Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James McMurtry's songs, like his dad's novels, are fiction. "They're not about me. They are about a character," he said recently.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bring on the new stuff. Audience members will get to hear the title track to Americana master James McMurtry's upcoming new album, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Droll singer James McMurtry is a complex man who turns out cutting, precise story songs yet will write himself off as a "beer ...

Texas-based singer-songwriters James McMurtry and BettySoo were among the guests on the latest episode of nationally syndicated radio show eTown. Host Nick Forster and the eTown House Band joined ...

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 ...

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James McMurtry released his 11th studio album on June 20. The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy is a collection of songs that continues to cement the reality that McMurtry is, without a doubt, one of ...

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: ...

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 ...

Today (June 20), James McMurtry released his highly anticipated new album, The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy. As longtime fans have come to expect, the celebrated songwriter paints vivid pictures ...