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[Cropper Classic]

As a self proclaimed guardian of the Blues Brothers Band legacy, I have been searching high and low for ANY information on our beloved Matt "Guitar" Murphy.

That said, I am overjoyed to present this to you - from approximately one month ago in Coral Gables, Florida:

Matt "Guitar" Murphy

[Blueblood]

AWESOME!!

I tell ya, guitar playing is wonderful therapy for post stroke victims!!
(especially on a Telecaster )

Thanks for the update Crop!!!

[ChAnOoD_bLuEs]

Another video of the same band jamming with him. Nice to see Matt playing again!

[Miami Blues]

I'm overjoyed that Matt is doing so well, and equally happy that these videos were recorded in Miami! Tobacco Road is a great blues club (I've heard that for years -- never had the opportunity to go).

Keep it up, Matt. Cropper, tell him we all love him and wish him the best!

From a fan since SNL (and I loved you and the band in concert in Columbia MD in 1980).

[Cropper Classic]

Miami, I wish I was the Colonel but I'm just a fan - trying to pay tribute anyway I can!

[jake_lee_blues]

Wow. Matt looks great.
Never seen him play telecaster before. But what ever type of guitar Matt Murphy plays, the sound is going to be nothing but tremendous! :D

[Syd-Blues]

That is awesome.

Keep getting better Matt!!

[Flashcomix]

GREAT GREAT NEWS!!

Here is somthing a bit older, but this is Matt at the top of his game:

[SolomanDHBlues]

VERY good news to hear. I'm happy he got up and kept on going!

[bluesharp]

Glad to see Matt back playing!!
Doesn't he look good??

[BubbaBlues]

This is fantastic to see Matt playing again.
By the grace of God he hasn't lost his touch.

[Bismo]

I missed this whole thread when I was on vaca a few weeks ago... fantastic!! Been worried about Matt for ages, news has been so hard to come by....

[Flashcomix]

Their is a new video of him perfoming in may 2008

[Harper-Chris]

Great to see him...
....again with a telecaster...
GREAT !!!

[Bismo]

...And he still wears his Blues Brothers T-shirts, too cool....

[Vinnie Blues]

Music can keep you alive and well (despite the miseries of age sometimes). That's true for many musicians (both classical or modern) and it can be a great therapy too. Hope Matt will keep on like this. We'd like to have some people with us forever.

[gavri]

For me, even if they're always good, the band is not really the band without Matt Murphy. When i saw him first in the movie, i thought he was an actor! I discovered, later, what he did with Memphis Slim, James Cotton... What a blues guitar! And what a nice guy. I remember him walking and sitting with his guitar on the street, signing autographs and talking with fans, in Paris, after the shows at the Olympia, in 1990-91. My favorite photo is from this date: Me and Matt in the street, like two old friends!... Hope to see him again, he looks good!

[Vinnie Blues]

Hey Gavri, I don't remember to have welcomed you here. Another French person here !

Any possibility that we may have a look at that pic of you with Matt ? (Maybe I'm just too nosey... sorry...)

[gavri]

thank you Vinnie!
The problem is that it was a long time ago... before the numeric! It's a good old photo in paper (these photos we don't lose in a bug!) that I must scan!

[Vinnie Blues]

Same here, I don't have a digital camera. Still working with paper. Gotta go to work to scan my shots in order to post them around. Or rely on the generosity of other people with digital stuff.