Local lovers of superlative songwriting have much to celebrate this June. The award-winning Texas troubadour James McMurtry is releasing his first album in four years, The Black Dog and the Wandering ...

James McMurtry released his 11th studio album on June 20. The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy is a collection of songs that continues to cement the reality that McMurtry is, without a doubt, one of ...

Though James McMurtry has been releasing albums consistently for three and a half decades, his tenth record, The Horses and the Hounds (2021), introduced the Texas musician to a new group of fans when ...

Talking about his forthcoming album, his first in four years, James McMurtry is as no-nonsense as his songs. "It happened like all my records happened," he said in a statement. "It'd been too long ...

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In James McMurtry's musical world, songs come from hurricanes, Waffle Houses, coal trains, new guitars. But they don't always come fast. Take McMurtry's "Ruby and Carlos," a sad song about bad-luck ...

From the my-how-time-flies category: James McMurtry, who plays a solo show at McGonigel’s Mucky Duck Saturday, marks a quarter-century as a professional musician this year. He began his career in the ...

I can’t say talking to James McMurtry is like wrestling a bear because I’ve never wrestled a bear. But years ago — pushed less by admirable carpentry skills than by a lack of funds — I hung a solid ...

Give credit to the songwriters who can look beyond obvious song topics and find inspiration in surprising places. For James McMurtry, one of the best songwriters of this era, even a traffic jam can ...