I don’t want to be threatened by fat cats worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Certainly not ones who’ve moved their assets from their homeland in order to avoid paying taxes. And I don’t want to hear about the future from any fucking asshole who has not spent more time surfing the Internet than flying […]

FolkWax: Your song "We Can’t Make It Here" garnered a lot of attention. Has the political side of your music helped you gain an audience? James McMurtry: Certainly, and putting that up as a free download did more for me than anything I’ve put on CD in the last decade. I didn’t know the power […]

R-E-S-P-E-C-T The couple in front of us were from Lancaster. That’s ninety miles from L.A., a desperate windblown metropolis sans all the glamour of Los Angeles. She was supposed to report for her bail bondsman gig at midnight, but tonight she was going to be late, tonight she was playing hooky, tonight she was going […]

This is HYSTERICAL! Please forgive the typos…I didn’t think I’d need my glasses at Staples Center! That’s where i am…deep in the bowels of L.A.’s premier venue… FOR THE KENNY CHESNEY SHOW! This ain’t no pop, this ain’t no rock and roll, this is COUNTRY! Where everybody’s friendly, where you feel like you BELONG! We’re […]