James McMurtry - A Decent Man

Kessler Theater Dallas
Oct 8, 2021

[@ObvPhotography]

Best song of the new album!

[@bud5405]

Next to Jackie!

[@thefirebuilds]

Canola Fields for me but this is an incredible story and his lyrics get more and more depth every year.

[@michaelgottfried9134]

Such a great, great song

[@elsupremo3651]

He keeps turning out gems.

[@outlaw7615]

I don't care who you are that's a badass song son

[@trish9614]

When your shooting at a coffee can 38 don’t kick that bad.

[@adriennelovelocksongwriter7968]

James McMurtry, great story-teller.

[@SaintEuphemia817]

Love this song heard it the other day ...

[@j.shoreline6428]

Anyone know what he said about the story of this song before this filming started?

[@larrytullos8110]

Yeah sorry I missed getting that. He was talking about basing the song on a short story written by Wendell Berry - Pray Without Ceasing. I found a link to the original story here
mirrorwithclouds.wordpress.com/2019/04/21/wendell-berry-pray-without-ceasing-a-short-story-easter-extra/

[@j.shoreline6428]

@@larrytullos8110 Awesome. Thanks Larry!

[@dylanspencer6085]

The story can be found in Fidelity, a collection of five of Wendell Berry's short stories. Highly, highly recommend reading and following up with Jayber Crow and Hannah Coulter.

[@thefirebuilds]

@@larrytullos8110 The link provided is to a reading journal, I think this is the actual text of the story:
www.jaxcathedral.org/uploads/images/pray-without-ceasing_593.pdf

[@larrytullos8110]

@@thefirebuilds Thanks very much for finding and sharing this.