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JAMES MCMURTRY'S NEW ALBUM, JUST US KIDS, DEBUTS ON FOUR BILLBOARD MAGAZINE CHARTS
James McMurtry's Just Us Kids (Lightning Rod/Thirty Tigers, released April 15) posted an impressive first week of sales, reflected in the album's debut on four separate Billboard charts in next week's issue:
Heatseekers Chart #2
Tastemaker Chart #6
Indie Label Chart #18
Top 200 album sales chart #136
First week sales of the new album nearly doubled those of the first week of McMurtry's last album, Childish Things.
James McMurtry and his band will embark on an international tour to support his new album, Just Us Kids. "We tour so we can make albums. We make albums so we can tour," said McMurtry.
Check out this early praise for JUST US KIDS:
"FOUR STARS" -- BLENDER
"FOUR STARS" -- AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"THREE out of FOUR STARS" -- USA TODAY
"...reveals McMurtry's sensitive brilliance as a chronicler of quiet desperation."
-- PASTE MAGAZINE
"McMurtry might be the best topical
writer performing right now and this
finds him at his finest."
-- Patterson Hood / DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
"The title track may lament the fact
that even arrested adolescents grow old,
but, if anything, James McMurtry
sounds more energized than ever."
-- TEXAS MONTHLY
"(James McMurtry's) new one Just Us Kids,
is gonna blow your socks all the way
off and back onto the
sheep what made 'em"
-- HARPMAGAZINE.COM
"As bracing as they are prophetic,
James McMurtry's songs shine a light on injustice and oppression, forcing
his listeners to take sides."
-- WASHINGTON POST
#1 ALBUM ON THE R&R/AMERICANA
RADIO CHART
2 Weeks Running
Here are some early features:
Austin American-Statesman
Popmatters
AmericanaRoots.com
Huffington Post
(self-penned blog entry)
Harp Magazine
Wired Magazine
(blog entry)
Variety.com
(video interview)
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