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turbinetree

(24,703 posts) Sat Jun 16, 2018, 06:48 PM Jun 2018

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.

Read more: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8461313/matt-guitar-murphy-blues-brothers-guitarist-dies-at-88

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Matt 'Guitar' Murphy, Blues Brothers Guitarist, Dies at 88 (Original Post) turbinetree Jun 2018 OP

RIP DownriverDem Jun 2018 #1

b3rd's and b7th's to ya sir. Eko Jun 2018 #2

One of the greats. RIP Matt. Thank you for your music. sueh Jun 2018 #3

RIP. Love that movie! Initech Jun 2018 #4

A great talent. RIP backtoblue Jun 2018 #5

Damn. Safe Passage Mr. Murphy. Va Lefty Jun 2018 #6

I can't believe he was 88 JohnnyRingo Jun 2018 #7

We are all on a mission from God...this has relevancy today and everday DonaldsRump Jun 2018 #8

RIP Matt SkatmanRoth Jun 2018 #9

He was good. Orsino Jun 2018 #10

DownriverDem

(6,229 posts)

1. RIP

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 07:01 PM

Jun 2018

Loved you in the movie! Hoping your last years weren't so bad.

Eko

(7,318 posts)

2. b3rd's and b7th's to ya sir.

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 07:26 PM

Jun 2018

sueh

(1,826 posts)

3. One of the greats. RIP Matt. Thank you for your music.

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 07:34 PM

Jun 2018

Initech

(100,081 posts)

4. RIP. Love that movie!

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 07:41 PM

Jun 2018

backtoblue

(11,343 posts)

5. A great talent. RIP

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 07:56 PM

Jun 2018

Va Lefty

(6,252 posts)

6. Damn. Safe Passage Mr. Murphy.

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2018, 08:14 PM

Jun 2018

JohnnyRingo

(18,636 posts)

7. I can't believe he was 88

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sun Jun 17, 2018, 12:00 AM

Jun 2018

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)

8. We are all on a mission from God...this has relevancy today and everday

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sun Jun 17, 2018, 12:13 AM

Jun 2018

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)

9. RIP Matt

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sun Jun 17, 2018, 05:57 AM

Jun 2018

You had talent

Orsino

(37,428 posts)

10. He was good.

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 10:28 AM

Jun 2018

I spent a rapt hour ten feet away on a fraternity's lawn listening to him back in the eighties.

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