- country
- 59 min
- 12 tracks
- Compadre Records
Childish Things is a 2005 album by singer-songwriter James McMurtry. It was awarded the 2006 Americana Music Association Album of the Year Award. The song "We Can't Make It Here" was named the best song of the 2000s decade by music critic Robert Christgau.
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Classical in form, spare, grave and raw.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- intimateepic
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Tracks
- 1See the Elephant4:24
- 2Childish Things4:34
- 3We Can't Make It Here7:05
- 4Slew Foot4:34
- 5Bad Enough4:19
- 6Restless3:54
- 7Memorial Day4:16
- 8Six Year Drought5:13
- 9Old Part of Town5:17
- 10Charlemagne's Home Town5:52
- 11Pocatello3:03
- 12Holiday6:37
12 tracks, 59 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- James McMurtry
- Label
- Compadre Records
- Released
- September 6, 2005
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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