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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0616892658429 Label: Compadre Records Manufacturer: Compadre Records MPN: 926584 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Compadre Records Release Date: September 06, 2005 Studio: Compadre Records Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Within the song cycle of innocence and experience that is Childish Things, James McMurtry continues to explore musical territory between rock and a hard place. The social commentary of the relentlessly bleak "We Can't Make It Here" and "Six-Year Drought" is more pointed than ever, while the arrangements throughout are as taut, muscular and slap-in-the-face direct as the songs. While the opening "See the Elephant," the title cut, and "Memorial Day" evoke a younger person's sense of wonder, the mortal lessons have plainly taken their toll by the closing "Holiday." Along the way, highlights range from the accordion-laced yearning of "Charlemagne's Home Town" to the Chuck Berry-style, guitar-driven rock of "The Old Part of Town" to a stirring duet with Joe Ely on "Old Slew Foot." With his terse, cut-to-the-bone artistry, McMurtry never wastes a word or a note. --Don McLeese Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Can't Put Away Childish ThingsJames McMurtry sees things a little more askew than most of us. The final song on "Childish Things" comments on how little things seem to have changed. Departing Chicago at 9:52 In clean desert camo all baggy and loose Sits an Iowa Guardsman alone by the gate The place sure looked different, in 1968 When he traveled with mom, first time on a plane To visit some kin, he's forgotten their names But he remembers the soldiers, still in their teens Read More Rating:  - One of my favorite CD'sThis one spends most of it's time in my car. Great road music and very entertaining. James's music always amazes me in the way he can dig down and grab stories as if he's living them at the time he writes them. Rating: - McMurtry's mad as hell ... I heard an interview with James McMurty on National Public Radio one day while driving home from Louisiana. In the time it took to get from Marshall to New Diana, I fell completely under the spell of McMurty's hard-driving music and tough-as-nails lyrics. McMurtry reminds me of a young Bob Dylan, singing about difficult personal relationships, society's ills and the horros of war. "Bad Enough" tells of war on the home front. Where have you been? I don't ... Read More Rating: - One of those you can't get out of your mindI love this CD by McMurtry. I'm not knowledgable enough to write a long review, only to say I am mesmerized by him and have ordered several of his other works since enjoying this one so much. Rating: - A Masterpiece - quite impressiveThis is a masterwork. James McMurtry, with Childish Things, has created an album that won the Esky award for 2006 (an award for music that goes beyond the expected) and he beat out Neil Young last September when Childish Things and "We Can't Make It Here" won the Americana Music Awards for album and song of the year, respectively. That win put Neil's Living With War and Let's Impeach the President into second place! Neil is my favorite popular artist - but James' album is truly as fine ... Read More |
