James Mcmurtry - It Had to Happen

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The song "12 O'Clock Whistle" plays like a great fiction set to a driving ryhthm, as a soulful acoustic melody walks us through a grandchild's day with his parents. There are multiple characters and the dialogue is strikingly authentic: "And granny was hanging up wash / talking acorss the fence / neighbor lady nodded like it all made sense / 'She's just gonna stay with him till the kids are grown / fetch me that clothespin off up the ground would you hon'"

McMurtry's sense of himself and where he's from are overshadowed only by his sense of who we are, good and bad, right or wrong. I don't know the right label for his music, so I'll use one that makes sense: humbling.

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