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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: (Singing) I was thinking 'bout you crossing Southern Alberta canola fields on a July day, about the same chartreuse as that '69 Bug you used to travel around San Jose. MCMURTRY: ...

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 ...

If James McMurtry doesn’t make it to Pittsburgh for his show next week, he already has a sneaking suspicion where he’ll be. “Hopefully they’ll let us back in from Canada the night before because we ...

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,” ...