Name: The Graceless Age
Brand: John Murry

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Bonus disc: No

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rwxcd104

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2013-05-02

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Supplier GB

The Orchard

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Standard:20

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5051083070201

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2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

John Murry

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Singer Songwriter

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John Murry is an American singer and songwriter known for his soulful and introspective music. With a unique blend of folk, rock, and Americana influences, Murry has captivated audiences with his heartfelt lyrics and haunting melodies.
Inspired by artists such as Simone Felice, Richmond Fontaine, and Willard Grant Conspiracy, Murry's music explores themes of love, loss, and redemption. His powerful vocals combined with his raw storytelling ability create a deeply emotional experience for listeners.
Murry has been compared to other talented musicians like Jesse Malin, James Yorkston, The Delines, Joe Henry, Lambchop, Peter Bruntnell,and Bob Frank. With a discography that includes collaborations with Chuck Prophet,Dan Stuart,and Mark Eitzel,Murry has established himself as a respected figure in the music industry.

A survivor's tale of savage misadventure recounted by an uncompromising, compelling southern voice surfacing from a melange of layered guitars, strings, voices, and electronics. John Murry began recording 'The Graceless Age' (co-produced with Tim Mooney and Kevin Cubbins) four years ago in San Francisco. He took the tapes to Memphis and back again, adding layers of sound as thick as San Francisco fog and Mississippi mud. It's a big sound at times - back-up singers, panoramic guitar noise, sweet piano melodies, an orchestra of strings, bells, horns... but no matter how ethereal or expansive, at the heart of each song is something simple maybe written on an acoustic guitar or upright piano about loss and solitude and bad screwing-up, not always with a guilty conscience. songs written in words 'blood red as mississippi clay'. They may be crafted but they're soul-wrenchingly emotive, to the point of exploring and revisiting a personal cavalry most of the seeming metaphors aren't metaphors, they're literal reporting; the fire happened, so did the ambulance rides. through those layers of sound, the guitars, the electronica, the twisted muzak, you're held by Murry's compelling north Mississippi voice, and you also hear the echoes of his near-kinsman William Faulkner, and the lessons he learned at Junior Kimbrough's juke joint, Jim Dickinson's zebra ranch, in the clubs and bars of memphis. that he took to the city by the bay, down to the mission where he died, was resurrected, and by grace told the tale.

The Graceless Age

Music GB