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Before Tampa show, James McMurtry recalls the best gig he ever saw

Johnny Copeland showed him screamin’ solos and smooth string changes.

For his latest album The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy, the 63-year-old singer-songwriter leaned on some prominent people from his past. The album title alone came from a hallucination his Pulitzer Prizer-winning father Larry—who gave James his first guitar as a boy—had when he was living with dementia.

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