Album Review of
High Stakes: Cowboy Songs VII

Written by Duane Verh
April 30, 2016 - 12:00am EDT
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Michael Martin Murphey’s career-wide cowboy crusade is energized anew with these celebrations of hard working family folk, not un-charming rustlers and rebels, and, most of all, the traditional culture of the American West. The rousing title track- which should quickly find its way to the airwaves- is counterbalanced with the heart-tugging ballad “The Drover Road to Amulhee” and the warm-hearted “Three Sons”.  Things get good and rousing again with a cover of Roger Creager’s “I’ve Got The Guns”.