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Generally favorable reviews- based on 11 Ratings
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LarryWMay 10, 2008Another superb cd by one of the great songwriters of our generation. The music is more diverse and expanded, and the lyrics as biting, poignant and intelligent as ever. It ranks up there with his best.
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PaulCMay 13, 2008The songs themselves are excellent, in particular "Cheney's Toy," but I can't help but wish someone else was performing them.
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EricO.May 12, 2008
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Just Us Kids is an album very much of its time that also speaks to the larger ideas of life in America in an uncertain age, and it's brave, smart, and pithy music that captures James McMurtry at the top of his game.
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In such stories, McMurtry locates again and again an element of humanity that saves his angriest screeds from easy pigeonholing.
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Muscularly arranged with bongolated beats, psychedelic swamp guitars, boogie-woogie pine top and snowballing chorus hooks, Just Us Kids approximates a certain literate strain of early-'80s album rock.