“Rock & Roots or Roots & Roll, whatever you want to call it – we challenge you to find a description that fits other than good music you can count on when you thought maybe you just couldn’t count on music anymore!” That quote from Lilly Ruby, the Webmaster of www.jamesmccmurtry.com is one of the […]
This was the first time in five years that Drive-by Truckers have rolled into town, and fans responded with a sold out crowd. While they might have sold out anyway, having James McMurtry as an opening act couldn’t have hurt. Not having too much time to dawdle, McMurtry ripped through his songs like a machine. […]
by Jesse Hill “Just us kids hangin’ round today, watching our long hair turning gray,” James McMurtry announces on the title track to “Just Us Kids,” his ninth full-length album. It is a statement that carries throughout the ferocious, self-produced album full of patriotic, poetically penned portraits of the Americans in our gutters and blistering […]
