James McMurtry isn't nostalgic so much as precise. His songs often sound like memory talking -- pragmatic about art and time, ...

Bring on the new stuff. Audience members will get to hear the title track to Americana master James McMurtry’s upcoming new album, “The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy,” when he returns to The Moon ...

In James McMurtry's musical world, songs come from hurricanes, Waffle Houses, coal trains, new guitars. But they don't always come fast. Take McMurtry's "Ruby and Carlos," a sad song about bad-luck ...

Talking about his forthcoming album, his first in four years, James McMurtry is as no-nonsense as his songs. “It happened like all my records happened,” he said in a statement. “It’d been too long ...

From the first note and phrase, Texas-based, Americana singer-songwriter James McMurtry captivates ears with his gravelly, baritone voice, soulfully rendered to deliver his precisely crafted lyrics in ...

James McMurtry might be best when he’s meanest. His songs are always tough, about gritty people, drunk men, ugly women and people who clean pools and shoot glass insulators off telephone poles in West ...

SANTA CRUZ — James McMurtry knows exactly when the time is right to make a new album: When the tours start winding down, that is when he gets into the studio. “That’s kind of what drives it nowadays,” ...