John Murry has announced the release of “a little bit of Grace and Decay – Original Soundtrack Recording for The Graceless Age: The Ballad Of John Murry” on 20th September 2024 on TV Records. The album by Murry and the Cowboy Junkies’ Michael Timmins will be available as a Deluxe CD and download and will be preceded a week earlier by download single ‘What Remains’.
The film tells the story of American singer-songwriter Murry, who was on the cusp of greatness after the release of his highly acclaimed album “The Graceless Age” (2013), when his world fell apart. Addicted to heroin and creatively exhausted, he washed up on the shores of Ireland, a broken man. He retraces his steps back to Mississippi into the dark heart of American life and face his demons– a neglected childhood, traumatic assault, and resulting years of opioid addiction.
The film chronicles his efforts to put it back together again after finding solace in Ireland and come to terms with his turbulent early years and culminates with John travelling to Toronto to rekindle his creative collaboration with Timmins, who produced his second album,” A Short History of Decay”. You can see a trailer to the film below.
“[The record is] a “sort-of” soundtrack album to the film, it contains some score pieces, as well as some of the solo recordings that John and I made when he was here in Toronto, some of which also became a part of the score” says Timmins. Tracks include stripped-back versions of songs from “A Short History Of Decay”, new songs, and sections of the score.
Murry will play the following UK and Ireland acoustic shows, with more to be announced:
July 22 Newcastle Upon Tyne, The Cluny 2
July 23 Edinburgh, The Voodoo Rooms
July 26 Bristol, Chicken Shed at Hen & Chicken
July 28 Twickenham, High Tide
Nov 7 Stone, The Wren
Nov 10 Leicester, The Musician
Nov 17 Cork, Ireland, Coughlans
Nov 19 Dublin, Ireland, Whelans
Nov 22 Galway, Ireland, Monroes
Dec 11 Leytonstone, Social Club
Dec 12 Southampton, The Attic
Tickets and details can be found here.
