Now Playing on the iPod: Crazy Wind
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86999)
United States
April 7, 2016 10:05pm CST
A few days ago @TheHorse mentioned James McMurtry. I just had to play this song. It's among my favorite songs of the 80s.
James McMurtry is the son of Lonesome Dove and Terms of Endearment author Larry McMurtry. The writing quality runs in the family, as this great song shows. The way he describes the scene in this song is amazing. (I'm a sucker for a songwriter who details things.) "You fight off his fumbling hands with daggers in your eyes." Wow. My favorite line is near the end, when the woman decides to free herself from this relationship: "Nobody sees you passing in the fury of your flight, you'll see them later some other day, self-preservation, what can you say." Double wow.
As with so many other great songwriters, McMurtry is a legend in the Americana or singer/songwriter world but is widely ignored by the mainstream. That's the mainstream's loss.
Crazy Wind
Written by James McMurtry
Performed by James McMurtry
From Too Long in the Wasteland, 1989
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@teamfreak16 (43717)
• Denver, Colorado
8 Apr 16
Nice. That is a well-written song. It's not "Red Solo Cup," but what is? (My girlfriend will kill me if she finds out I wrote that sentence.)
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@FourWalls (86999)
• United States
8 Apr 16
I won't tell. My scruples prohibit me from using such profanity as "R*d S**o C*p." 1 person likes this
@iamshane487 (1138)
• Manila, Philippines
8 Apr 16
I don't even know this song writer.
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@FourWalls (86999)
• United States
8 Apr 16
Most don't. He's not a "superstar" because his music isn't mainstream.
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@TheHorse (238429)
• Walnut Creek, California
8 Apr 16
My favorite McMurtry songs are probably Ruby and Carlos and Hurricane party. But they're long enough that you really have listen. I like this one because it's short and to the point.
Beautiful piece of prose from a master Singer-Songwriter.
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