Matt Guitar Boogie - Matt Guitar Murphy
Matt "Guitar" Murphy (born December 29, 1927) is an American blues guitarist. Matt Murphy was born in Sunflower, Mississippi, United States, and was educated in Memphis, where his father worked at the Peabody Hotel. Murphy played with Howlin' Wolf in 1948; harpist Little Junior Parker was also in the band at the time. By 1952, Murphy was in Chicago, where he began his long association with Memphis Slim by playing on his dates for United Records and Vee-Jay Records, including the album, At The Gate of Horn (1959). Murphy did not have a band of his own until 1982, but played with many famous bands. Among them (more or less chronologically): Howlin' Wolf Little Junior Parker Ike Turner Muddy Waters Memphis Slim James Cotton Otis Rush Etta James Sonny Boy Williamson II Chuck Berry Joe Louis Walker The Shaboo All Stars The Blues Brothers He played with some of these bands for many years (for example, 20 years in a r...