RIP Matt Guitar Murphy

[funkyjazzjunky]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/16/entertainment/blues-brothers-matt-murphy-obit/index.html
VMG

[David Houck]

Thanks for posting this.

Sitting here, thankful for the music.

[elwoodblue]

I hadn't heard, thanks for the post.
 

[hieronymous]

I really like this performance (Willie Dixon on bass! I skipped it so it goes right to the song but the intros might be interesting):

https://youtu.be/jaanoFEK_zU?t=1m23s

[cozmik_cowboy]

I really like this performance (Willie Dixon on bass! I skipped it so it goes right to the song but the intros might be interesting):

https://youtu.be/jaanoFEK_zU?t=1m23s

Who needs a guitar face when you've got an eyebrow like that??

Peter

[dead_head]

I saw Matt Murphy play with James Cotton at Brown University's Meehan Auditorium back in 1970. I was right directly in front of the stage.
It was fantastic!  Rest In Peace, Matt...

[smokin_dave]

Yeah.That is very sad news but I didn't realize that he was 88yo.About 15 years ago he hired the band I was playing with to back him up for a show and he was the nicest person.Just a gem of a human being and WOW.What an entertainer/guitarist.Hell of a golfer too.  A few years ago he suffered a stroke and I didn't hear a whole lot from him.


R.I.P. Matt "Guitar" Murphy.See ya' on the other side.

[hieronymous]

Wow dead_head - you got to see him play? And smokin_dave - you got to play with him?!! Both very very cool stories.