In February of 1975, Michael Martin Murphey released "Wildfire" as a single. Written by Murphey and Larry Cansler, the song came to Murphey in a dream and was, after a bit of back and forth ...

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Earlier this week we published an extensive interview with Michael Martin Murphey , whose annual "Cowboy Christmas" show pulls into the Paramount Theatere tonight (Friday, December 21). We talked ...

Michael Martin Murphey knows a good thing when he hears one. Last year's Buckaroo Blue Grass, an innovative melding of cowboy songs and bluegrass, won raves and a Grammy nomination. This follow-up ...

Fifty years ago, Michael Martin Murphey, son of Oak Cliff, recorded "Wildfire," the biggest cowboy song ever to come out of Dallas.

He made his name and his fortune on a song about a horse. And to this day, Michael Martin Murphey is still fond of “Wildfire.” But he’s more likely to be singing cowboy songs around the ...

So begins the vivid tale told in "Wildfire," the 1975 hit Michael Martin Murphey recorded and co-wrote with Larry Cansley. Murphey took inspiration from a ghost story his grandfather told him.