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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.
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]
Childish Things is a 2005 album by singer-songwriter James McMurtry (see 2005 in music).It was awarded the 2006 Americana Music Association Album of the Year Award. [2] The song "We Can't Make It Here" was named the best song of the 2000s decade by music critic Robert Christgau.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...