Michael Martin Murphey (born March 14, 1945) is a writer and performer of American music. He is respected singer-songwriter in country music, Western music (North America), and popular music. Murphey has become a prominent musical voice for the Western horseman, rancher, and cowboy. A Western Music Association Hall of Fame inductee, Murphey has six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since the career of Marty Robbins. He has recorded the hit singles Wildfire, "Carolina in the Pines", "What's Forever For", "Long Line of Love", "What She Wants", "Don't Count the Rainy Days", and "Cowboy Logic". Murphey is also the author of New Mexico's state ballad, "The Land of Enchantment". Nowadays, he is recognized in parts of the continent as "America's singing cowboy poet".