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James McMurtry

James McMurtry at Dan's Siverleaf (Denton, Texas) in 2005
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About the artist

James McMurtry (born March 18, 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a Texas rock/Texas Country singer, songwriter, guitarist, bandleader and occasional actor (Daisy Miller, Lonesome Dove). He performs as James McMurtry And The Heartless Bastards with veteran bandmates and rhythm section Darren Hess and Ronnie Johnson (not to be confused with the Cincinnati, OH, band Heartless Bastards). The son of acclaimed author Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, Terms of Endearment), James grew up on a steady diet of Johnny Cash and Roy Acuff records.

Top songs

  1. Choctaw Bingo
  2. We Can't Make It Here
  3. Just Us Kids
  4. Childish Things
  5. Canola Fields
  6. Cheney's Toy
  7. See the Elephant
  8. Copper Canteen
  9. Hurricane Party
  10. Bayou Tortous
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  1. No More Buffalo
  2. Walk Between the Raindrops
  3. Ruby and Carlos
  4. Rachel's Song
  5. God Bless America (pat mAcdonald must die)
  6. Freeway View
  7. Off And Running
  8. Restless
  9. Levelland
  10. Where'd You Hide The Body
  11. Out Here in the Middle
  12. You Got to Me
  13. Painting By Numbers
  14. Memorial Day
  15. Bad Enough
  16. Ruins of the Realm
  17. Too Long in the Wasteland
  18. If It Don’t Bleed
  19. Forgotten Coast
  20. The Governor
  21. Ain't Got a Place
  22. Brief Intermission
  23. I'm Not From Here
  24. Sixty Acres
  25. How'm I Gonna Find You Now
  26. Angeline
  27. Charlemagne's Home Town
  28. Holiday
  29. Pocatello
  30. Decent Man
  31. Down Across The Delaware
  32. Red Dress
  33. Sailing Away
  34. She Loves Me
  35. Song For A Deck Hands Daughter
  36. Shining Eyes
  37. Old Part of Town
  38. Fire Line Road
  39. Outskirts
  40. Blackberry Winter
  41. South Dakota
  42. Late Norther
  43. Jackie
  44. These Things I've Come To Know
  45. Safe Side
  46. South Texas Lawman
  47. Terry
  48. Carlisle's Haul
  49. Fuller Brush Man
  50. Crazy Wind
  51. Vaquero
  52. Long Island Sound
  53. Operation Never Mind
  54. Melinda
  55. Valley Road
  56. Deaver's Crossing
  57. Lobo Town
  58. Right Here Now
  59. Poor Lost Soul
  60. The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy
  61. Ft. Walton Wake-Up Call
  62. The Horses and the Hounds
  63. Laredo (Small Dark Something)
  64. Lights of Cheyenne
  65. Every Little Bit Counts
  66. Gulf Road
  67. What’s the Matter
  68. Cutter
  69. Broken Bed
  70. Rayolight
  71. Slew Foot
  72. Six Year Drought
  73. You'd a' Thought (Leonard Cohen Must Die)
  74. Dry River
  75. Peter Pan
  76. Saint Mary Of The Woods
  77. Sons Of The Second Sons
  78. Pinocchio in Vegas
  79. The Color of Night
  80. Annie
  81. Fast As I Can
  82. Paris
  83. One More Winter
  84. Good Life
  85. Rex's Blues
  86. Tired of Walking
  87. Where's Johnny
  88. Lost In The Backyard
  89. Talkin' at the Texaco
  90. For All I Know

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