ALEX MCMURRAY

EXCLUSIVE! 90's Rock phenoms and TVT recording artists Royal Fingerbowl reunite for a special one-time-only performance!

OR: The Alex McMurray band without Bill. YOU MAKE THE CALL!

June 22 6-7 on the main stage. Check out the site HERE. Also New Orleans Klezmer Allstars, Marco Benevento, Mike Dillon Band and more...

Took the "Best Roots Rock" category at this years Big Easy Awards sponsored by Gambit Weekly. See the list of winners here.

Thanks to everyone who came out early to the Gentilly Stage on Saturday. Have been too busy to talk about the set until after the fact. Pretty classic. Here's a little thing from the Offbeat.

Chaz and Alex will be going on WWOZ on Tuesday night for David Kunian's Kitchen Sink show to talk about Chaz Fest. We will have music from the bands that are playing this year so tune in to www.wwoz.org at 10pm!

Courtesy of Kourtney Keller and the good people at twelvepoint.net. email me and tell me what you think. info@alexmcmurray.com

check it out here

The Tin Men have a brand new CD and it will be available for the first time WEDNESDAY APRIL 10 at DBA. It's called "Avocado Woo Woo" and was produced by the legendary John Porter (Buddy Guy, BB King, The Smiths...). Show starts at 7.

Buy it here!

The new CD "I Will Never Be Alone In This Land" was nominated for Best Album of 2012. Also best Roots Rock. Check it out HERE. The award ceremony takes place April 22 at Harrah's Casino...

We are leaving on Wednesday to do a 2 week run of shows around the city of Lyon. We will be hosted by the Zozophonic Orchestra, who have been so kind as to set this all up. Vive L'étain!

http://www.altcountry.nl/blog/2013/02/alex-mcmurray/#more-7722

Check out the dates HERE.

French Quarter Fest, Jazz Fest and more. On the Shows Page.

This Thursday at 1pm and Saturday at noon on WWNO and at WWNO.org. You can read a little about the show HERE.

Check it out here https://digitaltipjar.com/alexmcmurray

Here's where I'll probably be...

ALEX MCMURRAY / Will Never Be Alone In This Land Threadhead THR00051 (CD). 2012. Carlo Nuccio, prod.; Jacques DeLatourBy John Swenson, December 2012 stereophile.com
Alex McMurray is the linchpin of one of the most vibrant music scenes in contemporary America: the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans. This bohemian paradise has its own fringe festival, Chaz Fest, run by the enter-prising McMurray, who plays with the Tin Men, Happy Talk Band, and the Valparaiso Men's Chorus. While his versatile, genre-defying guitar work is a prized asset in local sessions—McMurray is one of the core players at Bywater's recording mecca, Piety Street Studios—his greatest strength is his songwriting. McMurray's compositional imagina-tion seems boundless. He covers as wide a stylistic range as any contempo-rary writer, matching cleverly turned lyrics and story songs with durable melodies and a structural vision that leads to many of his songs having surprise musical twists that match the words' intricacy. "I was tall in the saddle, sick in the soul," he writes in the surrealistic "The Man Who Shot the Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." This syncopated shuffle rides along on a loping sequence of guitar fills that brings the narrator to this nonchalant observation: "String me up or cut me down / it's all the same to me." What really concerns him? "Bury me not in a mohair suit." In a deadpan as droll as Randy Newman's, he boasts, "I was the fastest gun west of Tarzana," a line that might leave you scratching your head if it weren't so cleverly unaf-fected. Whether it's the lamentation in waltz time of "Texas Again," the Peter Gunn—inspired garage rock of "Otis at the Wheel," the mellow gospel-style meditation of the title track, or the frantic brass-band breakdown "Me and My Bad Luck," we're hearing a true original work his magic. —John Swenson 

I was proud to be a part of it. Check it out here.

Alex McMurray will perform at the Rockwood Music Hall on January 2 at 8pm.

Saturday April 27 at the Gentilly Stage. Time TBA.

The current wisdom has it that one must be on Twitter. In this business. My "handle" is alexmcmurrayyy (that's "why, why why?).

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Mayer Danzig's December playlist. Check it out HERE

Alex talks about the making of his new CD I Will Never Be Alone In This Land. Check it out HERE!