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John Swenson Reviews "I Will Never Be Alone In This Land" for Stereophile Magazine
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...
John Swenson Reviews "I Will Never Be Alone In This Land"
ALEX MCMURRAY / Will Never Be Alone In This Land Threadhead THR00051 (CD). 2012. Carlo Nuccio, prod.; Jacques DeLatour By 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...
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OffBeat’s Top 50 Louisiana Albums Of 2012
No. 5 - not bad
Offbeat MagazineIn compiling this rundown, we reviewed, discussed, debated and flat out argued the discs most indicative of Louisiana music in 2012. Read on for our top picks of the year.
NYC date just added
Alex McMurray to perform at 2013 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
Alex is now a twit.
The current wisdom has it that one must be on Twitter. In this business. My "handle" is alexmcmurrayyy (that's "why, why why?).
New CD reviewed in Antigravity Magazine
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I Will Never Be Alone In This Land
Anti Gravity Reviews
AntiGravity MagazineIt's been a couple of years since his last solo album, but...
Alex on the Offbeat Look-Ka PyPy podcast!
LOOK-KA PY PY PODCAST (EP 13)
ALEX MCMURRAY’S INNER VISION
Offbeat Magazine“The people that drive you crazy — the only people that can really drive you nuts are the people that love you,” a soft-spoken Alex McMurray tells host Zachary Young in this week’s episode of OffBeat’s Look-Ka Py Py Podcast. “They’re going to be the ones that help you,” he goes on to reveal.
New CD reviewed on Southern California Public Radio
Read the Offbeat Magazine review of "I Will Never Be Alone In This Land"
I Will Never Be Alone In This Land
The Grand Sultan of St. Claude (and other streets) songwriting, Alex McMurray is among the best songwriters in New Orleans, a man who over the past two decades has written songs that mark our lives, deaths, loves, hates, hangovers, and what comes before and after those excesses. Buy on Amazon His new record is another set of excellent songs that will insinuate themselves subtly into listeners ears, to the point they will become part of all our lexicons.