James McMurtry - Live In Aught Three

James McMurtry's recent studio albums, 2005's Childish Things and 2008's Just Us Kids, earned him formidable accolades. The Village Voice called him "a poet of the people." Stephen King, writing in Entertainment Weekly, pronounced him "the truest, fiercest songwriter of his generation." Yet a lot of current McMurtry converts were introduced through the 2004 release Live in August-Three. Live albums aren't typically greeted with rave reviews, but McMurtry's rockin' treatments of songs like "Choctaw Bingo" and "Out Here in the Middle" in concert made an uncanny translation to record. The Austin Chronicle proclaimed, "This is no-frills, freak-flag rock. Turn it up!" PopMatters called it "a snapshot of where McMurtry is now, (making him) as a legitimate inheritor of the Texas songwriting tradition."

 

Saint Mary of The Woods

Fraulein O.

Red Dress

No More Buffalo

60 Acres

Rachel's Song

Out Here In The Middle

Choctaw Bingo

Lights of Cheyenne

Levelland

Max's Theorem

I'm Not From Here

Too Long in The Wasteland

Rex's Blues

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