Summary: Country-folk rocker James McMurtry attributes his penchant for writing about many different kinds of rural characters to growing up in rural northern Virginia, and to relatives in rural Texas. And he said he often writes about the dark side of those characters because he gets tired of what he called "the glossing over of real life." "I get sick of hearing 'what have they done with old home place' over and over again. Cause I know what they did with the old home place" said McMurtry. "Grandpa got
