James McMurtry is happy to be returning to Spokane in the middle of the summer. The clever singer-songwriter recalls performing at the Bartlett in November 2016. “It was freezing,” McMurtry said. “I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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 continues to tour behind “The Horse and The Hounds,” which turns 2 in August. The venerable singer/songwriter isn’t in a rush to work on a new album. “The only reason I put out records ...

Local lovers of superlative songwriting have much to celebrate this June. The award-winning Texas troubadour James McMurtry is releasing his first album in four years, The Black Dog and the Wandering ...

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 ...

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 ...