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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook James McMurtry spoke about the inspiration behind the title track from The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting in the van and hitting the road to make money from music because records don’t sell? That’s nothing new for James McMurtry. “It’s been that way for us for a long time,” said McMurtry, who is ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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: ...