My favourite antepenultimate track from his third album, Where’d You Hide The Body, and a low key number about drifting through life with no real purpose. The song is a slow, acoustic, bluesy type number about being lost in the back yard which seemed to start for him as a child and continues into adulthood. There’s a nice instrumental around the middle which fits beautifully into the overall context of the song which is synonymous with this artist and his unique type of roots music. He seems quite content to be lost in the back yard until he gets home again. A sort of contradiction in terms but then again James McMurtry writes about obscurity and the mediocrity of life.
My favourite antepenultimate track from his third album, Where’d You Hide The Body, and a low key number about drifting through life with no real purpose. The song is a slow, acoustic, bluesy type number about being lost in the back yard which seemed to start for him as a child and continues into adulthood. There’s a nice instrumental around the middle which fits beautifully into the overall context of the song which is synonymous with this artist and his unique type of roots music. He seems quite content to be lost in the back yard until he gets home again. A sort of contradiction in terms but then again James McMurtry writes about obscurity and the mediocrity of life.