"The simple fact is that James McMurtry may be the truest, fiercest songwriter of his generation."
- Stephen King
JAMES McMURTRY FEATURED IN NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE COVER STORY
“25 SONGS THAT TELL US WHERE MUSIC IS GOING”
AUSTIN, Texas — The New York Times Magazine’s cover story “25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going” (Sunday, March 12) prominently features a four-page spread focusing on James McMurtry’s “Copper Canteen,” from his 2015 release Complicated Game. The author points directly to the song’s frequently quoted opening line as a representative passage in McMurtry's work: “Honey, don’t you be yelling at me while I’m cleaning my gun.” “Though that line about the gun got a big laugh when McMurtry played it in Dallas,” Ruth Graham writes, “I still don’t know whether to hear it as a joke or a threat, and McMurtry has never been one to offer the easy comfort of a straight answer.” CLICK HERE for more.
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Bugle Boy
LaGrange, TX
26 Feb
Roy's Hall (SOLO)
Blairstown, NJ
27 Feb
Narrows Center (SOLO)
Fall River MA
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Daryl's House (Solo)
Pawning, NY
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Hangar Theatre (solo)
Ithaca, NY
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Gateway City Arts (SOLO)
Holyoke MA
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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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New single, "STATE OF THE UNION," available FREE for download today!
James McMurtry
The Power of the Front Man
Whatever the front man says or does gives license to those in the crowd. A certain band used to play at the Continental Club in Austin, where my band and I regularly play when we’re home. When they played, a woman danced naked, or very nearly naked, behind a screen on which a light threw her shadow to the full view of the audience. Some of the staff that worked those shows are still working at the club. They tell me that during those shows some of the men in the audience became unusually and uncomfortably aggressive toward the women in the audience. I thought that was terrible. CLICK HERE for more
IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM JAMES McMURTRY: Some one has a permit to run a gas pipeline from the Permian basin fracking field through the Big Bend Country to the Rio Grande where it will hook up with a Mexican pipeline for transport to the interior, or perhaps the Pacific where tankers can float it to one of our prospective Pacific trade partners. They say they won't take ranch land by eminent domain except as a last resort. Translation, "We'll get your land one way or another, so you better sell." Eminent Domain is supposed to only be invoked for projects which serve the common good. Some of us don't think this project is intended to serve the common good.
Word has it there are now Eminent Domain suits filed against fifty ranchers in the Big Bend region for the purpose of acquiring pipeline right of way.
Check out these links for more info:http://www.bigbendconservationalliance.org/openletter/
http://www.bigbendconservationalliance.org/
http://www.bigbendconservationalliance.org/binational_agreement_petition
http://www.bigbendconservationalliance.org/trans-pecos_pipeline
http://www.bigbendconservationalliance.org/concerns
http://www.bigbendconservationalliance.org/timeline
http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/a-pipeline-in-the-sand/