Cosmic Cowboy Souvenir

Cosmic Cowboy Souvenir
Cosmic Cowboy Souvenir
Studio album by Michael Martin Murphey
Released	1973
Recorded	Nashville, Tennessee
Genre	Progressive country
Length	40:39
Label	A&M
Producer	Bob Johnston
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Cosmic Cowboy Souvenir is the second album by American singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey.^[1] According to AllMusic, this album established Murphey as a progressive country musician.^[1] Murphey's impact on the genre was as such that one of the many names for the genre, "Cosmic Cowboy music", was taken from Murphy's "Cosmic Cowboy, Pt. 1", a song that appears on this album.^[2] The album peaked at number 196 on the Billboard 200.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e DeGagne, Mike. "Cosmic Cowboy Souvenir". Allmusic. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
^ Patterson, Rob (September 1, 2013). "Q&A: MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY". Lone Star Magazine. Retrieved 2023-07-24. And beyond all of Murphey's above achievements, there is also the role he played in launching the Austin progressive country scene in the 1970s. So pivotal a role, in fact, that the Capital City's first local musical movement to have substantial national impact even took its nickname, "Cosmic Cowboy music," from a Murphey song.

[allmusic-1] DeGagne, Mike. "Cosmic Cowboy Souvenir". Allmusic. Retrieved May 23, 2012.

[2] Patterson, Rob (September 1, 2013). "Q&A: MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY". Lone Star Magazine. Retrieved 2023-07-24. And beyond all of Murphey's above achievements, there is also the role he played in launching the Austin progressive country scene in the 1970s. So pivotal a role, in fact, that the Capital City's first local musical movement to have substantial national impact even took its nickname, "Cosmic Cowboy music," from a Murphey song.

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