Last year, a promotional billboard went up in James McMurtry’s hometown of Austin that dubbed him “the most disinterested man in the world,” after the popular Dos Equis beer ad. It’s a distinction he’s more than earned, thanks to his deadpan, just-the-facts singing voice and nonjudgmentally bleak worldview. McMurtry, 53,…

Source: RollingStone
Link: James McMurtry's Hard Truths From the Heartland