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Horse Legends
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0093624658429
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
MPN: 46584
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea
Release Date: July 08, 1997
Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
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Editorial Review:
The biggest hit of Michael Martin Murphey's career was his 1975 No. 3 single, "Wildfire," a musical fable about a pony who roamed the Nebraska plains after his owner died. With a cheap romanticism borrowed from Jonathan Livingston Seagull and an acoustic-pop arrangement borrowed from a hundred fellow James Taylor imitators, the song epitomized the sensitive soft-rock of the mid-'70s. The number has been re-recorded for Murphey's 1997 album, The Horse Legends, a collection of 10 songs about horses. Most of the other tracks reflect the same facile myth-making and easy-listening/folk that made Murphey a star more than two decades ago.
The singer wrote or cowrote six of the numbers, including tributes to a thoroughbred race horse ("The Running Blood"), a wild horse ("Running Shadow"), a palomino pony ("Palomino Days"), and a quarter horse ("Quarter Horse Rider"). He pays tribute to his fellow mid-'70s guitar strummers by singing Dan Fogelberg's "Run for the Roses" and Gordon Lightfoot's "The Pony Man," but somehow he managed to avoid doing Roger McGuinn's "Chestnut Mare." Little evidence of how ornery and contrary horses can be survives the golden gauze that seems to hang over these songs. The only number that seems firmly connected to the ground, in fact, is the duet between Murphey and Johnny Cash on the great Jimmie Driftwood song, "Tennessee Stud." --Geoffrey Himes
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Horse Lovers CD
If you have a love for horses, I bet your going to love this CD too. It has some great songs on it that give credit to horses and not to just a rider.
Rating: - A Great Western Album
I've never owned a horse and never lived on a ranch or farm. I don't even like country music. But I love Horse Legends by Michael Martin Murphey. The CD is musical, engaging, and listenable from beginning to end.
I started buying Murphey albums, and kept adding onto the collection. They do not disappoint. When I import the CDs into iTunes, I set a custom category on Murphey's stuff to "Western" not "Country". There is a dramatic difference. Murphey rings true like a classic western ... Read More
Rating:  - Not great, but no more unnecessary than needless re-do's by R&B divas or alt-rock bands of great songs from the '60's and 70's
Also, not as annoying as all that sampling of old songs stuck in hip-hip recordings and then passed off as original.
Amazon reviewer Geoffrey Himes needs to get laid or something. I hate cheap sentimentality and know it when I hear it. "Feelings", "Endless Love" or any other countless songs by Lionel Richie, or even Air Supply, now that is cheap sentimentality. And "Wildfire" is not a fable about a pony who roamed the Nebraska plains after his owner died.
"There have ... Read More
Rating: - Horse Legends Michael Martin Murphey
Notb exactly what I was attending, but always nice to listen to
Rating: - Completely beautiful horse song CD
This has become my favorite CD. I believe the Amazon critique is over-critical about the emotions expressed, as most horse lovers experience similar feelings. "Running Shadow" isn't about wild horses, as the review states; it's about Spirit Horses of Native American legends.
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