Songs -- Writing
Found in 364 Collections and/or Records:
1 snapshot labeled “Box Blind, Archer County, 2008”; Promo photo of James McMurtry dated 1987, taken by Kathleen Hudson at Leon Springs Cafe in Leon Springs, TX; 13 B/W photo prints of James McMurtry and band from performances, undated
2 HD floppy discs: “Raid” and “Songs 2” (loose) , undated
Box contains DATs for “Saint Mary of the Woods,” CD safety mixes for “Live in Aught-Three,” CD mixes for “Childish Things,” and audio reel from 1987 “Homeless Project” (“James’ first paid recording project), blank audio reels, 2 floppy discs, a CD of “The Old Part of Town,” and 1 DAT containing “Where’s Johnny” and “I’m Not From Here”
2 notepads with lyrics for “Melinda,” “Levelland,” “Fuller Brush Man,” and unknown (“Quit the race …”)
2 notepads with lyrics for multiple songs, including Unknown: “You’re not from around here …”; Unknown: “Attention K-Mart shoppers …”
Series III contains folders of legal-sized notepads, each containing lyrics and/or notes for multiple songs. Song titles (or first lines/key phrases) are listed on each folder.
2 notepads with lyrics for “Right Here Now,” “Iolanthe,” “Shift Your Gaze,” and unknown (“Something’s in the air”)
2 notepads with studio notes for album It Had to Happen
3 notepads with lyrics for “Down Across the Delaware,” “Shift Your Gaze,” “Off and Running,” “Fuller Brush Man,” “Rachel’s Song”
4 Notepads with lyrics for multiple unknown songs, including Unknown: “Pieces of the picture”; Unknown: “Ramble about …”; Unknown: “Never trust what the grown-ups say …”; Unknown: “I could send you flowers …”
Series III contains folders of legal-sized notepads, each containing lyrics and/or notes for multiple songs. Song titles (or first lines/key phrases) are listed on each folder.
“12 O’ Clock Whistle” (loose page)
26 B/W photo prints, photographer and date unknown (mostly “live,” mostly of just McMurtry but some with band); 1 color snapshot dated Jan. 1992, Orange County, Calif. with notation on back: “Termination of the Bottom Line’s ‘In Their Own Words’ Tour’” with James McMurtry, Marshall Crenshaw and six others James McMurtry’s Texas Driver’s License, expired 1997, along with Temporary driver’s permit (stapled together)
“69 T-top Vette” (loose pages)
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
1988-1989 Haigood and Campbell Wholesale Retail Calendar, Archer City, TX and Windthorst, TX, Illustrated by Ace Reid (“The Original Cowpokes”); and “Pinche Bush” political button
A stranger on the street …” (loose pages)
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
“Airline Agent” (loose pages)
“An old Kiowa lived down south …” (losses pages)
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
“And if I don’t call tonight …” (notepad and loose pages)
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
“Angeline” (loose pages)
“Are you finding it hard to see …” (loose pages)
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
“Army Air Corps …/ Took his discharge …” (loose pages)
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
