James McMurtry has spent 25 years exploring the underbelly of the US heartland with his guitar. Back with his first album in six years, "Complicated Games," the Texas-based folk singer offers somber takes on American life -- the United States both of small-town megastores and sweeping scenic beauty -- in songs that at once seem timely and universal. "I've only written two political songs in all my life," the soft-spoken McMurtry, who sports a grizzled beard and round glasses, told AFP.
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