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 ...

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 ...

The singer/songwriter may not be familiar to everyone, but James McMurtry has rattled a lot of cages and made enemies - and fans - in the process. The son of novelist/screenwriter Larry McMurtry - who ...

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 ...

In James McMurtry's musical world, songs come from hurricanes, Waffle Houses, coal trains, new guitars. But they don't always come fast. Take McMurtry's "Ruby and Carlos," a sad song about bad-luck ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

James McMurtry’s “Choctaw Bingo” was never a single nor was it a major hit on the Billboard charts. However, much like the man who wrote it, the song didn’t need chart success or the radio to become ...

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 ...