Matt 'Guitar' Murphy, Blues Brothers Guitarist, Dies at 88
Source: Billboard
Matt "guitar Murphy best known as the guitarist for the Blues Brothers, died Friday (June 15). He was 88.
Murphy's passing was confirmed by his nephew Floyd Murphy Jr., who performed alongside his uncle. "He was a strong man that lived a long long fruitful life that poured his heart out in every guitar solo he took," Floyd Jr. wrote on Facebook.
Murphy's cause of death had not been revealed at press time. In 2002, he suffered from a stroke that pushed him into semi-retirement, Rolling Stone reports.
Murphy was a veteran of the Chicago blues scene in the 1940s and '50s, and worked with a wide variety of artists, including Ike Turner, Etta James, James Cotton, Willie Dixon, and Sonny Boy Williamson. But he is best known as Aretha Franklin's soul food chef husband and band guitarist in the 1980 classic comedy The Blues Brothers.
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DownriverDem
(6,240 posts)Loved you in the movie! Hoping your last years weren't so bad.
Eko
(7,424 posts)sueh
(1,829 posts)Initech
(100,155 posts)backtoblue
(11,348 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,702 posts)I'm sure I saw him a couple times over the decades, but I forget with whom. Maybe once with Neil Young.
Why does He keep taking our heroes and leave the obvious targets to wreak disaster? Can't He spare a heart attack or two to make the world a better place?
DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)I love(d) this movie.
If you are on a mission from God (or whatever name you give he/she/it), you can do anything....that's what we are all on: a mission from God to get over this insanity...
RIP Matt Murphy
SkatmanRoth
(843 posts)You had talent
Orsino
(37,428 posts)I spent a rapt hour ten feet away on a fraternity's lawn listening to him back in the eighties.