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Avg: 4.5 (44 ratings)
- Date Released: May 8, 2007
- Genre: Country/Folk
- Label: Music World Productions
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James McMurtry's written plenty of great songs, but he's never made a great album. His character sketches and stories have always rung true, and he's as perceptive a chronicler of the disaffected and alienated as you'll find, but his limited vocal range and sometimes almost-indifferent delivery have made even his best discs, Too Long in the Wasteland and Where'd You Hide the Body a struggle to get through. Live in Aught-Three isn't a great album, but the live setting lets McMurtry and his backing group, the Heartless Bastards, breathe real rock & roll life into many of these songs for the first time. "Levelland," an account of stasis in the fly-over land, aches with a longing for something, anything, that's more exciting than high-school football games and farms, and "Red Dress" burns with an angry intensity that you'd never have guessed McMurtry had in him. We also get a dose of McMurtry's deadpan humor on a few between-song asides ("I used to think I was an artist. Come to find out I'm a beer salesman") and a hilarious delineation between intellectuals and good ol' boys. In fact, the strongest material here -- and McMurtry's best work overall -- are the ones in which he finds both the humor and the pathos in quirky, nasty characters like the ticked-off heir to the worthless farmland of "60 Acres," or the twisted crew at a family reunion in "Choctaw Bingo." If McMurtry's albums haven't caught your attention before, Live in Aught-Three is a perfect opportunity to reassess him.
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| 01. |  |
Saint Mary Of The Woods
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6:46 |
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| 02. | |
Fraulein O.
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3:54 |
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| 03. | |
Red Dress
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4:59 |
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| 04. | |
No More Buffalo
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6:52 |
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| 05. | |
60 Acres
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4:33 |
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| 06. | |
Rachel's Song
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6:02 |
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| 07. | |
Out Here In The Middle
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5:11 |
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| 08. | |
Choctaw Bingo
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8:47 |
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| 09. | |
Lights Of Cheyenne
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6:38 |
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| 10. | |
Levelland
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5:37 |
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| 11. | |
Max's Theorem
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1:41 |
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| 12. | |
I'm Not From Here
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5:07 |
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| 13. | |
Too Long In The Wasteland
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7:55 |
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| 14. | |
Rex's Blues
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3:46 |
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14 Total Tracks, 77:48 Total Length
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