Michael Martin Murphey ~ Similar Artists

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Merle Haggard - 100% match to Michael Martin Murphey

6 April 1937, Bakersfield, California, USA. "Like a razor's edge, Merle Haggard sings" is how John Stewart described his voice in "Eighteen Wheels", and that razor has been honed by his rough and rowdy ways. In the 30s Haggard's parents migrated from the Dustbowl to "the land of... Read more

Willie Nelson - 93% match to Michael Martin Murphey

Willie Hugh Nelson, 30 April 1933, Abbott, Texas, USA. Following their mother's desertion and the death of their father, Nelson and his sister Bobbie were raised by their grandparents. Bobbie was encouraged to play the piano and Willie the guitar. By the age of seven he was... Read more

Marty Robbins - 87% match to Michael Martin Murphey

Martin David Robinson 26 September 1925, near Glendale, Arizona, USA, d. 8 December 1982, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Robbins later maintained that his father hated him and that his early childhood was unhappy. Reports indicate that John Robinson (originally a Polish immigrant... Read more

Conway Twitty - 79% match to Michael Martin Murphey

Harold Lloyd Jenkins, 1 September 1933, Friars Point, Mississippi, USA, d. 5 June 1993, Springfield, Missouri, USA. His father, a riverboat pilot, named him after a silent-film comedian and gave him a guitar when he was five years old. The family moved to Helena, Arkansas, and... Read more

Don Williams - 79% match to Michael Martin Murphey

27 May 1939, Floydada, Texas, USA. Williams' father was a mechanic whose job took him to other regions and much of his childhood was spent in Corpus Christi, Texas. Williams' mother played guitar and he grew up listening to country music. He and Lofton Kline formed a... Read more

Jim Croce - 73% match to Michael Martin Murphey

10 January 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, d. 20 September 1973, Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA. Originally a university disc jockey, Croce played in various rock bands before moving to New York in 1967 where he performed in folk clubs. By 1969, he and his wife Ingrid (b.... Read more

John Mellencamp - 55% match to Michael Martin Murphey

7 October 1951, Seymour, Indiana, USA. Mellencamp survived an early phase as a glam-rocker to become one of America's most successful mainstream rock singers of the past three decades.Mellencamp played in local band Trash with guitarist Larry Crane, who... Read more

Ray Stevens - 54% match to Michael Martin Murphey

Harold Ray Ragsdale, 24 January 1939, Clarksdale, Georgia, USA. A prolific country-pop writer and performer, Stevens' novelty hits of the 70s and 80s illustrate the history of the fads and crazes of the era. He became a disc jockey on a local station at 15 and the following year... Read more

Charlie Rich - 52% match to Michael Martin Murphey

14 December 1932, Colt, Arkansas, USA, d. 25 July 1995, Hammond, Louisiana, USA. One of Rich's country hits was "Life Has Its Little Ups And Downs", and the ups and downs of his own life were dramatic. Rich's parents were cotton farmers and he heard the blues from the pickers... Read more