"The simple fact is that James McMurtry may be
the truest, fiercest songwriter of his generation..."

Stephen King | Entertainment Weekly
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award winning
Childish Things

2005

9/6/05

Compadre Records

also through amazon.com

Live in Aught-Three

2004

Reviews:
About.com concise and precise review
Austin Chronicle
Jambands.com
sharkbitten.com

Compadre Records
online store

milesofmusic

Live in Aught-Three

1. Saint Mary of the Woods
2. Fraulein O.
3. Red Dress
4. No More Buffalo
5. 60 Acres
6. Rachel's Song
7. Out Here in the Middle
8. Choctaw Bingo
9. Lights of Cheyenne
10. Levelland
11. Max's Theorem
12. I'm Not From Here
13. Too Long in the Wasteland
14. Rex's Blues

SAINT MARY of the WOODS

2002
Sugar Hill Records

Review
Review: rockzilla.net
Review: musicbox on-line
River Front Times
This one says it all.

Available at:
Sugar Hill Records *
milesofmusic.com
Amazon.com*

details from
Sugar Hill Records

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SAINT MARY of the WOODS
song samples on amazon.com

1. Dry River
2. Valley Road
3. Saint Mary Of The Woods
4. Out Here In The Middle
5. Lobo Town
6. Broken Bed
7. Red Dress
8. Gulf Road
9. Gone To The Y
10. Choctaw Bingo

SAINT MARY of the WOODS
promo

2002
Sugar Hill Records

Available at:
ebay.com
lastvestige.com
gemm.com

TEXAS TRIO:
Three Singles
From Sugar Hill

2002
Sugar Hill Records

TEXAS TRIO:
Three Singles From Sugar Hill

1. Guy Clarke: Arizona Star
2. James McMurtry: ValleyRoad
3. The Gourds:Hellhounds

Walk Between the Raindrops

1998
Sugar Hill Records

Review

Walk Between the Raindrops

1. Walk Between the Raindrops
2. Every Little Bit Counts
3. Soda and Salt
4. Fast as I Can
5. Tired of Walking
6. Airline Agent
7. Racing to the Red Light
8. Comfortable
9. I Only Want to Talk to You
10. Rex's Blue's

it had to happen

1997
Sugar Hill Records

Review

It Had to Happen

1. Paris
2. Peter Pan
3. For All I Know
4. No More Buffalo
5. 12 O'Clock Whistle
6. Sixty Acres
7. Be With Me
8. Wild Man From Borneo
9. Stancliff's Lament
10. Jaws Of Life Ý

For All I Know
Sixty Acres
CD single 2 track

1997
Sugar Hill Records

For All I Know
CD single

1997
Sugar Hill Records

Where'd You Hide
the Body

1995
Columbia

Review

Where'd You Hide the Body

Levelland, a promo for Where'd You Hide
the Body

1995
Columbia

1995
Columbia

Available at:
vintage record websites
ebay.com
lastvestige.com
gemm.com

very tough
to find!

includes videos of all
songs from the album

Candyland

1992
Columbia

Review

Candyland

1. Where's Johnny
2. Vague Directions
3. Hands Like Rain
4. Safe Side
5. Candyland
6. Don't Waste Away
7. Good Life
8. Save Yourself
9. Store Keeper
10. Dusty Pages

Where's Johnny
CD single

1992
Columbia

Candyland
CD single

1992
Columbia

Candyland
promo on cassette

1992
Columbia

Too Long in the Wasteland

1989 Columbia

Review

Too Long in the Wasteland

1. Painting By Numbers
2. Terry
3. Shining Eyes
4. Outskirts
5. Song For A Deck Hand's Daughter
6. I'm Not From Here
7. Too Long In The Wasteland
8. Crazy Wind
9. Poor Lost Soul
10. Angeline
11. Talkin' At The Texaco

1989 Columbia

Interchords
promo for Too Long in the Wasteland
vinyl

All promos

Available at:
vintage record websites
ebay.com
lastvestige.com
gemm.com

Consists of titles from the album with
a narration by McMurtry before each.

Too Long in the Wasteland
CD promo with enclosed booklet

same song list as album

A Case for Case: A Tribute to the Songs of Peter Case
James covers Peter Case's "The Old Part of Town"

This Is Americana: Vol One: A View From Sugar Hill Records
Various. James McMurty's "Out Here in the Middle"

Mother, Queen Of My Heart: A Collection Of Songs Inspired By Mom
Various. James McMurty's "Peter Pan"

No Song, No Supper - Mississippi novelist Larry Brown's picked some of his favorites from the Sugar Hill catalogue on No Song, No Supper, and as a writer who has "struggled for years to learn how to write fiction that would buy some groceries," he's developed a keen appreciation of the storyteller's art. These 14 cuts run the gamut of the Sugar Hill experience, from James McMurty's "Fast as I Can," The Gourds' "Ants on the Melon," to Robert Earl Keen's "I'll Go on Downtown."

From Hell To Breakfast: A Taste of Sugar Hill's
Texas Singer- Songwriters - "Jaws of Life"
 sound sample available at above Sugar Hill link
 Tracks also include Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Robert Earl Keen,
 Rodney Crowell, The Gourds, The Bad Livers and Terry Allen.

 Click Here for sound samples and availability of the Sugar Hill Records
compilations listed above

Below are older, more difficult to find recordings:

Fathers & Sons [Chaos] : Performer

 Falling from Grace: one of the Buzzin' Cousins

 Buzzin' Cousins promo CD Sweet Suzanne

   
Columbia Records Radio Hour, Vol. 1 : Performer
Best of Columbia Records Radio Hour, Volume 1 (1994)
"Too Long in the Wasteland"
"Safe Side" (with Jules Shear-backing vocal, shaker) (both Oct 25,
1992)

 
Hitchhiker Exampler, Release date: 03.13.90 Label: Columbia

 In Their Own Words, Vol. 2 : Guitar

Cities' Sampler: Essentials; Performer

American Songbook - VIVA AMERICANA - 17 new and exclusive recordings
on one CD, accompanied by a 120-page full-colour book.
James McMurtry - Vague Directions. Specially recorded acoustic cut


KBCO The Best of Studio C, Volume 2 (1993)
"Candyland" (James McMurtry & Friends) (Oct 31, 1991)

KMTT On the Mountain, Volume 1 (1994)
"Too Long in the Wasteland" (July 7, 1992)

KTCZ The Cities Sampler Essentials, Volume 7 (1995)
"Melinda" (March 7, 1995)

KFOG Live From the Archives Volume 2 (1995)
"Where'd You Hide the Body" (Yoshi's. July 28, 1995)

KGSR Broadcasts Volume 4 (1996)
"Down Across the Delaware"

`DET Live, Volume 2 (2000)
"Red Dress" (Feb 8, 2000) Ronnie Johnson-bass, vocals, Daren Hess-
drums

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Who's doin' who?

“Water Walking Jesus,” was written by James McMurtry, Stephen Bruton and Annie Proulx and is performed by Jake Gyllenhaal in "Brokeback Mountain"

Covers Project website
Find artists that James has covered on his albums and which
of James' songs have been covered by other artists.

Here's our List:

Texas singer/songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard recorded McMurtry’s “Choctaw Bingo” on his latest release, Delirium Tremolos. McMurtry’s guitar skills are also featured on the track.

On Robert Earl Keen's "Farm Fresh Onions" Robert Earl Keen/Shawn Colvin
sing McMurtry's "Out Here in the Middle"Amazon.com*

On Robert Earl Keen's "Picnic" Robert Earl Keen
sings McMurtry's "Levelland" Amazon.com*

Valla Turner Williamson self titled CD, cover McMurtry's
" Song for a Deck Hand's Daughter"

On the late Townes Van Zandt's "Texas Rain"
 McMurtry sings Townes' "Snowin' on Raton" Amazon.com*

Lucy Kaplansky covers "Off and Running"on "The Red Thread"

Kasey Chambers: a rock on version of "Too Long in The Wasteland"
on her "Am I Not Pretty Enough" EP

Shawn Mullins covers "Where's Johnny" on "Egg Shells".

"Angeline"is covered by Erica Wheeler on her
CD "Three Wishes".