James McMurtry and his band performing "Choctaw Bingo" in Amsterdam. Ian McLagan is joining them on keyboards. This performance is featured on the bonus DVD for McMurtry's album, Live in Europe.
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@tcprodriver3 ай бұрын
The greatest run on sentence in the history of the English language!
@goofycarp17 күн бұрын
Well, you know his dad is a novelist...and a damn good one, too !!
@ernburn37382 ай бұрын
Here is another guy that gets overlooked by all the critics... he's a great songwriter and gets down on that guitar of his. The guys in the band are very talented as well. If you get a chance to go see these guys, do so! 😊
@wmthompson2Ай бұрын
Spot On assessment
@PFB1994 Жыл бұрын
This has to be a true story, no way anyone could make up a story like this.
@joefrizell5868 Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of my family except the names were changed to protect the guilty.
@thecathancegroup Жыл бұрын
No one could make it up, but it makes you think of family relations. that's the genius of his song.
@c.j.swonger1650Ай бұрын
You have to be an Okie to understand, LOL
@markriley248 күн бұрын
A movie or mini series!
@stevethrendyle840611 жыл бұрын
Hands down, the greatest story song of all time. I'd have been thrilled to write a single stanza of this song.
@slimeylimey3 жыл бұрын
Amen brother
@larryitsbloat9953 жыл бұрын
I'm a poet and I play a mean harmonica. I'm also a writer of thriller novels. I humbly bow down to my superior storytellers. James McMurtry and his daddy are two of them.
@douglhill2 жыл бұрын
Not sure where you are in the world but I'm right here in central Oklahoma and this song is Okie As Fuck.
@dougbratton92282 жыл бұрын
Concur 100.
@mattzaske2 жыл бұрын
Arlo Guthrie wept when he heard this after thinking he'd told a purty good story about Alice and her restaurant...
@1111mjon14 жыл бұрын
James isn't country, this is (Texas) AmericanA in it's purist form. He is unique and thats the biggest complement an artist can get. I can't get enough... well never tire of, McMurtry.
@jwg02787 жыл бұрын
you know you are a Okie when this song makes perfect sense
@jtshutzhund67544 жыл бұрын
And here I thought if you knew every place he mentions you were an Okie..and here I'm gonna break my rule and travel more than 50 miles east or west of Mudcreek..
@lurk79674 жыл бұрын
@@jtshutzhund6754 I guess I'm just a weird Canadian then. Probably belong down there anyways
@timcornell89753 жыл бұрын
Folks from WV are laughing....
@mechcavandy9863 жыл бұрын
I’m a West Arkie. We tried but didn’t make it that far west. 🤷🏼♂️
@CliffDHall693 жыл бұрын
Or if your from western AR. Or Arklahoma as some of us call it.
@michaelh59674 жыл бұрын
The first time I heard this song all I could think was "this should be an Emmy award winning HBO series"
@ericpeabody15552 жыл бұрын
Seriously. But maybe on FX or Hulu these days. Too bad his dad didn't do a treatment. he had the connections! Could have been "Lonesome Druggie" :)
@stephengrout82014 жыл бұрын
The incomparable James McMurtry, an American treasure.
@Mrbeahz16 ай бұрын
I was going to post that, an American Treasure!
@chefbrett22695 ай бұрын
YEE YEE! Amen brother!
@Michael9-23-152 ай бұрын
These guys kick A$$. I just heard about them all from a friend today, and I can't wait to hear more of their work.
@EugeneTothАй бұрын
Amazing! Great musicians! Great story! James' guitar playing and voice are so unique.
@maryannbroadus8802 жыл бұрын
First heard this on WEVL, an Indie FM station in Memphis; Damn !! Had to pull over into a convenience store pkg. lot to fully dig the lyrics, I was totally knocked out, now a fan for life...the keyboard dude on this is F'in Tight Tight Tight !! McMurtry for life...
@bobm9166 ай бұрын
in the '70s yes 1970s, the best music being played was on the college stations. 5 years into FM radio (1972), the FM stations were forming playlists, the only way to hear up and coming bands was on the college stations. I was lucky to live in NJ outside NYC so, besides the vibrant live music scene, WSOU and WFMU and WFUV were free to play whatever they wanted, which led me to seeing Springsteen right after he released The Wild The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle where there were maybe 2000 people there.
@homerenovationandrepairthe7954 Жыл бұрын
Found this a year ago and am hooked. The guy is a genius in an Americana music world lacking this kind of wrtiting and performing!
@c.e.anderson5587 ай бұрын
Someone once asked how he got so good at guitar and he said he never had money to pay a guitar player and he wasn't making much money so he had to learn himself He is GREAT on electric and acoustic, 12 string as well.
@paulelliott322010 жыл бұрын
He is a genius writer This song is awesome
@christopherliston23712 жыл бұрын
Totally agree, runs in the Family his Old Man wrote Lonesome Dove.
@paulelliott32202 жыл бұрын
@@christopherliston2371 His Dad was an awesome writer - Lonesome Dove a stone cold classic and plenty of other great ones too James is releasing wonderful album after album too … that talent for writing falls very short from the tree sometimes
@mike670067009 жыл бұрын
James McMurtry and J.J Cale..........Two of the Greatest.
@thebourbonscene8452 ай бұрын
Agreed! Cale is such an underrated artist. He was a musicians musician
@nathanhenfling34734 жыл бұрын
This dude is hitting it on the head with his knowledge on the regions of this great country!
@morganjbearden1427 Жыл бұрын
Yes. Sense of place is tops!
@danielosullivan3110 Жыл бұрын
Real good people are in every corner. Stop watching the news. Start making friends 🌄
@MArnoldTN13 жыл бұрын
IAN! Miss my friend so much.
@jaimalfortner17466 жыл бұрын
This is America at this very moment. A big land with a lot of room for freedom of music and thought. Were Americans but not always the same. God bless this country.
@downhill24012 жыл бұрын
I've been to most of the places he mentions in this song. He's highly under-rated. He'a one of my top-ten for sure.
@timcornell89753 жыл бұрын
Nah, brah. Highly respected among his peers. Underrated is over used. Just cause he isn't a household name doesn't mean he's underappreciated.
@kevinriser92662 жыл бұрын
Me too
@poorthing Жыл бұрын
Stephen King has this on his top 10 sing list
@merkmuir4 жыл бұрын
This song should in a museum -- an open air one.
@hermanmunster7142 ай бұрын
The state song for all the Red States in the Union.
@SteveRyan19652 жыл бұрын
What in tarnation did I just listen to? Had me dancin' with my dog all around the front room. We're second cousins, but I don't mind.
@sylviequinn21176 жыл бұрын
Just saw him open for Jason Isbell a few weeks ago, Can't believe he's been under my radar all these years. I've been binge listening since then and bought all his cds. Not a bad song among them.
@gscherer19695 жыл бұрын
No he don't write bad ones
@iculus33335 жыл бұрын
Where’s you hide the body is one of the best albums cover to cover ever
@craigtrexler81565 жыл бұрын
under your radar, you need to get out more!
@adriaticseaeyes4 жыл бұрын
He should NOT be opening for Isbell..damn that's a fucking crime
@ELCinDC3 жыл бұрын
I wish I was with you, two years ago, before we were all wearing masks to prevent the plague, and binge listening Choctaw Bingo.
@stewartmcdowall22852 жыл бұрын
Please note the man on the keys.......a fucking 60's legend!!!
@timcornell89753 жыл бұрын
Only song EVER....to include a lyric about Badass Hebrews...✡🕶✊
@actualturtle24213 жыл бұрын
Bc he's the only songwriterr brave enough to mention them by name lol
@hemulik.81172 жыл бұрын
Such incredible live performance.. and wow... what a story and what a fun jam this is.. I have no idea how many times I have watched this but it is more than 20... or 30... no counting.. this is just so brilliant and entertaining musicks :)
@hughdunnit318810 жыл бұрын
James is the best thing performing presently....and this is his signature song....refreshing listening to somebody this good that;s smart...writes and performs his own stuff and plays a pretty damn good guitar....all that plus a social conscience What the hell else is there? I SAY!
@tekosinski8 жыл бұрын
Live? You should hear the Subdudes live. Different groove, but just as straight forward.
@clinttaylor15965 жыл бұрын
Ray Wylie Hubbard’s song
@clinttaylor15965 жыл бұрын
Hugh Dunnit: He writes tons of songs. Hell, he even wrote a song for Robert Earl Keen, one of the best song writers ever, but did not write this one. If you like singer/song writers with a social conscious, check out: Hayes Carll, Robert Earl Keen, Cody Canada, Ray Wylie Hubbard and Steve Earl. James is great. I’m a huge fan of “Lights of Cheyenne” “We Can’t Make it Here Anymore” (talk about social conscious about the state of manufacturing in America...speaking of...we can’t even make Meth here anymore. Hah!)
@kelliesalome11153 жыл бұрын
@@clinttaylor1596 James absolutely did write Choctaw Bingo. RWH covered it, just like REK covered Levelland and Out Here in the Middle.
@kimandrew30953 жыл бұрын
Listen to this tune live on a loop while I ride my bike.The guy is unique and talented.Come to LA someday
@larryitsbloat9952 жыл бұрын
The coolest makeup of a band, the damndest lyrics ever, and the heaviest backup singer you could ask for and get.
@PaulGumerman14 жыл бұрын
Funniest song I've heard in a long time. Heard it on XM one day and couldn't quite believe my ears. ;)
@codynova6 жыл бұрын
I'm from Baxter Springs and just learned of this song recently when reading the Baxter Springs wikipedia page. This makes me insanely nostalgic, totally reminds me of my family and home - what a great song. I lost it when he mentioned the Vinita McDonalds. I love Cherokee country.
@ryandatkinson6 жыл бұрын
Northern Cherokee County childhood here. Just south of Pittsburg, but went to school in Columbus. I remember the first time I heard this song and catching the Vinita reference and then going crazy when he gave a shout-out to the old Romantic Delights sign.
@josephsmith797010 ай бұрын
Is there a pair of Rolling Stones lips that burn all night really there, that everyone can see them?
@shotgunone14 жыл бұрын
I've had the privilege of seeing him twice now in Charlotte Nc!! He's an amazing guitarist especially on the 12 string!!
@mariai95493 жыл бұрын
Much better lyricist/songwriter than guitar player.
@Mrbeahz16 ай бұрын
@@mariai9549 As good a guitarist as he is a singer/songwriter.
@paulharvey64238 жыл бұрын
Recorded at The Paradiso, Amsterdam in 2009, originally intended for a radio broadcast for Nps radio 6, I was the radio producer along with sound engineer Ronald Trijber on this particular session. FAB Channel tapped our audio feed and the record company issued this as a bonus DVD
@chuckrrose2 жыл бұрын
Guitar n keys sound is great
@ericpeabody15552 жыл бұрын
Thank you for capturing this performance!!!
@paulharvey64232 жыл бұрын
@@ericpeabody1555 thx Eric was a great session...the guy is such an innovative and image-laden songwriter
@jorm2528 Жыл бұрын
And we all thank you.
@JS-ti8ny2 ай бұрын
…and They’ll be coming down from Kansas ..And from West Arkansas… It’ll be one great big ol party.. Like you never saw
@SH-dp5vz2 жыл бұрын
Appreciate everything James puts out there...real talent comes easy for him...what a great song...
@williamhenshaw8650 Жыл бұрын
I told a guitar player friend of mine years ago that country music would change and more people our age, late 30s at the time, would become interested in it. He agreed and we started a band. Skiimmed through all of our albums to find songs that were acceptable to a country audience and a rock audience at the same time. We played a few bars where we werre damned near kicked out and played a few others where we were cfonsidered to be the best band ever. Pretty strange. T he band didn't last all that long and I found myself livin in Georgia. While down south I discovered McMurtry on XM radio, knew this is where the revolution was going to start. Also got reconnected to Ray Wiley Hubbard, he was always too far left for that Nashville crowd. Short ending, I'm just glad to see that country met rock and became the kick ass music it is today Nashville sucks, Austin rocks!
@MrBuffalo195013 жыл бұрын
James is always a featured artist on KPIG here in Calif. Great stuff!!
@Jon-xl6hh Жыл бұрын
first heard it on kpig, fecepost to fencepost
@frickpoo66447 жыл бұрын
this just gets better the 3rd time listening to it'
@sheilaiam213 жыл бұрын
How do they remember all those words??? Fantastic!
@jcorkable Жыл бұрын
I remember all the words, but to be fair I’ve probably listened to it more times than he’s played it live…
@dillonyng20710 жыл бұрын
I saw James perform @ the downtown waterfront in Bangor, Maine. I wish McLagan was there, he was killin' it on the keyboard in this performance.
@rebeccamcfalls6813 жыл бұрын
Same. Also saw him at the Grand in Ellsworth. Great shows!
@marthastonerboner2 жыл бұрын
This is the ultimate performance.
@kurtfoulke51303 жыл бұрын
Gonna have us a time ! Great song - killer band
@whiskey6string11 ай бұрын
When I listen to this song, sondo my neighbors.
@skydog7574 ай бұрын
Just discovered this guy this month and went to see him play in Ferndale, MI. Fantastic! I really love this song; there's something about his vocal delivery in this tune that reminds me of Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me".
@jimmccullough5496Ай бұрын
Great cover of the Ray Wylie Hubbard tune.
@poppatoot7 жыл бұрын
He and his daddy - true artists...must be in their genes
@dire8straits3 ай бұрын
The writing came from both his dad and mom. His mom started him on the guitar.
@JC-ip4qp3 жыл бұрын
That keyboard though!!!
@markriley248 күн бұрын
Why hasn’t this song been made into a movie?
@garyhectormusic4989 Жыл бұрын
the man....man kills me all the time...proper legend
@lookin4space14 жыл бұрын
I'm not a big country fan, but I definitely like this band. This is one of my favorite songs. You should check out his other songs.
@thebourbonscene8452 ай бұрын
This isn't country, it's Americana
@waltertalbert14088 жыл бұрын
Badass....what more can be said.
@sherrysilva31934 жыл бұрын
This guy is GREAT. Reminds me of JJ Cale
@rizdog24 жыл бұрын
Better chops, but yes.
@chapmyers92725 ай бұрын
Epic storytelling. Cool quartet version.
@jerryw66996 жыл бұрын
all the lines in this one kill me, today it's the part about the stop at the gunshop.
@overundersidewaysdown2 жыл бұрын
The one they stopped at, to buy a gun made by "badass Hebrews?"
@CliffDHall694 жыл бұрын
He co wrote the song with Ray Wylie Hubbard in the back of a mini van between shows. Ray Wylie told me this.
@kelliesalome11153 жыл бұрын
Ray lied to you.
@CliffDHall693 жыл бұрын
@@kelliesalome1115 anything is possible. But I believe him.
@actualturtle24213 жыл бұрын
I didn't realize Ray had a hand in this. His cover of it is pretty rad tho
@larryitsbloat9953 жыл бұрын
An A-plus backup band. The backup singer is fun to watch, using both bass guitar and vocals. He nails them. Excellent lyrics and storytelling. Is James McMurtry a storyteller? Just like his daddy? Both are perfection on parade.
@geoffreypiltz2713 жыл бұрын
Great rockin' version. Love it.
@m.douglaswray299410 жыл бұрын
Wonderful performance! McLagan just KILLS IT on the keyboard. So sweet it's easy to listen but gets your blood bubbling. McMurtry's voice is superb. - In 2009, Live in Europe was released, capturing The McMurtry Band’s first European tour and extraordinary live set. Along with seasoned band members Ronnie Johnson, Daren Hess, and Tim Holt, the disc features special guests Ian McLagan and Jon Dee Graham. Also, for the first time ever, video of the James McMurtry Band’s live performance is available on the included DVD.
@Pactolus24010 жыл бұрын
Damn man. Gonna have us a time. Jay ******@****
@sethmahnken62782 жыл бұрын
From pittsburg ks. This song makes perfect sense.
@kevinsmith32885 жыл бұрын
He can sure belt out a tune
@HeyCupertino3 жыл бұрын
Immortal groove
@justinnihiser86803 жыл бұрын
It's a great driving song.
@billheuglin989511 жыл бұрын
Cinema/editor/director/sound man, this is an awesome record of a perfromance. Great job. Oh yeah McMurtrey Band, good job. F-ing great tune!
@MichaelSeanHarrell8 жыл бұрын
RIP Ian
@daveinindy5 жыл бұрын
Almost always my favorite show of the year. Loved seeing him in Texas when we lived there ... may have been my imagination - but he may have cracked a smile once or twice during the Texas shows (the Granada in Dallas was my favorite venue to seem 'em). He, Steve Earle, and Neil Young write great music, create great lyrics, and play great guitar. And you can see McMurtry and Earle twenty times for what it costs to catch one of ol' Neil's shows. I've seen them both about that many times. Have yet to catch Neil Young as my brain stops my fingers as I get close to clicking on "purchase now" on his ticketing website. Just can't fathom paying $300 per seat to see ANYONE - unless Lennon and Harrison came back to Earth and reunited with Paul and Ringo.
@jeffriddle72272 жыл бұрын
That's sheer fucking genius...
@nekkidslade11 жыл бұрын
for family dysfunction check out Robert Earl Keen's "Merry Christmas from the Family" !!
@chefbrett22695 ай бұрын
YEE YEE!
@jasonmassey94956 жыл бұрын
well mr. armstrong this is what country music is supposed to sound like
@garycamera14 жыл бұрын
Love that choctaw bingo.
@poorthing Жыл бұрын
One of Stephen Kings top 10 favorite songs
@davidmadison8989 Жыл бұрын
True legend.
@BrapBang13 жыл бұрын
Thats a wild crowd.
@BenSHammonds11 жыл бұрын
songs from my local area :) love this one
@kodybaker122811 жыл бұрын
What a song!! Love it!!
@MrUSSAM4 жыл бұрын
all his songs are "hitssssssssss"
@gotnomilk111 жыл бұрын
"We got justification for wealth, & greed, amber waves of grain, & bathtub speed"
@kbx4kim8 жыл бұрын
sounds like fun people.
@frankmcpave79658 жыл бұрын
That's soooo great!!!
@joshuadowling877810 ай бұрын
Gotdamn. That's Good shit. Roy Buchanan and JJ Cale.
@allenkennedy67484 жыл бұрын
Check out that guitar. He’s playing the discontinued(even at the time of this video) PRS Swamp Ash. Great tone. Go see him if you are able.
@davenaslund64310 жыл бұрын
until you been to oklahoma, much less baxter springs you can, although somewhat, understand what JM is talkin' about As one of my better friends who grew up and went to college in Stillwater said-"The best thing about OK is seein' it in your rear view mirror goin' north or to Arkansas Going SW to Midland, Lubbock, or Odessa ain't no big bargain either Old Mexico beats em all What ever God, bless JM We gonna have us a time Na ahoo ee(chicken in Navajo)
@gordongreninger61097 жыл бұрын
lol now thats no way to talk about baxter springs. ive met the sisters and hes right. to bad the "stones" sign is gone.
@epistte6 жыл бұрын
Going from Oklahoma to Arkansas isn't a cure. I felt like I lost 15 years when I crossed the river from Nashville into Arkansas on I-40. Hot Springs and Little Rock aren't too bad but outside of those cities is a bit too rural for my taste.
@HipsterEatinShark6 жыл бұрын
Born and raised there, and I get every reference. Haha. As for the rearview, I prefer to see it as I head West. Looking pretty rough last time I was there. (And being from Western OK, that's saying a lot: never did look "great").
@sethmahnken62782 жыл бұрын
Born and raised in Pittsburg KS
@larryjbyers11 жыл бұрын
what a great story put to song
@johnrv50110 жыл бұрын
That was awesome!!
@gabbyhayes4561 Жыл бұрын
Great song writing and musician,..asl long you can "Walk thru the rain drops dry as a bone". 😎🇨🇱
@MarkRosengarten14 жыл бұрын
That was TIGHT!
@nancyhoffman45633 жыл бұрын
Really good.
@UltraLiteSpeed19 жыл бұрын
Would Love to see James and his crew in So Cal....
@mngreen5 жыл бұрын
I did. He opened for the Indigo Girls at the Wiltern in L.A. back in the late 80s or early 90s - can't remember which. Very tough crowd for him. Whole house of women in comfortable shoes who didn't want to see some dude up on stage. And one of his band members had been stopped at the border when they were coming back from Canada, as I recall, and they had to leave him behind. Still a great show...
@aztex51943 жыл бұрын
Yer a peein's gotta trip on 'Murican's~! Thanks James!~
@aabb33405 жыл бұрын
This song is an anthem to a great culture. The drugs and incest parts are a little much but hell the whole scene is just reckless abandon. And this live version is awesome, so danceable. I love the lead guitar work. More extensive than in the studio version.
@lillyandruben9 жыл бұрын
Just Awesome
@ikisolde1 Жыл бұрын
Holy shit!
@crs619 Жыл бұрын
I’ve seen the Dead 100 times. Fuck, I saw Warren Zevon. I fucking love this song and it’s top ten in Texas shine don’t sell…. Bang those keys! ROSCO. But he didn’t quite… seriously the best song out of Texas since Stevie Ray Vaughan, and that’s one big ole pistol… made by badass Hebrews. We gonna have us a time. This should be the national anthem. Do some sister twisters till the cows come home. Have us a time.
@johneverett57884 жыл бұрын
We're goin to Oklahoma
@jamescrisp1609 Жыл бұрын
SAW HIM DO THIS SONG AT RHYTHM AND BREWS WAPAKONETA, OHIO.
@harper75095 ай бұрын
You're gonna give it back too
@sundaydriver4496 Жыл бұрын
woooooo
@ericpeabody15552 жыл бұрын
Great version! Sure wish there was video from Ought Eight....
@jayalandavis13 жыл бұрын
We have a winner, in the back! Covered the entire card...!