photo by Dan Winters

McMurtry is performing the pre-show party 5:30-6:30pm, Sunday, January 29 - Austin, TX.

Cayamo Cruise 2012
Seven days of music, adventure, relaxation, and amazing moments await you on board the 5th Annual Cayamo!  This vibrant journey through song, where songwriters and their most passionate listeners are brought together on vacation, sets sail February 5-12, 2012 on the Norwegian Pearl from Miami to Cayo Levantado, St. Maarten and St. Barts. Featured artists include Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, Shawn Mullins, John Prine, Loudon Wainwright III, and James McMurtry. CLICK HERE for details.

Road Perspectives
Throughout the course of his extensive nationwide tour in 2011, James McMurtry snapped pictures of the world around him. CLICK HERE for photos. (All photos by James McMurtry via iPhone).

JAMES McMURTRY OFFERS FREE MP3 IN SUPPORT OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT
The singer-songwriter is giving away mp3s of his iconic political masterpiece "We Can't Make It Here" (from his award-winning Childish Things).  

Fans are encouraged to use the free mp3 of "We Can't Make It Here" to create videos supporting the Occupy movement.

Click here to download the free mp3.  

For the FIRST TIME in SEVEN YEARS, CLICK HERE to download the ACOUSTIC mp3.

(Radio: CLICK HERE to download the FCC-Friendly Radio Edit)

Send your stories and videos to mcmurtrysite@gmail.com, or post to the James McMurtry Facebook Page.  The best of the best will be featured HERE.

Message from James:
We quit playing "We Can't Make It Here" for a year or two.  We're playing it again because it seems to still be relevant, and that pretty much sucks for everybody but us. I know the song is still relevant because people are camped out along Wall Street and in front of City Halls around the country and around the globe, demanding a solution to the problems I tried to give light to when I put my song out seven years ago. They are mixed in age and economic status. Some are young and idealistic. Some are old enough to have had their ideals trampled upon a time or two.  My son goes to school in the New York area and some of his friends have been involved in the protests. One was detained for nine hours without charge. This is not supposed to happen in our supposedly civilized nation. These people are getting roughed up, but the press only seems to notice when a victim of police brutality happens to be an Iraq war veteran. I'm guessing there are a good many vets in the crowd and the poor fellow in Oakland won't be the only one hurt. I suppose the cops think the protesters are breaking the law.  Seems to me, the Bill of Rights guarantees the right to peaceful assembly. Meanwhile, the one percent, safely ensconced in the tall glass towers, does not have to break the law, because they get to write the law. I thought it was supposed to be the other way around, in a democracy. I think maybe my fourth grade teacher lied to me.

Let your voice be heard.

CLICK HERE to read McMurtry's latest blog about the Occupy Movement.

James McMurtry Appears in New Film: Wanda The Wonderful
The new Carolyn Macartney film, Wanda the Wonderful, is a documentary/narrative hybrid feature film about a 1920’s era Wild-West sharpshooter who struggles to escape from the mistakes of her past. (She had four husbands, but only shot one of them…) James McMurtry proves to be a major force in this film, narrating, acting, and performing throughout. CLICK HERE for details, behind-the-scenes pictures, more information about this highly anticipated release.

James McMurtry in Garden and Gun
"When I step off the twin-prop plane in Wichita Falls, Texas, and into the late-day heat of spring, wind blasting forty miles an hour, the first thing I hear, literally, is a loud and live rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” by what sounds like a marching band. Wichita Falls is home to Sheppard Air Force Base, one of the busiest airfields in the U.S. Air Force. The band is practicing, is all—it’s no special occasion—but then the Warthogs go screaming past, and James McMurtry drives up in his old Ranger pickup, his wild Jesus hair silhouetted by the westering sun, and I get it instantly. This isn’t just something he sings about—the heartland, rural values, hard choices, wars, politics—it’s his world, his milieu."

CLICK HERE to read more of this incredible Garden and Gun feature written by the great Rick Bass. For a custom playlist of some of McMurtry's favorite tunes, CLICK HERE.

James McMurtry's Longform Video Clips from Where'd You Hide The Body?
CLICK HERE for James McMurtry's Grammy Nominated Longform Music Video for Where'd You Hide The Body?

DAYTROTTER
CLICK HERE for James McMurtry's recent Daytrotter session.

Listen to James McMurtry on Spotify

Continental Club Residency
When he is not on the road, you can catch James McMurtry in Austin for his regular solo/acoustic show at the Continental Club Gallery every Tuesday. And the James McMurtry Band can be found each Wednesday performing their renowned regular midnight set at The Continental Club in Austin, Texas.

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