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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]
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 ...
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.
[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]
James McMurtry's song “Forgotten Coast” is all about North Florida’s peculiar hideaways. McMurtry plays The Moon on Feb. 15, 2024. ...
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.
Oct. 20—James McMurtry laughed when reminiscing about his first appearance in Spokane during the 1990s. "It was zero degrees and women were bare legged with high heels," McMurtry said while ...