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New Cannonball Review 28-Aug-09 www.nola.com Alex McMurray makes a splash with his 'Cannonball' CD Alex McMurray is everywhere... But many fans first discovered McMurray April 30. On the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival's Lagniappe Stage, he performed to the largest crowd of his career. Reviews were across-the-board ecstatic.	View
Sounds of New Orleans - Block Island Times Jul-09	View
Train Whistles and Flies’ Wings Offbeat Magazine - www.offbeat.com Although New Orleans has a reputation as a brass/jazz/funk playground, it has been a home to songwriters since the beginning of the 20th Century. From Clarence Williams to Jelly Roll Morton to Dave Bartholomew, from Allen Toussaint and Earl King to more recent tunesmiths such as Paul Sanchez, Anders Osborne and Ed Volker, there’s a history of musicians putting words and notes together in profound ways. With How to Be a Cannonball, Alex McMurray takes his place in those ranks. How to be a cannonball review - Offbeat Magazine Alex McMurray’s long awaited new album, How to Be a Cannonball, could be the record that gives him the recognition as being one of the best songwriters working today.	View View
Fest Reviews 04-May-09 "Alex McMurray made a big impression at Jazz Fest " Times Picayune - Nola.com The crowd that showed up for his Lagniappe Stage set -- in the high hundreds, at least -- caught him off guard. "I'm just not used to playing for so many people," he said. He should be. Read the rest of the article French Quarter Festival, New Orleans Jazz Times This raw, funky street trio, a crowd favorite, delivered a wealth of rich material ranging from McMurray’s sea chanty "The Ballad of Cap’n Sandy" and Danny Barker’s "Palm Court Strut", a naughty N’awlins classic full of sexual innuendo, to covers of Chuck Berry’s "Maybellene" and Cab Calloway’s "The Man From Harlem". Read the rest of the article Threadheads give up-and-coming musicians a boost Los Angeles Times The concept was simple: Fans usually pay for records after they've been made by purchasing them in stores or online. But if the fans put in the money upfront, they could make sure that the records they wanted to hear got made. Read the rest of the article Jazzfest: Behind Threadhead Records New York Times Read the rest of the article	View View View View
NOLAFUgee Interview - 7 Questions with Alex McMurray 10-Apr-09 Local musician Alex McMurray, a NOLAFugees favorite, offers a brief glimpse into the professional grind, the state of the city, and why you shouldn't request "Rosy Fingered Dawn" at his shows. 1.) Do you sometimes feel, whether you want to or not, like an elder statesman in the local music scene? Alex: No. Read the rest of the article! (The answers get even better as the question roll on...)	View
Royal Finger Bowl - Review of One Eyed Jacks Show 01-Jul-08 The room was sparked and sparkling and vibrating with 150 to 200 people(near the middle of the first set, McMurray thanked the 14 Fingerbowl fans for bringing a friend). What a great feeling, to be among so many people elated to be where they were and nowhere else. -- LiveNewOreans.com	View
Guano and Nitrates Review - No Quarter Magazine ... "Guano + Nitrates" from the Valparaiso Men's Chorus, featuring the Tin Men. It's an album of traditional shanties. But it is very different from other albums of traditional shanties. It is sung as if by a pub full of drunken rowdies … sung the way sailors would have sung, with no holds barred, cursing and swearing like … well … drunken sailors.	View
The Tin Men and the Valparaiso Men's Chorus Live at Chaz Fest on YouTube	View
Chaz Festival review and video in New Yorker Blog - The New Orleans Journal 11-Jun-07 Great Blog entry and video of the Chaz Festival. Look for the May 11 entry.	View
Interview in Antigravity Magazine - Your New Orleans Music and Culture Alternative 01-Jun-07 Alex McMurray talks sea shanties, The Tin Men, bringing back Royal Fingerbowl, and of course, crumudgeons. - by Jason Songe Link to the June '07 issue pdf download (article page 10)	View
- LiveNewOrleans.com " Tin Men??? They sound exactly like New Orleans sounds in my head." The amount of genres they mix might be unparalleled locally. So, I love them" 10-Apr-07	View
- *Back to New Orleans, Gently* - Tin Men - Mentioned in New York Times Article - 29-Nov-06 - Sounds of Vitality for New Orleans - Cool Audio slide show from New York Times. (Check out slide #8) - 29-Nov-06	View View
- Southern rock downtown and McMurray continues his run - Nola.com - 13-Nov-06	View
- Bob Andrews Interview - talks about working with Alex and Royal Fingerbowl - OffBeat by Alex Rawls 08-Jun-06 related - Bob Andrews - New Orleans Piano	View
- All That Chaz - Review of Chaz Fest 2006 - Best Of New Orleans - 02-May-06 One of the best aspects about the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is the festival that happens outside the Fair Grounds' fences.	View
- Save the Music: Big Easy Musicians Come to Bard for Benefit - Daily Freeman New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, but the city's music lives, something French Quarter regulars Coco Robicheaux and the band Tin Men will demonstrate tonight in a benefit concert at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson	View
- Big Easy Musicians Share Love For Music - Poughkeepsi Journal	View
- Easing Hard Times in the Big Easy - Ulster Publishing Tin Men Headline Jazz Benefit The Tin Men, who have been the recipients of a serious jazz beau buzz, feature Alex McMurray on guitar and vocals, "Washboard" Chaz Leary on percussion and Matt Perrine on the sousaphone, a close relative of the tuba.	View
- Jazz Concert at Bard to Benefit Victims of Hurricane Katrina - TXExtra	View
- Review of Refugee Band Hang at Niagara in NYC - nola.com NYC Helps Out New Orleans. Musician Alex McMurray, who lived in New Orleans until recently relocating to New York, turned his regular Wednesday night gig at Club Niagara over to the "Refugee All-Stars," a rotating cast of New Orleans musicians who have found themselves in the New York area without any gigs.	View
- Reviews of Alex's solo release - Banjaxed McMurray says that Banjaxed, the title of his first solo album, is Irish slang for being "frustrated or stymied via a fuckup, usually involving booze."	View
- Freaks For industry - Tin Men's latest disk reviewed in Gambit Weekly by Alex Rawls - 19-Apr-05	View
- Circle Bar performance review - Live New Orleans by Jason	View
- City Search profile of Alex McMurray - By Kevin Forest Moreau	View
- Profile of Alex and Royal Fingerbowl - CitySearch.com Put On a Happy Face In Royal Fingerbowl's jazz-tinged world, the bleakness of everyday life is leavened with a romantic's sense of optimism	View
- Review of Super Great Music for Modern Lovers - Best of New Orleans Super Great Music for Modern Lovers, is one of the most engaging New Orleans albums in recent memory and an instance of the sum being more than its formidable parts.	View
- Tin Men Review - Mothership Enetertainment Tin Men rose from the ashes of Royal Fingerbowl to become one of New Orleans most interesting and exciting bands...	View
- Alex's Past Life - As a Great Lakes Captain - Alexander McMurray began life as a deckhand on the Erie canal. - As a Private in the War of 1812 - The hardy pioneers of Butler County responded with patriotic promptness to the call for troops when the border was menaced by the British, and a goodly number marched to the field.	View View
- All Music - Tin Men Bio - by Eugeen Chadbourne - All Music - Super Great Music For Modern Lovers Review - by Eugene Chadbourne - All Music - Royal Fingerbowl Bio - by Richard Skelly - All Music - Happy Birthday Sabo Review - by Tomas Schulte - All Music - Greyhound Afternoons Review - by Tim Sheridan	View View View View View
- Alex and Royal Fingerbowl Bio - Boulder Weekly The Big Sleazy. These "Bad Apples" orbit the Faubourg Marigny scene-the fringe of the French Quarter-where classic New Orleans sounds and youthful invention mix in a mumbo gumbo of funk, jazz, R&B and blues	View
- Royal Fingerbowl review - Syracuse New Times "There's a lot of characters and weirdoes around New Orleans. Nobody has jobs, so people tend to just hang around a lot more. It's not the richest town in the world, so you have a lot of desperate people just wandering around." --Royal Fingerbowl songwriter Alex McMurray	View
- Alex sits in with "Iris May Tango" - Review of show - Live New Orleans Alex McMurray filled in for guitarist Rene Dufourc, ... Hopefully, McMurray will be a permanent addition.	View
- Tin Men - Freaks for Industry review - Off Beat Magazine Only in New Orleans could an album featuring jazz guitar, washboard, and tuba—and those instruments only, save for an occasional short-order cook’s “order up!” bell—be most notable for its songwriting	View
- Royal Fingerbowl Greyhound Afternoon review - SFGate Alex McMurray is one of the weirder, more inspired musicians in New Orleans, and that's saying plenty. His group, Royal Fingerbowl, makes rattletrap music that sounds so much like it's going to fall apart that it couldn't possibly do anything but fall together beautifully.	View
- TIn Men - Super Great Music For Modern Lovers review - New Haven Advocate "If you thought the concept of upbeat pop songs about abject depression was created by Nirvana in the 1990s, listen to the roots-junk "acoustic country blues" trio Tin Men pump out Rogers & Hart's comic anthem of the Great Depression, "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum Again," on washboard, guitar and sousaphone."	View
- Royal Fingerbowl - Greyhound Afternoon review - Boulder Weekly "From the grindingly bluesy "Fine-Ass Chemise" to the plaintive, down home "Echoes in My Mind" and "Long, Tall, Cool," Royal Fingerbowl's latest boils over with everything bluesy and in between."	View
- Royal Fingerbowl - Skippers Smokehouse review - Groovewell.com McMurray, a New Jersey native and 13-year resident of the Crescent City, may come off as a boozy, degenerate goofball, the very definition of a class clown gone dissolute, a cut-up given to nonstop drinking and smoking as he crawls his way across the nightscape. But that might not explain the resonance of the quirky cast of characters he's created, or the musical appeal of the eclectic settings given to his collection of story songs, given life by a singer variously reminiscent of Tom Waits and Louis Armstrong. McMurray wields a mean Gibson ES 335, too.	View
- Tin Men Review - Where Yat "The classified ad would read something like this: Wanted – a loving home for popular two-year-old guitar, washboard and tuba trio. Must be capable of sustaining crowds of hip, involved music listeners. Prefers to reside on Frenchman or Esplanade in the Fauburg Marigny. Chicken tacos essential; stage optional."	View

Alex McMurray makes a splash with his 'Cannonball' CD

Alex McMurray is everywhere... But many fans first discovered McMurray April 30. On the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival's Lagniappe Stage, he performed to the largest crowd of his career. Reviews were across-the-board ecstatic.