Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James McMurtry will release his first album in four years, 'The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy,' on June 20. - Credit: Mary ...

Bring on the new stuff. Audience members will get to hear the title track to Americana master James McMurtry’s upcoming new album, “The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy,” when he returns to The Moon ...

James McMurtry calls himself a working musician, a beer salesman. His songs suggest something stranger: a writer who hears ...

I’ll admit up front that I probably cannot write an unbiased review of a James McMurtry album. I think he is the best storyteller plying his craft in the USA today, and probably has been for the past ...

Droll singer James McMurtry is a complex man who turns out cutting, precise story songs yet will write himself off as a “beer salesman” because he prefers to play his music in establishments that have ...

James McMurtry's songs, like his dad's novels, are fiction. "They're not about me. They are about a character," he said recently. The younger McMurtry, a singer/songwriter, is the son of American ...

From the first note and phrase, Texas-based, Americana singer-songwriter James McMurtry captivates ears with his gravelly, baritone voice, soulfully rendered to deliver his precisely crafted lyrics in ...

"It was in 1976," he recalled. "My dad was doing some research for a screenplay. He said Montana at that time reminded him of Texas before World War II." James' dad was Larry McMurtry, the iconic ...

James McMurtry took the title of his 2002 song “Red Dress” quite literally while playing a string of shows in Tennessee last week. The songwriter — one of America’s greatest living ones, at that — ...

JAMES MCMURTRY: (Singing) I was thinking 'bout you crossing Southern Alberta canola fields on a July day, about the same chartreuse as that '69 Bug you used to travel around San Jose. MCMURTRY: ...

The famously political songwriter, James McMurtry, has been keeping a close eye on the troubled Trump administration from across the pond while touring overseas. "A few years back, I put out a song ...