Horse Legends

Michael Martin Murphey | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 8, 1997)
• Original Release Date: July 8, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002NFG
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #174,496 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tennessee Stud

2. Running Shadow

3. Ponies

4. Wildfire

5. The Running Blood

6. See How All the Horses Come Dancing

7. Palomino Days

8. Run for the Roses

9. The Pony Man

10. Quarter Horse Rider (America's Horse)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you love horses, this is for you, August 3, 2002

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Horse Legends (Audio CD)

Whatever reason you love horses for, there is something to interest you here. This is not a cowboy album, although it will no doubt appeal to lovers of cowboy music. Michael wrote several of the songs, but also covered some classic equine songs.

There are two songs about thoroughbred racing, Run for the roses (Dan Fogelberg's ode to the Kentucky Derby) and The running blood, a more general song. There is also a song about quarter horses (Quarter horse rider).

Ponies was first recorded by Michael Johnson in the eighties and was later lovingly covered by Lynn Anderson (an expert equestrian) on her Cowboy's sweetheart album, which also included Run for the roses.

Tennessee stud (featuring Johnny Cash) was originally a Jimmy Driftwood song, but has been recorded by (among others), the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band on their original Will the circle be unbroken album, recently re-mastered.

Wildfire is a re-recording of Michael's own hit. The original recording would have sounded out of place on this album, and the Amazon editorial noted it was a re-recording, so the earlier reviewer who complained has only himself to blame.

Each and every song is wonderful, and will give pleasure to horse lovers everywhere. There are plenty of other horse songs which could have been included - Stewball and Strawberry roan to name but two. I hope Michael does a second volume some day.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Horse Lovers Delight., December 22, 1998

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Joy Braswell ([e-mail]) (Buda, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Horse Legends (Audio CD)

I have never enjoyed another CD as much as I have this one. Others may put this recording down as just "cheap romanticism" and horses as "contrary and ornery" but it will strike a chord with horse owners and enthusiasts. There is a unique bond between humans and their equine partners that can't be explained away as sentimental, romantic drivel and this album was written and put together by a horseman for other horsemen and women.

I feel there is something for everyone on this recording. I particularly enjoyed The Running Blood and hearing my mare's bloodlines listed in Quarter Horse Rider gave me goose bumps. Running Shadow is not a fable. There was a steel dust stallion that became a legend of the plains. One Blackfoot tribe called him "Ponokamita" or vain elk-dog, others called him The Ghost Horse of the Plains, The Phantom, etc. and although many tried, no one was ever able to capture him. Many stories of the Old West mention this horse and the song is a fitting tribute to his legend.

I enjoyed this recording the first time I heard it nearly a year ago, and it's charm has not worn off, but then I don't see horses as onery and I get up every two hours to break ice on water troughs. Go figure.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Completely beautiful horse song CD, August 14, 2005

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Ruella Yates (Oklahoma City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Horse Legends (Audio 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.