James McMurtry Hits The Handlebar This Saturday, Nov 8, What could be better on election week?
This pull no punches gritty Texas rocking songwriter is just what we need.
Just Us Kids, the much loved recent release from our snarly workingman’s Texas song rocker James McMurtry has been selling every day since it’s release back in April. James rocks and rambles through stories and rants from tales of the roving eye to laments for aging black sheep to a few stern slaps at the corporate war mongers all filtered through grit of small town grief, anger, and redemption. These 12 tracks are the first new studio offerings since 2005’s firebrand “Childish Things” and are really not very different in a good way. Jack-slap you blue collar stance, rip-roaring swamp raw ravers and sultry bar room melancholy, all shot through with great guitar often blazing blues rock and some tasty slide here and there. Can you say nitty gritty? Oh yeah. James McMurtry brings it again. Political correctness and the delicate sensibilities of the country club set just aren’t on his check list, and never were thank goodness. Love ya James, keep bringing the real songs. The lunch is on us.
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Then come get any of James McMurtry’s CDs right here. Tickets also available here at Horizon.
James McMurtry - Just Us Kids, $12.99, on CD
Owner, founder, resident Mahler fanatic since 1975. Loves jazz, bluegrass, worldbeat, and old geezer blues rock by Canned Heat or Johnny Winter. Obsessed with 60’s and 70’s era John Lee Hooker. Don’t ask him about the Eagles.
