James McMurtry

Doors open at 8:00 PM, show begins at 9:00 PM.

On "Just Us Kids," James McMurty follows up his critically acclaimed "Childish Things" with a dozen new, sharply drawn illuminations as he continues to hone and expand his considerable gifts. And the self-produced opus (James? fourth venture pulling strings on both sides of the glass) unquestionably represents his most ambitious, accomplished and ass-kicking presentation to date. "Just Us Kids" will be the first release for Nashville-based Lightning Rod Records; label president Logan Rogers previously worked as Vice President of A&R for Compadre Records on McMurtry's previous two albums. The Texas native long has been known as an astute, clear-eyed observer and concise, no-holds-barred chronicler of the human condition, but a growing socio-political edge fairly exploded just prior to the 2004 elections when his scathing, palace-rattling ?We Can?t Make It Here? was made available online as a free download. The seven-plus-minute diatribe against social injustice and the Administration's hypocrisy and deceptions repercussed wildly across the Internet and the airwaves, igniting a grassroots firestorm that has brought legions of new fans to the singer/songwriter's work. As of this writing, fan-made videos of ?We Can?t Make It Here? have been viewed more than 150,000 times on YouTube.