Garden & Gun Article

Dan Winters (Aug/Sept 2010)

Garden & Gun magazine recently published an article on Americana musician James McMurtry. I'd never read the magazine before, but the article sucked me in. I first heard McMurtry's music on a Pandora Radio station that I'd created. I can't recall whether it was the lyrics he was intoning or the earthy twang of his Telecaster that caught my attention (perhaps both did). Whatever it was, I abruptly stopped what I was doing to see who was singing.

I've since listened to a lot of his music. His commentary resonates with me, somehow transcending place and scale while still remaining heavily rooted in working-class America.

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