Live: James McMurtry - James McMurtry, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, 11/14/08
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“Now we’re gonna play all the hits,” James McMurtry growled into the microphone a quarter of the wayinto his set at the Music Hallof Williamsburg. He and his longtime road band the HeartlessBastards (not to be confused with The Heartless Bastards) then launched into“Choctaw Bingo,” one of the most brilliant pieces of American songwriting inthe last twenty years and probably McMurtry’s best known number, thanks to itscirculation on internet and satellite radio. You’d likely never hear it anywhere else though, its themes of casualincest, drugged children, and good-natured methamphetamine production tend tokeep it off major airwaves. Listening to James...
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