James McMurtry It Had To Happen 180g LP

James McMurtry

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ALTO105

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ALTO105

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Description

New 2025 collection! From a very meticulous collector, this comes from a collection great highly sought-after items! Long Out Of Print, won't last long! Only 1 Copy Available!

Vinyl Grade: Sealed

Jacket Grade: Mint

Produced by the Lone Star State's legendary steel guitar player and stealth producer Lloyd Maines, this is the James McMurtry album that had to happen! James retains all the alienation and disaffection that have endeared him to fans and critics alike. His ability to conjure a bygone place, person, or time is the storyteller's gift or burden, depending on your point of view. As Dan Oellette noted in last year's Acoustic Guitar feature, James creates an " intriguing batch of rock-inflected story-songs that probe the messiness, dysfunction, and turmoil of life in the heartland." His songs are steeped in reality sometimes with quiet irony Sixty Acres, sometimes with biting sarcasm 12 O'Clock Whistle.

It Had To Happen finds James at his most literate and empathic, joining such great Texan songwriters as Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Terry Allen, Robert Earl Keen and James McMurtry; it had to happen!

Selections:
1. Paris
2. Jaws Of Life
3. For All I Know
4. No More Buffalo
5. 12 O'Clock Whistle
6. Sixty Acres
7. Be With Me
8. Wild Man From Borneo
9. Stancliff's Lament
10. Peter Pan