High Stakes: Cowboy Songs VII

High Stakes: Cowboy Songs VII

On his 2016 album, High Stakes: Cowboy Songs VII, iconic western artist Michael Martin Murphey pleads on the stunningly beautiful Australian cowboy song, "Campfire On The Road" "We must never let 'em take this life away/Old stock routes belong to one and all/Drovers, dreamers all agree/Poets, Aborigines/We have a right to light a campfire on the road." The lyric underscores the dramatic tone of Murphey's return to his Texas-cowboy roots at a time when we are facing the rapid deterioration of our crowded world's most precious resources : Land and Water. Over the past 40 years, Murphey has left an indelible mark on the American music landscape. Murphey returns to his singing cowboy roots on High Stakes to tell riveting human stories of love and hate, sin and redemption, loss and risk, failure and victory, revenge and forgiveness and family legacy.