James McMurtry
b. 18 March 1962, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Raised in Leesburg, Virginia, McMurtry's father is award-winning novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry. Encouraged by his mother, an English teacher, James began playing guitar at the age of seven and soon began showing musical ability and a liking for country and rock. He began writing songs during his teens, occasionally performing them in Tucson, while attending the University of Arizona where he studied English and Spanish. He tried various jobs in different parts of the country, always writing songs and in 1987 was a winner in a contest for writers of folk songs. On the soundtrack of Falling From Grace (1992), McMurtry sang with the Buzzin' Cousins (John Mellencamp, John Prine, Joe Ely and Dwight Yoakam). The film was scripted by his father and was directed by and starred Mellencamp and the latter produced McMurtry's acclaimed debut album, 1989's Too Long In The Wasteland. The collection demonstrated McMurtry's novelistic eye for detail, although his limited singing voice often hampered the delivery of the material.
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Albums
- (2008) Cheney's Toy
- (2008) Just Us Kids
- (2007) Live In Aught-Three
- (2007) Childish Things
- (2007) Americana Master Series: Best of the Sugar Hill Years
- (2006) It Had To Happen
- (2006) Walk Between The Raindrops
- (2006) Saint Mary Of The Woods
- (2002) Saint Mary Of The Woods
- (1998) Walk Between The Raindrops
- (1995) Where'd You Hide the Body
- (1989) Too Long In The Wasteland
Top Tracks
- Choctaw Bingo
- Walk Between the Raindrops
- Levelland
- We Can't Make It Here
- Red Dress
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