Texas singer/songwriter James McMurtry’s new album, The Black Dog and The Wandering Boy, opens with a menacing, corrosive tune called “Laredo (Small Dark Something).” ...

Just a day after closing out a season’s worth of musical performances, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts has unveiled the lineup for its 2025-26 concert series, which will feature 8 artists from ...

James McMurtry might be best when he’s meanest. His songs are always tough, about gritty people, drunk men, ugly women and people who clean pools and shoot glass insulators off telephone poles in West ...

SANTA CRUZ — James McMurtry knows exactly when the time is right to make a new album: When the tours start winding down, that is when he gets into the studio. “That’s kind of what drives it nowadays,” ...

FARMER CITY - A diverse array of roots music performers, ranging from alternative country to hillbilly swing, have been booked at area venues for Farmer City radio station WWHP-FM's 2008 concert ...

Concert promoter TempleLive, which acquired the Athenaeum in 2024, has canceled shows at the venue, as well as in other markets including Cleveland; Peoria, Illinois; Fort Smith, Arkansas; and Wichita ...