Alex Plays Joe's Pub NYC
New Tin Men CD in the works...
California Bound
hey everyone i will be in californie the next 10 days. here's the dates...
thurs 8/2 the Roundup Saloon in Lafayette, CA 9-1
Mon 8/6 Mojo Bicycle Shop San Francisco 6-9
Fri 8/10 Shanachie Pub Willits, CA
hope to see you there...
GOING UP NORTH TO PUT THE WORD IN THE STREETS...
Next week I'll be going up to Oshkosh, WI for the annual pilgrimage. Also Chicago on July 14 at a place called Martyrs' On Lincoln with Papa Grows Funk and Davis Rogan. Should be fun.
This weekend (July 7 and 8) I'll be in Ottawa with Lynn Drury at the Ottawa Blues Festival, and also playing at a place called the rainbow...my Canuck blood is rising...
Another Jazz fest
Well goddamn…It's been a few years now without a diary update and I have no excuses or apologies. Suffice it to say it just wasn't in the cards. The past 2 years have been a non-stop shit-fight and make no mistake. Mr. Sanchez likes to quote the great Louis Armstrong who always remembered to remind folks that all he wanted to do was keep his little "hustle" going. Well, the Jazz Fest has grown some real time-fangs for Yours Truly and on this Monday After Jazz Fest I can safely say I feel like I've gone 185 rounds with Sonny Liston. Which is debatable, I'm sure, but while I can sit here and listen to the dust settle outside my window and hear the tanker trucks pierce the night as they fly down Saint Claude, and feel my sacral plate recline into this chair and the whiskey loosen my typing fingers, and hear the air conditioner whine for the first time this year up in the bedroom where...
Alex Band Happening Now!
Hey kids--Alex with a band--what could be better, right?? Well here are 4 great opportunites to hear just that.
Friday June 1 at Chickie Wah Wah 8pm. With Carlo, Matt and Bill.
Saturday June 2 at Tip's opening for Meschiya Lake. 10pm With Bill Malchow and Harry Hardin.
Friday June 8 at Circle Bar. With Joe Cabral, Brian Coogan and Carlo Nuccio. Oh yeah!
Friday June 15 at Chickie Wah Wah 8pm. With Carlo, Matt and Bill.
NEW VALPARAISO MEN'S CHORUS CD "THE STRAITS OF SAINT CLAUDE" IS HERE...
NEEEWWW YOOOORRRKK CIIITTAAAAAYYYY!!!!!!!
New CD In The Works
I'll be going in the studio in December to work on a new Alex CD. We'll be doing it here in New Orleans with local musicians. Just like the last time the Threadheads are helping out. Here is a link to the page on their website about the project. If you want to bring hot food to the studio just drop an email and we can discuss the particular dietary requirements of the musicians and the studio staff.
http://www.threadheadrecords.com/2011/11/18/alex-mcmurray-project-ii/
VooDoo this weekend...
What Else is New
"The Day After Mardi Gras Day" - on HBO's Treme
Last nights episode of HBO's "Treme" featured Alex's composition "The Day After Mardi Gras Day" in the closing credits. Congrats to Alex!
You can purchase mp3's of the tune here: Amazon Or ITunes
Or better yet buy the whole "Banjaxed CD".
Threadhead Thursday on NPR
Jazz Fest review in Huffington Post
Alex McMurray Jazz Feest Schedule
Alex McMurray Jazz Fest Schedule
Wed 4/27 Tin Men @ DBA 7-9
Thurs 4/28 Alex McMurray Band at City Park Botanical Garden
(Threadhead Thursday) 8
Alex McMurray solo Saturn Bar 10
Fri 4/29 Happy Talk Band Jazz Fest Lagniappe Stage 1:50-2:50
Paul Sanchez & Rolling Road Show Chickie Wah Wah 8-10
Sat 4/30 Sunflower City Ogden Museum 8:30 (opening for Marcia Ball)
Tin Men at Le Bon Temps 11
Sun 5/1 Tom Paines at Euclid Records 4pm
Mon 5/2 Tin men @ DBA 8-10
Tues 5/3 Threadhead Patry Mardi Gras World East Bank 12 noon
Saucefest Hi Ho Lounge sometime btw 10 and 2am
Wed 5/4 Chazfest noon-10 more info HERE
Thurs 5/5 LynnDrury Louisiana Music Factory 7pm
solo show with special guests Saturn Bar 9
Fri 5/6 Alex McMurray Band Jazz Fest Lagniappe Stage 4:20-5:20
Alex McMurray Band Le Bon Temps 10
Sat 5/7 Paul Sanchez & Rolling...
Video of "The People Say Project" interview 2/22/2011 Alex McMurray w/Truth Universal
Alex's top 10 mix tape for the online NOLA Defender
They recently asked me to do a little top 10 list of songs with commentary and youtube links. I got it together with relative degrees of success. I couldn't find Bobby Short's "I Like The Likes Of You" on youtube, but was feeling too sick to rewrite it and there was a deadline. instead there is a great "Charlie" fragrance commercial from the late 70s featuring Bobby Short. "I like the Likes of You" by Mr. Short is available on itunes.
My tastes were pretty pedestrian coming up. Still are.
1. "Hammond Song" The Roches
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA-U5H4VoX8
This has been my favorite record almost since the first time I heard it in the Fall of 1986 in the middle of the night stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic at midnight on the Connecticut Turnpike. At the time I was a devotee of a record by a west coast a-cappella group called The Bobs. In the most teenage of ways, there was...
Saturn Bar - Theatre of The Damned Review
Saturn Bar - Theatre of The Damned Review -
31-Jan-11 www.gonola.com
I have a new celebrity crush. I just added Alex McMurray to the top of my list...
Saturn Bar - Theatre of The Damned Review
I have a new celebrity crush. I just added Alex McMurray to the top of my list...