{"id":3076,"date":"2025-06-24T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/james-mcmurtry-gives-us-the-protest-album-we-need\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:30:00","slug":"james-mcmurtry-gives-us-the-protest-album-we-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/james-mcmurtry-gives-us-the-protest-album-we-need\/","title":{"rendered":"James McMurtry Gives Us the Protest Album We Need"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Though James McMurtry has been releasing albums consistently for three and a half decades, his tenth record, The Horses and the Hounds <\/em>(2021), <\/em>introduced the Texas musician to a new group of fans when it garnered positive reviews in publications such as Pitchfork, <\/em>Slant, <\/em>and Paste. <\/em>McMurtry\u2019s fine lyrical storytelling and ear for melody deserved a larger audience, and Horses <\/em>was his most consistently excellent set of songs.<\/p>\n

On his new album (and second for New West Records), The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy <\/em>(June 20), McMurtry continues the songwriting renaissance he began on The Horses and the Hounds<\/em>. Co-producing here with Don Dixon, who assisted on R.E.M.\u2019s first two albums, McMurtry uses traces of his past to create this new set of songs. Once again featuring the hardscrabble, down-on-their-luck characters that McMurtry crafted so finely on past releases, The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy <\/em>is a meditation on growing old and death, one that doesn\u2019t feel like aging gracefully is the best option.<\/p>\n

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