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 ...

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 ...

SANTA CRUZ — James McMurtry knows exactly when the time is right to make a new album: When the tours start winding down, that is when he gets into the studio. “That’s kind of what drives it nowadays,” ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Texas singer/songwriter James McMurtry will play the Charleston Pour House Sept. 23, featuring new ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X James McMurtry will continue his tradition of live-testing new tunes during his Jan. 30 show at ...

Austin’s James McMurtry writes songs with the richness of novels, his characters struggling through life’s trials in vignettes sculpted as vivid as the world in front of your eyes. Touring in support ...

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 ...

It's been a while since James McMurtry put out a record. It feels like he's overdue. It's not like he was affected by the Writers Guild of America strike (which seems to have been settled after five ...

McMurtry's breakthrough album, Just Us Kids, spent six weeks at #1 in Radio & Records and appeared on four charts in Billboard. In tonight's announcement of nominees for the 2008 Americana Honors & ...

James McMurtry got his hackles up. The singer-songwriter son of novelist Larry McMurtry would not be hounded by literary tradition. "Don't get off on the genetic trip," he said. "No one ever accused ...

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 ...