Magic Bag Presents: James McMurtry

Shows Are Standing Room OnlyA Lone Star sheriff hunts quail on horseback and keeps a secret second family. Amechanic lies among the spare parts on the floor of his garage and wonders if he canafford to keep his girlfriend. A troubled man sees hallucinations of a black dog and awandering boy and hums “Weird Al” songs in his head.

These are some of the strangeand richly drawn characters who inhabit James McMurtry’s eleventh album, The BlackDog & the Wandering Boy. A supremely insightful and invent