Editor's note: This story has been updated to clarify Larry McMurtry wrote the script, but did not originate the story, for the movie starring John Mellencamp. James McMurtry's songs, like his dad's ...

AUSTIN, Texas — James McMurtry’s full-band Westbound and Down summer tour launched at Duling Hall in Jackson, Mississippi on June 14 and routes throughout the region before landing him at the Great ...

If you like well-played guitars, either acoustic or electric, you’ve got several good options this week. Thursday-Saturday, Tipitina’s Sunday, Tipitina’s Starting in 1978, the Radiators embarked on a ...

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 ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In 2004, McMurtry released the universally ...

"Up until I was about 9 years old, I didn't think about where songs came from. I thought about the singers, I didn't think about the creation of the songs." For an artist like James McMurtry, it's ...

PARADISE — James McMurtry returns to the north state for an intimate showcase Tuesday at the Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road. The Texan rock/Americana singer/songwriter will bring ...

Texas singer/songwriter James McMurtry imparts a high degree of literary insight to (perhaps inadvertently) parallel his famous dad, novelist Larry McMurtry. In any event, the vocalist’s penchant for ...

Singer-songwriter James McMurtry got a vivid lesson in the difference between West and East Germans during a 2009 tour of Europe. McMurtry played shows in both parts of the once-divided country during ...

Adam Carroll is far from a household name. Even in his native Texas, he may not carry the recognition of Lone Star singer-songwriters James McMurtry or Hayes Carll. But it speaks volumes to his talent ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In James McMurtry's new effort, The Horses and the Hounds, the acclaimed ...