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JAMES McMURTRY NEW RELEASE THE HORSES AND THE HOUNDS,
HIS FIRST FULL-LENGTH STUDIO ALBUM IN SEVEN YEARS, RELEASED
AUGUST 20, 2021 ON NEW WEST RECORDS
Celebrated songwriter's highly anticipated new record marks his debut
on New West Records and garners a slew of "Best Of 2021" plus an Americana Music
Association Song Of The Year Nomination for "Canola Fields"
AUSTIN, Texas — In James McMurtry’s new effort, The Horses and the Hounds, the acclaimedsongwriter backs personal narratives with effortless elegance (“Canola Fields”) and endless energy (“If ItDon’t Bleed”). This first collection in seven years, out August 20, 2021 on New West Records, spotlights a seasoned tunesmith in peak form as he turns toward reflection (“Vaquero”) and revelation ( closer “Blackberry Winter”). Familiar foundations guide the journey. “There’s a definite Los Angeles vibe to this record,” McMurtry says. “The ghost of Warren Zevon seems to be stomping around among the guitar tracks. Don’t know how he got in there. He never signed on for work for hire.”
The Horses and the Hounds is a reunion of sorts. McMurtry recorded the new album with legendary producer Ross Hogarth (John Fogerty, Van Halen, Keb’ Mo’) at Jackson Browne’s Groovemaster’s in Santa Monica, California, a world class studio that has housed such legends as Bob Dylan (2012’s Tempest) and David Crosby (2016’s Lighthouse) as well as Browne himself for I’m Alive (1993) and New Found Glory, Coming Home (2006). McMurtry and Hogarth first worked together 30 years ago, when Hogarth was a recording engineer in the employ of John Mellencamp at Mellencamp’s own Belmont Studios near Bloomington, Indiana. Hogarth recorded McMurtry’s first two albums, Too Long in the
Wasteland and Candyland, for Columbia Records and later mixed McMurtry’s first self-produced album, Saint Mary of the Woods, for Sugar Hill Records. Another veteran of those three releases, guitarist David Grissom (Joe Ely, John Mellencamp, Dixie Chicks), returns with some of his finest work. Accordingly, the new collection marks another upward trajectory: The Horses and the Hounds will be McMurtry’s debut album on genre-defining Americana record label New West Records (Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, Lucinda Williams, John Hiatt, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Buddy Miller, dozens more).
Show time: 8:00 PM, doors 7:00 PM
Tickets: $34.65
Advance tickets: www.eventbrite.com
