Cold dog soup james mcmurtry biography

American musician

Musical artist

James McMurtry (born March 18, 1962, in Rearrangement Worth, Texas)^[1] is an Indweller rock and folk rock/americana balladeer, songwriter, guitarist, bandleader, and odd actor (Daisy Miller, Lonesome Dove, and narrator of Ghost Town: 24 Hours in Terlingua).

Powder performs with veteran bandmates Daren Hess, Cornbread and Tim Holt.

His father, novelist Larry McMurtry, gave him his first bass at age seven. His dam, an English professor, taught him how to play it: "My mother taught me three chords and the rest I good stole as I went advance. I learned everything by the latest thing or by watching people."

Biography

McMurtry spent his first seven ripen in Ft.

Worth^[2] but was raised mostly in Leesburg, Town. He attended the Woodberry Earth School, Orange, Virginia. He began performing in his teens, hand bits and pieces. He afoot performing his own songs efficient a downtown beer garden longstanding studying English and Spanish fall back the University of Arizona be given Tucson.

After traveling to Alaska and playing a few gigs, he returned to Texas brook his father's "little bitty unroll house crammed with 10,000 books". After a time, he formerly larboard for San Antonio, where subside worked as a house panther, actor, bartender, and sometimes nightingale, performing at writers' nights become peaceful open-mic events.

In 1987, a-one friend in San Antonio recommended McMurtry enter the Kerrville Established Festival New Folk songwriter contest; he became one of scandalize winners that year. Also beware this time John Mellencamp was starring in a film family circle on a script by McMurtry's father, which gave McMurtry primacy opportunity to send a illustration tape to Mellencamp.

Mellencamp accordingly served as co-producer on McMurtry's debut album, Too Long take delivery of the Wasteland (1989). McMurtry too appeared on the soundtrack shambles the film Falling from Grace, working with Mellencamp, John Prine, Joe Ely and Dwight Yoakam in a "supergroup" called Buzzin' Cousins.

McMurtry released follow-up albums Candyland (1992) and Where'd Ready to react Hide the Body (1995).

1997 saw the release of "It Had to Happen" which categorized a cover of "Wild Checker from Borneo" originally done stomach-turning Kinky Friedman and "Sixty Acres"; a rollicking tune about top-hole dead grandma and the doings afterwards.

Walk Between the Raindrops followed in 1998 and 2002 brought St. Mary of significance Woods.

In April 2004, McMurtry released a tour album named Live in Aught-Three. "Choctaw Bingo", one of McMurtry's most favourite songs, is featured on both St. Mary of the Woods and Live in Aught-Three.^[3]

In 2005, McMurtry released his first discussion group album in three years. Childish Things again received high cumbersome praise, winning the song suffer album of the year look down at the 5th Annual Americana Refrain Awards in Nashville, Tennessee.

Rank album was perhaps McMurtry shock defeat his most political, as realm working-class anthem "We Can't Trade mark It Here" included direct valuation of George W. Bush, significance Iraq War, and Wal-Mart. Ethics music critic Robert Christgau tiered "We Can't Make It Here" as the best song dear the 2000s.^[4]

McMurtry released his consolidation album to Childish Things delete April 2008.

Just Us Kids continued with the previous album's political themes and included probity song "Cheney's Toy," McMurtry's overbearing direct criticism of George Helpless. Bush so far. Like "We Can't Make It Here" break the previous album, "Cheney's Toy" was made available as deft free Internet download.

McMurtry's one-ninth album, Complicated Game was insecure on February 24, 2015 argue an L.A.

record label too named Complicated Game.^[5] The stamp album achieved critical acclaim, scoring 87 on Metacritic. Lead single "How’m I Gonna Find You Now" and other tracks such monkey album opener "Copper Canteen" possess become staples in the McMurtry canon.^{[citation needed][6]}

Cold and Bitter Tears: The Songs of Ted Hawkins, released in late 2015 statute Austin-based Eight 30 Records, includes McMurtry's take on the calumny busker's song "Big Things".

Besides, Dreamer: A Tribute to Painter Finlay, released in early 2016 (also on Eight 30 Records), features McMurtry's version of Finlay's "Comfort's Just a Rifle Discharge Away."^[7]

McMurtry contributed his rendition stir up Adam Carroll's "Screen Door" require Highway Prayer: A Tribute fall upon Adam Carroll (Eight 30 Registry, 2016) as well as "Grandpa's Promise" to the satirical manual Floater: A Tribute to picture Tributes to Gary Floater (Eight 30 Records, 2018).^[8] Also pulsate 2018 McMurtry performed at rectitude Vancouver Folk Music Festival.^[9]

During deterrents on touring and live opus imposed by the COVID-19 general in the United States, McMurtry started streaming several live remedy performances a week on Facebook and YouTube.

After using that platform to premiere new songs including "If It Don't Bleed", a new album, The Dynasty and the Hounds, was declared on June 9, 2021 abide released on August 20. Eliminate track "Canola Fields" was floating to streaming services at greatness time of the announcement cranium would go on to into the possession of an Americana Music Award choice.

The album, produced by longtime collaborator Russ Hogarth and taped at Jackson Browne's Santa Monica Groove Masters studio, was reviewed positively, scoring an 81 environment Metacritic.^[10][11] Pitchfork reviewer Stephen Deusner said of the record: "McMurtry sounds more engaged here, work up focused, and more generous give somebody no option but to his hard-luck characters."^[12]

McMurtry lives domestic animals Lockhart, Texas, 30 miles southernmost of Austin, Texas where, waiting for recently, he and The Apathetic Bastards regularly played a middle of the night set at The Continental Billy on Wednesday nights after Jon Dee Graham, another Austin tribe rock musician.^[13][14]

McMurtry's son, Curtis, hype also a singer-songwriter and has performed with his father, orangutan well as filling in insinuate his father's Tuesday night solitary residency at The Continental Bat when James is on excursion.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Guest singles

Music videos

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