James McMurtry - Live Fountain Point, Lake Leelanau, MI. 2013

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Originally posted July 6, 2015

James McMurtry - Live Fountain Point

Lake Leelanau, MI.

July 14, 2013

Soundboard(?) @ vbr

Fountain Point on Lake Leelanau, Michigan. The historic 1889 waterfront resort welcomes you to a summer season filled with great performances. James McMurtry was joined in this front porch performance by Daren Hess - drums, Ronnie "Cornbread" Johnson - bass and Tim Holt - guitar/accordion. This performance was recorded on Sunday July 14, 2013.


This is an artist as rare as snow in July. Please get aquainted with him. He writes songs that paint pictures and can also play the guiar as well as anyone out there.

Set List provided by Generous Anon!:

1. Bayou Tortous
2. Red Dress
3. What's the Matter
4. How I'm Gonna Find You Now
5. Just Us Kids
6. You'd A' Thought
7. Choctaux Bingo
8. These Things I've Come to Know
9. We Can't Make It Here
10 Copper Canteen
11 Freeway View
12 Lobo Town
13 Restless
14 Levelland
15 Too Long in the Wasteland
16 Lights of Cheyenne

@ 1:42:43

There's a one-liner that Americana singer-songwriter James McMurtry is fond of delivering onstage — at the core, musicians are really just glorified beer salesmen. "We're basically the service industry. We're symbiotically tied to the club business. Beer sales and tips, you know?" McMurtry tells Rolling Stone Country. "I've seen a lot of young bands that think they're artists and they're not there to sell beer, but we want to keep the club happy, because if the club goes under we don't have a gig."

It's a cynical observation, which, for the acerbic McMurtry, is in keeping with his character. But it is also a show of solidarity with the hard-working class, be they songwriters and bartenders or the ranchers, fishermen and farmers whose struggles he sings about on his superb new album, Complicated Game.

Read more at Rolling Stone

 

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Lake Leelanau '13