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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James McMurtry's songs, like his dad's novels, are fiction. "They're not about me. They are about a character," he said recently.

James McMurtry spoke about the inspiration behind the title track from The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy in a press release. “The album title and that song comes from my stepmother, Faye,” he shared ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the course of 10 songs, McMurtry also explores this present moment in America. For example, “Sons of the Second Sons,” a slow ...

James McMurtry will continue his tradition of live-testing new tunes during his Jan. 30 show at the Pour House Credit: Provided Singer-songwriter James McMurtry takes the stage at the Pour House Jan.

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 ...

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 ...

James McMurtry is famously reticent in conversation, even with his closest friends, yet he is heralded by many as one of the most articulate songwriters of his generation. That’s a sentiment author ...