JAMES MCMURTRY
FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2014 | 8 P.M. DOORS, 9 P.M. SHOW
STUDIO 222
222 Broadway N, Fargo, N.D. 58102
Tickets on-sale Friday, April 18 at 11 a.m.
General admission, ages 21+, $18 advance, $20 day of show
Additional fees may apply
Texas
singer/songwriter James McMurtry, known for his hard-edged character
sketches, comes from a literal family; his father, novelist and
screenwriter Larry McMurty, gave James his first guitar at age seven,
and his mother, an English professor, taught him how to play it.
McMurtry
began performing his own songs while attending the University
of Arizona and continued to do so after returning home and taking a job
as a bartender. When it transpired that a film script McMurty’s father
had written was being directed by John Mellencamp, who was also its
star, McMurtry’s demo tape was passed along and Mellencamp was duly
impressed, serving as co-producer on McMurtry’s 1989 debut album, Too
Long in the Wasteland. McMurtry also appeared ont eh soundtrack of the
film (Falling From Grace), working with Mellencamp, John Prine, Joe Ely,
and Dwight Yoakam in a one-off supergroup called Buzzin’ Cousins.
McMurtry has continued to record, releasing albums in 1992 and 1995.
Walk Between the Raindrops followed in 1998, and 2002 saw the release
of Saint Mary of the Woods, his last for the Sugar Hill label. He signed
with Compadre the following year, releasing Live in Aught-Three
in 2004 and Childish Things in 2005. Just Us Kids appeared in 2008 on
Lightening Rod Records, with another concert album, Live in Europe,
arrive in 2009.
Tickets are available at JadePresents.com, at the Tickets300 box office (300 Broadway, Fargo; open Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.), or by calling (866) 300-8300.
