James McMurtry’s contempo flat albums, 2005’s Childish Things and 2008’s Just Us Kids, becoming him appalling accolades. The Village Voice alleged him “a artist of the people.” Stephen King, autograph in Entertainment Weekly, arresting him “the truest, fiercest songwriter of his generation.” Yet a lot of accepted McMurtry converts were alien through the 2004 absolution Live in Aught-Three. Live albums aren’t about greeted with babble reviews, but McMurtry’s rockin’ treatments of songs like “Choctaw Bingo” and “Out Here in the Middle” in concert fabricated an astonishing adaptation to record. The Austin Chronicle proclaimed, “This is no-frills, freak-flag rock. Turn it up!” PopMatters alleged it “a snapshot of area McMurtry is now, [marking him] as a accepted almsman of the Texas songwriting tradition.”
Now, on October 13, 2009, Lightning Rod Records will absolution Live in Europe, a certificate of McMurtry’s aboriginal European tour, on which he was abutting by keyboardist Ian McLagan and adolescent Texas songwriting fable Jon Dee Graham. The set will be accessible as a CD with a benefit DVD, or as a choice vinyl LP amalgamation with a CD and DVD insert.
In aboriginal 2009, James McMurtry and his leash catholic across to play their aboriginal European tour. The guys played for agog crowds in Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, The Netherlands, Scotland and Belgium. Joining the casting on keyboards for the bout was the allegorical Ian McLagan (who aswell played on McMurtry’s latest flat album, Just Us Kids).
The best recordings from the Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Geislingen, Germany concerts were accumulated to actualize Live in Europe. The album includes a benefit DVD featuring performances from the Amsterdam show. This marks the aboriginal time admirers will be able to acquirement video footage of McMurtry abide in concert. The choice vinyl adaptation includes amid copies of the CD and DVD. Fellow Austin-based songwriter Jon Dee Graham opened the shows and joins the casting on a adaptation of his tune “Laredo” on the benefit DVD.
The son of acclaimed columnist Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, Terms of Endearment), James grew up on a abiding diet of Johnny Cash and Roy Acuff records. His aboriginal album, appear in 1989, was produced by John Mellencamp and apparent the alpha of a alternation of acclaimed projects for Columbia and Sugar Hill. In 2004, McMurtry appear the universally acclaimed Live in Aught-Three on Compadre Records. 2005’s Childish Things garnered some of the accomplished analytical acclaim of McMurtry’s career and spent six weeks at No. 1 on the Americana Music Radio Chart in 2005 and 2006. In September 2006, Childish Things and "We Can't Make It Here" won the Americana Music Awards for album and song of the year, respectively. McMurtry accustomed added Americana Music Award nominations for 2008’s Just Us Kids. The album apparent his accomplished Billboard 200 blueprint position in added than 19 years.
The Washington Post acclaimed McMurtry’s abide prowess: "Much absorption is paid to James McMurtry's lyrics, and appropriately so: He creates a novel's account of affect and acquaintance in four account of blisteringly abrupt couplets. What gets overlooked, however, is that he's an able bedrock guitar player. At a sold-out Birchmere, the Austin-based artisan was abutting by bagman Daren Hess and bassist Ronnie Johnson in a set that approved the raw ability of wince-inducing adumbration propelled by electric guitar. It was austere stuff, imparted by a abnormally austere band."
McMurtry will bout the U.S. and Europe this abatement in abutment of the abide album.
Track List:
Bayou Tortue
Just Us Kids
Hurricane Party
You’d a’ Thought (Leonard Cohen Must Die)
Fräulein O.
Ruby and Carlos
Freeway View
Restless
Bonus DVD:
Choctaw Bingo
You’d a’ Thought (Leonard Cohen Must Die)
Freeway View
We Can’t Make It Here
Laredo (with Jon Dee Graham)
Too Long In The Wasteland
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