James McMurtry played shows in Tennessee and Texas in drag: “When we walked out for those encores, we thought we were risking arrest,” he says in this exclusive essay
James McMurtry onstage in 2022; the songwriter recently performed a series of shows in drag to protest anti-LGBTQ legislation.the title of his 2002 song “Red Dress” quite literally while playing a string of concerts earlier this month.
My bandmates and I stopped over in Greenville Texas on the way home from Nashville after our brief foray into civil disobedience. I don’t like to do more than eight hours in a van anymore if I can help it. So we stopped in Greenville, where a sign that read, “Welcome to Greenville, Blackest Land, Whitest People” had hung over the main street well into the 1970s.
Every man should wear a dress once or twice, just to learn a thing or two. They’re damned inconvenient and often flimsily built. During our rapid, pre-encore wardrobe change for the second of our three Tennessee shows, my zipper jammed beyond repair, but the show must go on, so I wound up showing some back that night. Bettysoo sewed some hooks into the back for the final performance, for which I also donned fishnet stockings.
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