Michael Murphey – Blue Sky-Night Thunder (CD)

Released in 1975, Blue Sky-Night Thunder captured Michael Murphey at the peak of his cosmic cowboy period, bridging the Texas progressive country movement with mainstream pop sensibility. The title track and "Wildfire" both charted that year, with "Wildfire" becoming one of the most distinctive story-songs of the decade. Murphey's roots in the Austin scene, alongside contemporaries like Jerry Jeff Walker and Willis Alan Ramsey, make this a genuine artifact of that fertile, freewheeling moment in American roots music.