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Just Us Kids (CD)

By: James McMurtry (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Just Us Kids (CD) Album By James McMurtry (Artist)
1   Bayou Tortous
2   Just Us Kids
3   God Bless America (Pat Macdonald Must Die)
4   Cheney's Toy
5   Freeway View
6   Hurricane Party
7   Ruby And Carlos
8   Brief Intermission
9   Fire Line Road
10   Govenor, The
11   Ruins Of The Realm
12   You'd A Thought (Leonard Cohen Must Die)
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (p.117) - "It's McMurtry's brilliant character sketches that really shine -- starting with the hilarious, poignant title track..." -- Grade: A-
Dirty Linen (p.77) - "JUST US KIDS screams with political tension. McMurtry speaks out against corporate greed and war profiteering and paints a world of drug addicts, murderers, and corrupt politicians."
Q (Magazine) (p.140) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[H]e's getting better with age....His band, The Heartless Bastards, could hold their own in the rowdiest barroom."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.105) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[H]e's never less than compelling as he takes swipes at the greed of corporations and the conflict in Iraq or conjures up a kind of aural road movie for long-term losers..."
Blender (Magazine) (p.77) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Muscularly arranged with bongolated beats, psychedelic swamp guitars, boogie-woogie pine top and snowballing chorus hooks.....You'd be hard-pressed to find a more hard-boiled depiction of hardscrabble '00s life on the edge of recession..."
Paste (magazine) (p.57) - "[I]t's the ache of 'Ruby and Carlos' that reveals McMurtry's sensitive brilliance as a chronicler of quiet desperation..."

Title Note

Nearly 20 years into his recording career, James McMurtry's JUST US KIDS reveals a man who has become not only one of America's finest roots-rockers, but one of the most penetrating, incisive songsmiths, wielding a lethal wit and a winning way with sociopolitical commentary. His previous album's protest epic "We Can't Make It Here Anymore" set a high bar that's ably matched here by everything from the bluesy state-of-the-union address, "Cheney's Toy," to national anti-anthem "God Bless America." McMurtry's patented deadpan delivery makes every carefully observed narrative connect like a kidney punch.

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5 out of 5 stars Never a day older, April 23, 2008
By Tex
James McMurtry sounds like a young man recounting tales of old and has never seemed more energized! I love it!

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