HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- Something about the cheap clock-radio James McMurtry had as a kid growing up in the '70s "made music sound magical," the Austin, Texas singer and songwriter says. "It could pick ...

Choctaw Bingo At eight and a half minutes, James McMurtry's "Choctaw Bingo" runs the perfect length for a good road song. The song's funny, vividly descriptive words may not be appropriate for ...

once worked as a barback. It didn’t last long, the 48-year-old said. “I’m not that good with people,” McMurtry said. McMurtry, however, is good at writing songs that upset conservatives, please the ...

Droll singer James McMurtry is a complex man who turns out cutting, precise story songs yet will write himself off as a “beer salesman” because he prefers to play his music in establishments that have ...

Austin-based singer-songwriter James McMurtry has Oklahoma pegged. He revealed this knowledge in one of his original composition, “Choctaw Bingo.” It’s about an imaginary family reunion with members ...

Austin’s James McMurtry writes songs with the richness of novels, his characters struggling through life’s trials in vignettes sculpted as vivid as the world in front of your eyes. Touring in support ...

He gives off an old stoic vibe, Gen X American Gothic. I discovered him a few years back with the brilliant "Choctaw Bingo” — do yourself a favor and YouTube it — and was hooked. McMurtry is writing ...

James McMurtry's sixth album, Saint Mary of the Woods, has a lot in common with his previous work — depressed characters leading sad or lonely lives populate his songs. McMurtry thinks that writing ...