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 […]
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James McMurtry has a new album to promote, and Complicated Game is his first studio album since 2008’s, Just Us Kids. As could be expected, his 17-song show at 3rd and Lindsley featured several songs from the new album. Of course, McMurtry has […]
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 […]
It’s no real feat to sing about pickups to guys driving pickups, or about the pain of lost love to the lovelorn. The greats, however, document the human condition in contexts outside our own experiences and still we understand. James McMurtry […]
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 […]
Music tells a truer story of America than our politics does. Maybe it was happenstance. Maybe it was the surge line of a big trend. Either way, 2014 was the Year of the Woman for the more than 60 concerts […]
Curtis McMurtry has a famous father, whose father is even more famous. But it’s his mom who turned him on to “anything that wasn’t white dudes with guitars.” “That’s still great music to me,” clarifies McMurtry, himself a white dude with […]
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