Some of my favorite childhood memories are the times my grandfather would take me to Jacks[1] to have breakfast with him and his buddies, and it wasn’t just because he let me pick whatever I wanted off the menu. No, […]
Some of my favorite childhood memories are the times my grandfather would take me to Jacks[1] to have breakfast with him and his buddies, and it wasn’t just because he let me pick whatever I wanted off the menu. No, […]
James McMurtry’s first CD of new material since 2007, “Complicated Game” reveals much more of the man inside the great songwriter than just his dusty boots. James McMurtry is back and attention must be paid. He should be playing larger […]
It’s been seven years since singer-songwriter James McMurtry offered up an album of new material. His last release, 2009’s Live in Europe, recontextualized McMurtry’s societal observations in front of a European audience, and though the songs took on new shades […]
On his album Live in Aught-Three, James McMurtry introduces “Max’s Theorem” with a quote from the Communist-leaning gentleman in small-town Texas for whom the song is named: “A good old boy can become an intellectual, but an intellectual cannot become […]
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