James McMurtry – The Black Dog and The Wandering Boy (LP Vinyl) The Merch Collective New Kid In Town

New Kid In Town

The rotating songwriting between those three distinct voices gives the album an almost live-show unpredictability

The ancient analog tapes have been lovingly restored – resulting in (as Neil says on NYA) “one of the most pure sounding acoustic performances we have in the Archive”

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James McMurtry – The Black Dog and The Wandering Boy (LP Vinyl) The Merch Collective New Kid In TownJames McMurtry grew up in a household where literature and counterculture weren't abstractions, they were the furniture. Larry McMurtry's son absorbed that storytelling DNA and translated it into a body of work that sits closer to Raymond Carver than to Nashville, finding the weight in ordinary lives without ever announcing itself. Eleven albums in, he remains one of the sharpest observers working in American song. When his father died in 2021, James