Award-winning musician and songwriter James McMurtry will bring Texas-flavored roots rock to The Palms Playhouse in Winters on Sunday. McMurtry will be accompanied by his longtime band, The Heartless Bastards.

Over the past two decades, the Austin, Texas-based songwriter and musician has built a reputation for blistering live shows and albums featuring astute and compelling songs brought to life through masterful musicianship.

Son of acclaimed novelist Larry McMurtry (“Lonesome Dove,” “Terms of Endearment”), James McMurtry’s lyrics indicate he inherited the writer’s gift for observation; he then weaves those observations into songs “that power into full and incandescent life,” a news release said.

The Washington Post said, “(McMurtry) creates a novel’s worth of emotion and experience in four minutes of blisteringly stark couplets.”

With songs ranging from the nearly delicate “St. Mary of The Woods” to the ragingly anthemic “We Can’t Make It Here” to the oft-covered Southern rocker “Choctaw Bingo,” McMurtry is a songwriter of both breadth and depth. Wrote Stephen King, “(t)he simple fact is that James McMurtry may be the truest, fiercest songwriter of his generation.”

McMurtry will appear at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at The Palms, 13 Main St. in downtown Winters. Tickets are $20, available at Armadillo Music in Davis, Watermelon Music in Woodland, Pacific Ace Hardware in Winters and at the door if not sold out.

For more information, call (530) 795-1825 or visit palmsplayhouse.com or jamesmcmurtry.com.

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James McMurtry’s live performances have been described as “blow-your-hair-back powerful.” He’ll perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at The Palms Playhouse, 13 Main St. in downtown Winters. Courtesy photo

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