44 Years ago today, "Wildfire" hit #3 on the Billboard Top 100 songs in America. Michael Martin Murphey shared about writing his hit song on the Texas Heritage Songwriters' Association's series Honor Roll: "(For me), all songwriting comes from your dreams." (The following posted video has been edited around Murph's comments about "Wildfire." To hear the unedited video, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Lw9rBCUMA&t=6s ) Incidentally, a new version of the song — a duet with the wonderful Amy

Michael Martin Murphey Cowboy Christmas Ball Live Video 1990 Michael Martin Murphey Cowboy Christmas Ball Lyrics [Verse 1] Way out in West Texas where the Clearfork waters flow Where the cattle are a-browsing and them Spanish ponies grow Where the northers come a-whistling and the old dust devils roll And the prairie dogs are sneezing and freezing from the cold Where the lonesome tawny prairies melt into the airy streams And the double mountains slumber in the heavenly kind of dreams Where the a

Cowboy Songs is the sixteenth album by American singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey and his first album of cowboy songs Released August 21, 1990 Michael Martin Murphey (born March 14, 1945) singer-songwriter. A multiple Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since | Stone Cold Country