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▓█▀▄▄ Artist : James McMurtry ▄▄▀█▓
▐▓▌▐█▌ Album : The Horses and the Hounds ▐█▌▓▌
▐▀▄██ Label : New West Records ██▄▀▌
▄███▌ Genre : Country ▐███▄
▀███▌ Source : CD ▐███▀
▐▄▀██ Street Date : 2021-08-20 ██▀▄▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ Quality : 926 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels ▐█▌▐▓▌
▓█▄▀▀ Encoder : FLAC 1.3.1 ▀▀▄█▓
▓███ Size : 329.01 MB ███▓
▀ ▀█▌ Time : 47:18 min ▐█▀ ▀
▓▄███ Url : http://amazon.com/Horses-Hounds-James-McMurtry/dp ███▄▓
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████ James McMurtry knows how to tell stories and fashion memorable ████
████ characters, skills he picked up from his father, the great Texas ████
████ novelist Larry McMurtry. James was already a memorable tunesmith ████
████ when he released his debut, Too Long in the Wasteland, in 1989, ████
████ but while his craft as a writer has steadily improved in the ████
████ decades since then, it took him quite a bit longer to figure out ████
████ how to make a record as good as his songs, something he finally ████
████ nailed with 2008's Just Us Kids. 2021's The Horses and the Hounds ████
████ confirms he hasn't stopped learning, and he's delivered what may ████
████ well be his finest album to date, a tremendous meeting of form ████
████ and content where neither side lets the other down. Working with ████
████ producer Ross Hogarth and a band anchored by guitarist David ████
████ Grissom, The Horses and the Hounds finds McMurtry working with a ████
████ broader musical palette that deepens the dynamics and boosts the ████
████ tonal colors of his music. Quite simply, he's never made a record ████
████ where the musical performances serve his material as well as they ████
████ do here. Though there's plenty of nuance in these performances, ████
████ this isn't a contemporary folk album, but a rock & roll record ████
████ through and through -- a smart one, and one that reflects the age ████
████ and experience of the songwriter, yet it snaps with an authority ████
████ and confidence that's taut and steeped in natural energy. The ████
████ production and arrangements are not only memorable, they serve ████
████ the songs well, and McMurtry's vocals are superb evocations of ████
████ the protagonists of these stories: the man whose failing life and ████
████ marriage are teetering on the edge of one trivial annoyance, the ████
████ soldier eating an MRE in a war being run by KBR, a cowboy ████
████ pondering the news of a friend's death, a couple still making ████
████ sense of one of another after many years together, or an old man ████
████ summing up the details of what's left of his life. McMurtry's ████
████ songs deal with the stuff of adult lives and the disillusionment ████
████ of the real world, but he doesn't write or sing in a way that ████
████ makes them sound stodgy. His work is full of the messy energy and ████
████ surprising turns of a life lived hard, and on The Horses and the ████
████ Hounds, the music speaks as vividly as his excellent songs. Not ████
████ many artists pushing 60 get to deliver as satisfying a ████
████ breakthrough as this one. ████
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