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James McMurtry (born March 18, 1962, in Fort Worth, Texas) [1] is an American rock and folk rock/americana singer, songwriter, guitarist, bandleader, and occasional actor (Daisy Miller, Lonesome Dove, and narrator of Ghost Town: 24 Hours in Terlingua). He performs with veteran bandmates Daren Hess, Cornbread and Tim Holt.
James McMurtry " Choctaw Bingo " is a southern rock song written and performed by musician James McMurtry and appears on his album Saint Mary of the Woods and Live In Aught Three . The song is an up beat, honky-tonk narrative ballad, having no chorus, but only alternating verse and instrumental sections.
Just Us Kids is an album by singer-songwriter James McMurtry. It was nominated at the 2008 Americana Music Association for Album of the Year, Song of the Year ("Cheney's Toy") and earned McMurtry a nomination for Artist of the Year. [5] [6]
Award-winning James McMurtry says his songs, like his father Larry McMurtry's novels, are fiction. Listen to the songs April 2 at the Bluebird. On the road in a van, singer-songwriter James ...
McMurtry’s idiosyncratic career path may have left the pop-music audiences baffled or indifferent but his faithful followers, most of whom will be at The Moon when he visits for a concert on ...
[8] [9] [10] The songs were written in Archer City, Texas, and at Mellencamp's studio in Indiana. [11] McMurtry was backed by members of Mellencamp's band, as well as by David Grissom. [12] [13] The songs are not autobiographical. Many were written to rebut the tendency of popular country music to sentimentalize rural and small-town life. [14]
Candyland is the second album by the American musician James McMurtry, released in 1992. [1] [2] McMurtry supported the album by participating in the "In Their Own Words: A Bunch of Songwriters Sittin' Around Singing" tour, with Marshall Crenshaw, Don Dixon, Jules Shear, and David Halley.
According to Metacritic, The Horses and the Hounds has a score of 81 out of 100, indicating that it has received "universal acclaim" from music critics. [1] In Paste, Geoffrey Himes wrote that "on this record, McMurtry sings in the first person as if he were an old man phoning from Canada to an old friend who had briefly been a lover; as if he were a mentally unbalanced man who shoots his best ...