The new Michael Martin Murphey album is a critical and commercial success. Released on July 9, 'Red River Drifter' has already landed in the Top 10 in Billboard magazine's bluegrass chart.

Michael Martin Murphey is getting ready to release a new set of tunes. The 'Wildfire' singer says his upcoming album, ' Red River Drifter,' will be a fusion of his favorite styles of music that ...

Murphey released his debut album in 1972. His best-known song, "Wildfire," went to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1975.

Michael Martin Murphey will appear in The Woodlands at The Dosey Doe (25911 I-45 North) Friday, March 13, at 8:30 pm. Tickets are $78 to $118. For information, call 281-367-3774 or visit http ...

Jun. 29—Michael Martin Murphey is looking forward to getting out of the Texas heat to perform his annual Red River residency in July and August. It's a practice he's done for years and enjoys ...

“My album is really about 1968 to 1974,” Murphey says. “I left Austin in 1974, only two years after Willie got there, and before everybody was calling themselves an outlaw.

Michael Murphey–Michael Martin Murphey, as he is known these days–has made a living making music since the `60s. It`s the only job he has ever held, and much of the time he has had it, he says ...

His Austin days were a prolific period as a songwriter, and in 1975 his fourth album, “Blue Sky — Night Thunder,” made Michael Martin Murphey a household name, thanks to the haunting ...