Blue Sky Night Thunder

Michael Martin Murphey, Michael Murphey | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 1, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
• ASIN: B0012GMYSW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,232 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Wildfire

2. Carolina in the Pines

3. Desert Rat

4. Wild Bird

5. Blue Sky Riding Song

6. Medicine Man

7. Secret Mountain Hideout

8. Without My Lady There

9. Night Thunder

10. Rings of Life

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My first experience, October 17, 2001

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Caryn J Stewart (Jacksonville, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Sky Night Thunder (Audio CD)

This album was my first experience listening to Michael Murphy (no "Martin" back then!). I fell in love with him and every single song on the album (no CD's back then, either!). Yes, "Wildfire" is wonderful and I played it at my wedding, but I love "Carolina In The Pines" and even "Desert Rat" has it's own special meaning. "Blue Sky Riding Song", "Medicine Man", "Night Thunder", "Wild Bird", "Secret Mountain Hideout" and let's not forget "Without My Lady There". I think all of the songs are great! Mr. Murphy was in concert here a few weeks ago and it was my first opportunity to see him perform live, it's nice to have someone like him perform in the smaller towns in the country. Thanks, Michael, we truly appreciate it. Michael "Martin" Murphy has always been a great singer/songwriter, please, keep up the good work for another thirty years or so!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Long Time Ago; On A Trip Far Far Away............, August 19, 2000

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Gary W. Gadouas (Swanton, Vt. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue Sky Night Thunder (Audio CD)

............I remember it was my first trip to the West. I lived in Vermont all my life and had always only read about or dreamed about the West. I was a lover of music with a wandering soul. I had recently purchased this album and transfered it to cassette to play in my car. Since I had several other "homemade" cassettes to play, I didn't slide this one into the player until I was somewhere beyond the Mississippi. After a complete listening, I began to realize that, when Michael Murphy wrote these songs, that he had to be thinking about the places that I was now seeing for my first time. Every song on this album conjures up an image for me of someplace I found on that trip, and on every other trip that I later took out West.

For anyone who has not toured "The West", when you do, have this album in your cassette or CD player. Then, somewhere down the road of your life, you'll hear one of these songs somewhere, and trust me here, you will feel the NEED to return to the West. It happened 2 more times for me, the last one being 1988. I'm due!!

Thanks Michael!

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good 70's Cowboy Pop Music, January 27, 2000

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Mark (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Sky Night Thunder (Audio CD)

I like this album as it has quite a few good songs from the 70's era. Considerably better than Murphey's "Swans Against The Sky" album of the same year, Murphey's best know song is here, the original, "Wildfire" and is one of the best songs of the last three decades. Other highlights are "Carolina In The Pines", "Blue Sky Riding Song", "Medicine Man" and "Night Thunder". But all the songs are very good and I highly recommend this album along with "What's Forever For" and many of his other 80's and 90's stuff.