Michael Martin Murphey - Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

• 2009 Grammy Award Nomination for Best Bluegrass Album, for Buckaroo Blue Grass
• 2009 Texas Country Music Hall of Fame
• 2007 National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Wrangler Award for Best Song, for "Long and Lonesome Road to Dalhart"
• 2007 Texas Music Award for Best Song, for "Close the Land (America's Heartland)"
• 2007 Letter of Commendation from the President of the United States, for Murphey's involvement producing John Wayne's 100th Birthday Celebration
• 2004 Western Music Association Hall of Fame
• 2000 The New Mexico Distinguished Public Service Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1999 Academy of Western Artists Award for Best Album, for Cowboy Songs Four
• 1998 The Golden Smokey Award for Outstanding Service to the U.S. National Park Service
• 1997 Will Rogers Cowboy Philosopher Award, Will Rogers Memorial Commission
• 1982 Academy of Country Music Top New Male Vocalist
• 1972 Rolling Stone Magazine Best New Singer-Songwriter in the Nation, for the album Geronimo's Cadillac
• American Quarter Horse Association Lifetime Honorary Member
• CMA Award Nominations (three times)
• BMI Gold Record, for the song "Wildfire"
• BMI Gold Record, for the album Cowboy Songs, the first Gold album in Cowboy music since Marty Robbins
• King of the Cowboys Award for Outstanding Contribution to Western Family Entertainment by the Cody Order of Scouts, State of Nebraska
• Cody Order of Scouts, Nebraska
• Nebraska Country Music Hall of Fame
• Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame
• Western Heritage Awards from the Cowboy Hall of Fame (six-time winner)
• International Charley Russell Western Heritage Society Red Sash Award for Outstanding Service in Preservation of Western Heritage, 1999–2000