Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James McMurtry will release his first album in four years, 'The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy,' on June 20. - Credit: Mary ...

James McMurtry spoke about the inspiration behind the title track from The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy in a press release. “The album title and that song comes from my stepmother, Faye,” he shared ...

Local lovers of superlative songwriting have much to celebrate this June. The award-winning Texas troubadour James McMurtry is releasing his first album in four years, The Black Dog and the Wandering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the course of 10 songs, McMurtry also explores this present moment in America. For example, “Sons of the Second Sons,” a slow ...

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,” ...

Texas singer/songwriter James McMurtry’s new album, The Black Dog and The Wandering Boy, opens with a menacing, corrosive tune called “Laredo (Small Dark Something).” It’s a true stomper, a natural ...

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 ...

If James McMurtry doesn’t make it to Pittsburgh for his show next week, he already has a sneaking suspicion where he’ll be. “Hopefully they’ll let us back in from Canada the night before because we ...

Austin’s James McMurtry writes songs with the richness of novels, his characters struggling through life’s trials in vignettes sculpted as vivid as the world in front of your eyes. Touring in support ...

JAMES MCMURTRY: (Singing) I was thinking 'bout you crossing Southern Alberta canola fields on a July day, about the same chartreuse as that '69 Bug you used to travel around San Jose. MCMURTRY: ...

Over the course of 10 songs, McMurtry also explores this present moment in America. For example, “Sons of the Second Sons,” a slow burner that skewers not just Donald Trump’s authoritarianism but the ...