Known for his powerhouse performances, McMurtry tours year-round. His initial tour dates in support of the new album feature stops at the legendary Troubadour in Los Angeles, Tractor Tavern in Seattle, The Bluebird Theater in Denver, Roy’s Hall in Blairstown, NJ and more. Please see tour dates, with more to be added, below.

“You follow the words where they lead. If you can get a character, maybe you can get a story. If you can set it to a verse-chorus structure, maybe you can get a song. A song can come from anywhere, but the main inspiration is fear. Specifically fear of irrelevance. If you don’t have songs, you don’t have a record. If you don’t have a record, you don’t have a tour. You gotta keep putting out work.”

James McMurtry’s The Black Dog & The Wandering Boy will be available across digital platforms, compact disc, and standard black vinyl. A limited khaki color vinyl edition, as well as a limited compact disc edition, both signed by McMurtry will be available via Independent Retailers. A limited blue color vinyl edition, as well as a limited compact disc edition, both signed by McMurtry are available for pre-order NOW via NEW WEST RECORDS.

“One of America’s greatest living songwriters” – Rolling Stone

“New James McMurtry is absolute  [🔥] ” – Aaron Lee Tasjan

“James McMurtry returns with masterful storytelling & truth laying on The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy.” – Glide Magazine

“…there is so much to digest in the music of James McMurtry and this new album is filled with ample proof of his many gifts and talent.” – Lonesome Highway

“…solidifying McMurtry as one of this generation’s most unflinchingly potent and powerfully erudite recording artists.” – American Songwriter

“This is a career-best collection of dense, fascinating narratives.” – Country Universe

” A supremely insightful and inventive storyteller, McMurtry teases vivid worlds out of small details, setting them to arrangements that have the elements of Americana but sound too sly and smart for such a general category… this is roots rock at its most cathartic.” – Americana UK