Lightning Rod Records will release James McMurtry – Live in Europe on October 13, 2009. The albim will document McMurtry’s first European tour, In early 2009 McMurtry and his band traveled overseas to play in Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, The Netherlands, Scotland and Belgium. Recordings from the Amsterdam, Netherlands and Geislingen, Germany concerts were combined [...]Related posts:James
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Personal opinion and mp3's to follow. You've been warned. God Damn and Mother Fuck the Republicans for politicizing this . How dare they. The hypocrisy is palpable, and I don't think the American public is so gullible as to fall for this brand of horse shit. Our memories may be short in this country, but I don't think we can forget "Heck of a job Brownie" that easil...
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Roots rocker James McMurtry will release his ninth album, Just Us Kids, on April 15th, 2008.For the follow-up to the 2006's Americana Music Awards winner for album and song of the year, Childish Things, McMurtry continues his loaded storytelling, this time attacking the Iraq war in "Cheney's Toy" on Just Us Kids. He also takes a stand against corporate profiteering by our nation's leaders who l...
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James McMurtry's never been shy with his opinions on politics and society, and playing his songs for a European audience one has to wonder whether his metaphors translate to a more universal sentiment or simply provide a peephole into [...]Original Story
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First of all, I HATE corporate country. Absolutely detest it. But I LOVE the fringes of country music. Alt-country like much of Cracker's stuff, blues-country like much of Delbert McClinton's stuff, soul-country like much of Lyle Lovett's stuff, rocking folk-country like John Hiatt. The lines are so blurred the categories are meaningless. And that's a good thing.James McMurtry sees frequent...
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One of my favorite and most insightful singer-songwriters, James McMurtry, says something funny to the crowd on his live album, Live in Aught-Three (and I'm paraphrasing here because I don't have it handy): "I used to think I was an artist. Come to find out, I'm a beer salesman."I used to just think that McMurtry was just being his usual droll, cynical self, but I'm realizing lately that he hit...
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And speaking of John Mellencamp... A decade and a half ago one of my friends, Steve, was working at SONY and he was all excited about a "new artist" they had signed named James McMurtry. He gave me the idea it was country and well... SONY's country division doesn't exactly come up with artists like Steve Earle. I didn't really pay attention. I'm kicking myself now. SONY's country division had ...
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Roots rocker James McMurtry will release his ninth album, Just Us Kids, on April 15th, 2008.For the follow-up to the 2006's Americana Music Awards winner for album and song of the year, Childish Things, McMurtry continues his loaded storytelling, this time attacking the Iraq war in "Cheney's Toy" on Just Us Kids. He also takes a stand against corporate profiteering by our nation's leaders who l...
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James McMurtry's little ditty on the land of plenty as we wonder what happened to the American Dream
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In fact I love the man and his music, but I love this new James McMurtry album too...an absolute gem.
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Alt.country singer James McMurtry plays the Paradiso in Amsterdam. No ticket? Watch the webcast on fabchannel.com .James McMurtry Webcast 2009/01/27 Starts: 20:00 local time (GMT 1)MP3: James McMurtry - The Governor» fabchannel.com/nl/james_mcmurtry_concert/2009-01-27 » jamesmcmurtry.com
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James McMurtry's never been shy with his opinions on politics and society, and playing his songs for a European audience one has to wonder whether his metaphors translate to a more universal sentiment or simply provide a peephole into [...]Original Story
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