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Check out: McMurtry’s scathing “We Can’t Make it Here.” The anti-war and Bush critique was released as a free download in 2004, and fan -made videos have been viewed on Youtube over 250,000 times since. 
Why Steel Bridge? “pat mAcDonald opened up for us at a couple shows, and we were really impressed with him. He’s been asking me to come up and play for a couple years, and I could finally fit it in so I’m gonna fly up and do it solo.”
Sounds like: Lou Reed singing Bruce Springsteen songs in an authentic country vein. “Kind of like pat, actually,” McMurtry said, “but not quite as extreme. He’s out there on that stomp box, which he plays really well and I’m not there.”
On playing “acoustic” sets: I don’t try to call it acoustic, because once you put a mic in front of the guitar, you’re not hearing just the guitar anymore, and it’s not acoustic, but an amplified representation of the guitar’s sound.” 
Influences: Kris Kristofferson, Crazy Horse, The Band. 

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