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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]
The video for the tune includes shots of McMurtry driving a vintage Ford Falcon along Alligator Point, stopping in Carrabelle, and hopping a ride on a fishing boat in Apalachicola Bay.
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 ...
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Too Long in the Wasteland is the debut album by the American musician James McMurtry, released in 1989. [2] [3] Its first single was "Painted by Numbers". [4] The album's title was inspired in part by his father's Texas ranch, which is named the Wasteland. [5] The album peaked at No. 125 on the Billboard 200. [6]
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 ...