Over the course of 10 songs, McMurtry also explores this present moment in America. For example, “Sons of the Second Sons,” a slow burner that skewers not just Donald Trump’s authoritarianism but the ...

Though James McMurtry has been releasing albums consistently for three and a half decades, his tenth record, The Horses and the Hounds (2021), introduced the Texas musician to a new group of fans when ...

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 ...

Today (June 20), James McMurtry released his highly anticipated new album, The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy. As longtime fans have come to expect, the celebrated songwriter paints vivid pictures ...

James McMurtry took the stage at promptly ten o’clock, dressed in a loose white guayabera and a matching wide-brimmed fedora reminiscent of the one Bob Dylan wore during the Rolling Thunder Revue tour ...

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 ...

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 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 Horses and the Hounds,” the title track of James McMurtry’s latest album, revisits a familiar folk/blues theme — a man on the run. Think “Midnight Rider.” But McMurtry (with co-writer David ...

James McMurtry wants to make one thing clear: His songs are not about him. “Oh, no, there’s none of that,” the songwriter says, scoffing at the very notion. “I don’t do autobiography. My songs are ...