James L. McMurtry, along with his Austin-based band,
James McMurtry & The Heartless Bastards, is a self-described "rock & roots" guitarist and singer-songwriter, drawing on elements of
alt-country,
folk and old-fashioned
texas rock. The son of novelist Larry McMurtry, James was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1962, and grew up in Virginia. James McMurtry's seventh studio album,
Childish Things, was released on Compadre Records in the fall of 2005. As writer L.E.