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James McMurtry "Saint Mary Of The Woods"

2002 | Genre: Country | Rock | Folk | Songwriter

Saint Mary is a mature, refined album of diverse, sometimes humorous, sometimes gloomy portraits. Granted, they're studio portraits, for good or ill. The elegiac title track, for example, portrays a shattered diva ("Where are you going/Brandy on your breath/Bottle's open, spilled across the desk/Snifter's broken, smashed against the wall") from a literary distance: McMurtry's slightly hangdog baritone and the shimmering, Pro Tooled setting keep the listener out of harm's way.

The fuzzed-up "Lobo Town" cuts to the diagnosis left off the bat ("Grand Daddy's good name/Fits like a shackle and a chain") and then catalogs the sickness of a drugged-up rich boy with a 2/4 beat that keeps things moving along as gracefully as McMurtry's narrative skill.

It's worth noting that McMurtry seldom bothers to sing; his metier is a Lou Reed-ish patter that hits a deadpan precision. He doesn't sound as if he doesn't believe the stories he tells--which is probably why they're so easy to enjoy. Even when he rhapsodizes about a pair of kissing cousins on the rockabilly family-reunion epic "Choctaw Bingo," it's amusing rather than appalling: "I want to get between 'em/With a great big ol' hard-on like a old Bois d'Arc fence post/You could hang a pipe-rail gate from/Do some sister twisters 'til the cows come home." Indeed, the singer is so entertaining that I figure his shallow shadow brother is due for at least as much of a good time as McMurtry gives us with his tales.

Personnel: James McMurtry (vocals, guitar, slide guitar); Stephen Bruton (electric guitar, baritone guitar, mandolin); Ronnie Johnson (guitar, bass, background vocals); David Grissom (guitar); Lisa Mednick (accordion); Earl Poole Ball (piano); Ian McLagan (Wurlitzer piano, organ); Darren Hess (drums, shaker); Paul Pearcy (tambo, maracas, percussion, cowbell); Randy Garibay, Jr., Myra Spector (background vocals).

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Track List:

01 Dry River

02 Valley Road

03 Saint Mary Of The Woods

04 Out Here In The Middle

05 Lobo Town

06 Broken Bed

07 Red Dress

08 Gulf Road

09 Gone To The Y

10 Choctaw Bingo Buy Book at Lowest Price on Amazon

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