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It should not be said, however, that the album simply revisits what the artist has done in the past. That dimension of his music is well displayed on Complicated Games. “I never make a conscious decision about what to write about,” he explains. Perhaps McMurtry’s descriptive powers are at least partly in the blood, he is the son of a professor of English and novelist Larry McMurtry of “Lonesome Dove” fame.įor all the existential objectivity of McMurtry’s lyrics, his narratives also possess an organic and surreal stream-of-consciousness element which results from his songwriting process.
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But, as two Americana Music Association awards show, he has earned critical acclaim-as well as a loyal following among aficionados of the same stark, unsentimental, almost existentialist, musical poetry practiced by the likes of Billy Joe Shaver, Robert Earl Keen and Ray Wyle Hubbard. Time off has clearly not softened his distinctive vision or his power to render that vision through lyrics and music. With Complicated Games, set for release on February 24, McMurtry marks his first studio album in six years. Little wonder his work has been praised by artists as diverse as John Mellencamp, Jason Isbell and Steven King. The world James McMurtry paints through his songs is distinctive: a place of stark isolation, of desperate hope struggling against unbeatable odds and where tragedy and beauty make strange but eternal bedfellows. Album Reviews, Americana, country, Features, James McMurtry - By Jon Black on Decem3:38 am Complicated Songs: James McMurtry’s “Complicated Games” Showcases a Master Storyteller.