_____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911.
June 16, 2018, 11:17 PM
Edmond
Loved him in Blues Brothers. Especially the diner scene with Aretha Franklin.
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June 16, 2018, 11:48 PM
Balzé Halzé
The Blues Brothers is my father's favorite movie, and as such my sister, brother, and I were regularly exposed to it growing up (which none of us minded because we all loved this movie too). For the longest time, I thought Matt "Guitar" Murphy was Carl Weathers.
88 is a good run. RIP.
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Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan
June 17, 2018, 06:26 AM
ScreamingCockatoo
He used to tour here all the time. At least once a month he'd be in Atlanta.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.
June 17, 2018, 06:49 AM
rduckwor
The great ones are leaving us and sadly, I see no replacements in the wings.
RIP and thanks for the music.
RMD
TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free.
June 17, 2018, 03:15 PM
DTREND75
Damn
Sensitive and caring since August 2009
Some people are like a Slinky....not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.
June 18, 2018, 11:55 AM
bendable
Matt “Guitar” Murphy, blues sideman who played with the Blues Brothers and legends like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, died Friday, June 15, 2018, according to multiple news sources. He was 88.
“He was a strong man that lived a long long fruitfull life that poured his heart out in every guitar solo he took,” his nephew, Floyd Murphy Jr., wrote on Facebook.
Murphy is fondly remembered for playing Aretha Franklin’s soul food-cooking husband, and target of her memorable performance of “Think” in “The Blues Brothers” movie.
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He began playing with John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd after they caught him performing in a New York City club in 1978. By that time, he was already a veteran bluesman, having come up through the Chicago blues scene during the 1950s. He joined the Blues Brothers all-star band and appeared in their 1980 film as well as its 1998 sequel, “Blues Brothers 2000.”
Other musicians he worked with included Ike Turner, Etta James, James Cotton, Willie Dixon, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
Murphy was born December 29, 1929 in Sunflower, Miss., and raised in Memphis, Tenn. He moved to Chicago in 1948 and joined Howlin’ Wolf’s band.
He suffered a stroke in 2002 that forced him into semi-retirement, though he still performed publicly on rare occasions.
