Heartland Cowboy: Cowboy Songs, Vol. 5

Heartland Cowboy
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 31, 2006 (2006-10-31)
RecordedBlazing Saddles Studios,
Nashville, Tennessee
GenreCountry, cowboy music
Length45:15
LabelMichael Martin Murphey
ProducerBobby Blazier
Jeremy Hunter
Ryan Murphey
Michael Martin Murphey chronology
Live at Billy Bob's Texas
(2004)
Heartland Cowboy
(2006)
Buckaroo Blue Grass
(2009)

Heartland Cowboy: Cowboy Songs, Vol. 5 is the twenty-seventh album by American singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey, his fifth album of cowboy songs. The album includes the hit song "Long and Lonesome Ride to Dalhart", which won the 2006 Wrangler Award for Outstanding Original Western Composition. The album was inspired by Murphey's life on his ranch and his real experiences working as an activist and artist in American Ranching and Farming.