James McMurtry

If Lou Reed hadn't already copped the title, James McMurtry could have called his second
album Magic and Loss. The magic is in his lyrics. McMurtry seems to have inherited a hawk's
eye for detail from his dad, novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry. In "Storekeeper,"
the vanity of the greedy rich reflects as clearly in the shine on a shop owner's shoes as in
the derision he aims at his impoverished customers – barefoot people expected... More >