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| n/a by www.ew.com |
The protest songs on Just Us Kids, particularly 'Cheney's Toy,' will hog all the attention, but they're the least of this roots rocker's treasures here. It's James McMurtry's brilliant character sketches that really shine. |
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| n/a by www.austinchronicle.com |
In such stories, McMurtry locates again and again an element of humanity that saves his angriest screeds from easy pigeonholing. |
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| n/a by www.pastemagazine.com |
Its the ache of 'Ruby and Carlos' that reveals McMurtrys sensitive brilliance as a chronicler of quiet desperation (though even here, he cant resist a jibe about the Mason-Dumbass Line). |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
McMurtry cuts through all the crap when describing the state of America these days. Call McMurtrys music what you will, just dont call it kids stuff. |
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| n/a by www.villagevoice.com |
He's always here to try to twist reality's wires some more, just so, and leave a little room to move. |
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| n/a by www.blender.com |
Muscularly arranged with bongolated beats, psychedelic swamp guitars, boogie-woogie pine top and snowballing chorus hooks, Just Us Kids approximates a certain literate strain of early-'80s album rock. |
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