James McMurtry, Childish Things - 59m 31s

Tracks & Durations

1. See the Elephant	4:25
2. Childish Things	4:36
3. We Can't Make It Here	7:07
4. Ole Slew Foot	4:36
5. Bad Enough	4:20
6. Restless	3:55
7. Memorial Day	4:18
8. Six-Year Drought	5:14
9. The Old Part Of Town	5:19
10. Charlemagne's Home Town	5:54
11. Pocatello	3:04
12. Holiday	6:35

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Review

Within the song cycle of innocence and experience that is Childish Things, James McMurtry continues to explore musical territory between rock and a hard place. The social commentary of the relentlessly bleak "We Can't Make It Here" and "Six-Year Drought" is more pointed than ever, while the arrangements throughout are as taut, muscular and slap-in-the-face direct as the songs. While the opening "See the Elephant," the title cut, and "Memorial Day" evoke a younger person's sense of wonder, the mortal lessons have plainly taken their toll by the closing "Holiday." Along the way, highlights range from the accordion-laced yearning of "Charlemagne's Home Town" to the Chuck Berry-style, guitar-driven rock of "The Old Part of Town" to a stirring duet with Joe Ely on "Old Slew Foot." With his terse, cut-to-the-bone artistry, McMurtry never wastes a word or a note. --Don McLeese

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