"First degree tired from the
last leg of the tour"
Atlanta
photo by Emily
Giffin
photo
by Clark Virden
Birmingham,
AL
photo by Ken White
Floores
photo
by Bruce Friedman
The
Jewish Mother
in Virginia Beach
photo
by Miguel Marvel
Atlanta
photo
by Jules Farthing
Links: Domestic
and Foreign All
of our links are associated with the efforts of friends
and acquaintances to promote the spirit of independent
music.
Domestic Links
Continental
Club "The granddaddy of all
local music venues, the Continental Club has enjoyed a
coast-to-coast reputation as the premiere club for live
music in Austin since 1957."
High
Road Touring - High Road Touring is a booking agency opened by Frank
Riley in February of 2001. This
is McMurtry's booking agency. If
you visit the site you'll find a listing of a wide array
of talented artists.The site provides the earliest confirmed
listings of concerts for its artists, as well as bios
and booking availability.
High Road Touring | 751
Bridgeway, 3rd Floor
Sausalito, CA 94965
Phone: (415) 332-9292 | Fax: (415) 332-4692 www.highroadtouring.com
KPIG.com The first radio station in the world to webcast their audio (webcasting
continuously since 8/2/95). Located in Freedom, California,
it is also one of the few stations with a true program
director. "Real DJ's pick out the music". They
regularly play McMurtry's music
and have hosted live performances /interviews with James.
Take a look at the playlist on their website!
Cary Baker operates the music PR firm conqueroo. Cary has worked in the music PR field for 25 years.
How many 28-year-old music promoters can claim 20 years of experience in the music industry? Jenni Finlay may not be in a class by herself, but it certainly doesn't take long to call the roll. Jenni operates the Sugarland-based Jenni Finlay Promotions.
www.lefsetz.com
"Bob
Lefsetz, Santa Monica-based industry legend, is the
author of the e-mail newsletter, 'The Lefsetz Letter'.
Famous for being beholden to no one, and speaking the
truth, Lefsetz addresses the issues that are at the
core of the music business: downloading, copy protection,
pricing and the music itself."
If
you really care about what's up with this crazy music
industry of ours, Visit, Subscribe
and Get Your Dander Up!
AmericanaRoots.com
-"Building
a community devoted to all types of Americana Music."
Includes artist and industry links, cd reviews, top Roots
charts and forum.
Austin
Americana-
a site dedicated to the Austin
and Central Texas music scene. The visitor can sign up
for "Musicalternatives" an email newsletter
of gig dates
and album reviews.
Congressman
Bernie Sanders of Vermont is
using "We Can't Make it Here" in his Senate
campaign. He is currently the only Independent member
of the House of Representatives.
Austin
City Limits-chronicle
of the public radio show. This link points to the description
of the program McMurtry appeared on and is accompanied
by a brief description of the artist and the setlist for
that show.
"Demelza
House Children's Hospice adds life to days when days
cannot be added to life."
www.demelzahouse.org/
- The only children's residential hospice in Kent, East
Sussex and South London providing a wide range of services
to life-limited children.
Children's
hospices support children and young people who are expected
to die before reaching adulthood, and their families.
Due to the hereditary nature of many of the children's
illnesses, some families may have more than one affected
child. In many cases there is no cure. In others, treatment
has been tried but failed and the focus has transferred
from active to palliative care.
Children's
hospices provide the necessary short breaks and a range
of services benefiting the children and young people
themselves and their wider
family, which are simply not available elsewhere.
www.savecamp.com
Camp
Anokijig was saved!!! Read
the story
They are still deeply in debt, so any donations are
appreciated. The "save the camp" effort was
an attempt to prevent a pristine area of American woodlands
from being sold and broken up for development. The camp
is dedicated to enhancing outdoor talents such as sailing
skills & horseback riding. Children from all over
the world attend. Check it out for your kids www.anokijig.com!
"James'
songs have always pulled me in. His songs about the
wide open spaces of this country - especially No More
Buffalos get to the heart of a growing trend toward
development! For that reason, I am involved in a YMCA
camp called Camp Anokijig. " ~Jodi Kay
bandbstudios.com
-
B&B Studios: REALLY fine commercial photography of
artists of similar genre
bikerbaradio.com
- BikerBar Radio™
offers streaming MP3 audio of a unique nature. It offers
music that you would almost never hear on "normal"
radio.
"My
goal is to play music that I would like to hear when riding
a 1000 mile day on my harley. Music to keep me company
as the miles float by. Music to keep my feet tapping on
the pegs. Music to complement the pictures of what I see
"on the road".
Craig
Seth - who
"loves
the Man as much as I do"—
major contributor of photographs
for this site. This link is to NEXUS,
of which Craig has been a member for
a record number of years. Check 'em out!
maximum
solo acoustic
michael eck
michaeleck.com
- if you like
James during his purely acoustic years, you might like
this gentleman—try
the sound sample on Michael's home page
This
site displays images made on glass. The 150 year-old
process has been revitalized by several fine artists
and Quinn Jacobson is one of them. Projects include
blue-collar workers and musicians.
KRCL's
RootsnBlues.org "Roots
n' Blues on KRCL is your afternoon excursion into the
roots of American music. Blues, soul, country, folk, cajun,
early rhythm and blues, and lots more."
"I wanted to create a place where if you're a fan
of Texas music, you can go and listen to listen to new
music, find out about new artists and then tell other
people what you think."
founder:
Chad Raney
our
gracious photo gallery web host, offering a myraid on
online solutions for business
Traffic
from Abroad: Thanks
to Bob Harris
We are always appreciative of the radio airplay we receive
here in the US. Now we'd like to say CHEERS to a UK
station from which we've gleaned a good block of site
traffic:. Bob Harris
Country (and) Bob's late
night Friday and Saturday programs. They are streamed
simultaneously and are available as Listen Again for
7 days at www.bbc.co.uk/radio2
BBC.co.uk/radio2
has been added to
our list of other radio stations —on the box and
on the web— that spin McMurtry tunes: see our Radio/Web
page. .
the
webmaster would like to extend Special
Thanks to
those below
for providing content, inspiration and dedication (to fine tunes)
to the late, dearly loved
Lee Tindall President and CEO
James McMurtry, one damn fine
singer-songerwriter club | Yahoo Groups (I hope you found what we couldn't give
ya, buddy)
Oh yes, and how could I forget? Thank You, James
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A note from the webmaster.
Who is the Buddha, anyway? The Buddha, Siddhartha
Gotama, was born about 600 BC, is credited with formulating
the Buddhist religion. For a Westerner to understand the man
and the religion he developed, one must understand that The
Buddha was just that — a man, not a god or kin to a god.
The Buddha lived in India over 2500 years ago in what is now
Nepal. As a young man living in turbulent times, he became
very obsessed with the difficulty of the human condition.
In particular, the unavoidable fact that nothing remains the
same - that everyone regardless of wealth or stature is subject
to old age, death, and personal loss.
Simply stated, everything changes; it's inevitable.
Of course, you've heard that before. Not a new concept, especially
within religious circles. The difference to the Buddha being
that there is no more important truth in life. He built his
entire religion around it. He observed how much energy we
expend swimming upstream against the rapids of change. It
is not our preferences but our attachment to our preferences
that are our undoing.
He prescribed a path to follow in order to,
well, pace your self, so to speak. Or better yet, to leave
yourself behind. It was his belief that in following the path,
his level of spiritualism was attainable by all and that every
human being had the potential for attaining inner peace. But
the path is a whole other topic — 27 volumes worth in
fact —a subject for some other platform.
My thanks here are given to the Buddha who
expressed that truth so coherently. In doing so, making enough
sense out the chaos of every day for me to maintain the energy
to devote to this site.
In regard to what relation this all has to
with the substance of this site, I find that no one captures
the human condition of attachment as eloquently, as precisely,
and without judgement as does Mr. McMurtry.
