James McMurty prepares new album

Texas singer/songwriter James McMurtry is back with his first studio album in more three years, Childish Things, due out Sep. 6 on Compadre Records. In 2003, James McMurtry joined forces with the Houston label to release Live in Aught-Three.

The new album features ten new McMurtry songs as well as covers of Peter Case’s “The Old Part of Town” and the country standard “Ole Slew Foot.”

The son of acclaimed author Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, Terms of Endearment), James' first album, released in 1989, was produced by John Mellencamp and marked the beginning of a series of projects for Columbia and Sugar Hill.

McMurtry will tour the U.S. for the remainder of 2005 and into next year in support of the album. He will appear at the nationally televised Farm Aid concert in September.