey's pioneer ancestors came to Texas in 1858.

Molly Carpenter, writing in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, noted, " Murphey's love for the American West clearly comes through in his songs, painted with vivid images of the rugged mountains and vast deserts of southwest landscapes, all evidence of his travels from his native Texas to California's Mojave Desert, Colorado's Rockies and the wild diversity of New Mexico, his home for the past 10 years.

But Michael Murphey's musical vision was expanding beyond the confines of the outlaw country sound and moving toward a much more ambitious musical tapestry.

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* Black Bart is one of the many outlaws mentioned in Michael Martin Murphey's song " Rhymes of the Renegades.

The album includes two new songs, " Close to the Land ", the theme song of the PBS documentary television series America's Heartland, and " Lone Cowboy ", a song that reflects Murphey's experiences as a solo artist performing throughout the West at music festivals, cowboy gatherings, historical theaters, and trail rides.

** 2006, " Symposium on M. G. Murphey's C. I. Lewis: The Last Great Pragmatist ," Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society 42: 1-77.

The sound of the album reflects Murphey's love of country, folk, and blues music.

Murphey's early gospel influences are also evident throughout the album.

Throughout this period, Murphey's band included Bob Livingston and Gary P. Nunn, the author of " London Homesick Blues ".

Murphey's friends, John Denver, Willie Nelson, Charlie Daniels, and Steve Weisberg appeared on the album.

These western shows, and the songs he was writing and recording at the time, presaged a major change in Murphey's career — a change that would lead the artist down the unlikely trail of Cowboy music.

" An accompanying video was later released of one of Murphey's Cowboy Christmas Ball concerts, which included many of these songs.

That year, he released Cowboy Songs Four, which contained both traditional and original cowboy songs, including " Utah Carroll ," " Little Joe, the Wrangler ," and Murphey's " Song from Lonesome Dove.

" In 1999, he released Acoustic Christmas Carols: Cowboy Christmas II, which included Murphey's quiet renditions of traditional Christmas songs, and featured his son Ryan and daughter Laura.

One of Murphey's Cowboy Christmas Ball concerts, recorded in Oklahoma City, was included as a fourth DVD in the combination CD / DVD set.

Murphey's love of Bluegrass music dates back to when he sang lead vocals with the Earl Scruggs Band.

Over the years, Murphey's songs have been recorded by Bluegrass artists such as Flatt and Scruggs, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, the Country Gentlemen, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

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