User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
- Record Label: New West Records
- Release Date: Jun 20, 2025
- Summary: The latest full-length release from Texas singer-songwriter James McMurtry features contributions from such artist as BettySoo, Jim Brock, Don Dixon, Sarah Jarosz, Pat MacDonald, Curtis McMurtry, and Charlie Sexton.
Buy Now
| Buy on |
|
- Record Label: New West Records
- Genre(s): Country, Folk, Pop/Rock
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 4 out of 4
-
Mixed: 0 out of 4
-
Negative: 0 out of 4
-
Jul 15, 2025McMurtry combines verifiable facts with higher truths from memory and imagination in a rich and complex manner. .... A fine album where present-day life connects to the past in a doleful yet meaningful manner.
-
UncutJul 15, 2025Teems with compelling, trademark narratives full of vivid characters. .... There's a weight to his voice that lends these tales even more authority. [Jul 2025, p.31]
-
MojoJul 15, 2025Ten songs in all, played on acoustic and electric guitar and occasional banjo, with a perfectly understated band. [Aug 2025, p.80]
-
Jul 15, 2025Much is made in the promotional materials about the aggregation of guests: Sarah Jarosz, Charlie Sexton, Bonnie Whitmore, Bukka Allen, and others, but their contributions are mostly subtle. McMurtry and his core band of guitarist Tim Holt, bassist Cornbread, drummer Daren Hess, and harmony vocalist BettySoo do most of the heavy lifting. McMurtry is, for whatever reason, a vastly underrated guitarist and vocalist, yet he shines on both accounts in these ten songs, all but two of which he wrote.