BOBBY MURRAY, guitar
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BOBBY MURRAY
Perhaps
you heard his guitar work on "The Sopranos" or seen him on
the Tonight Show, Austin City Limits or Late Night w/Letterman. If you've
seen Etta James perform in the last twenty years, you've seen and heard
Bobby. As Robert Santelli of Downbeat says,"He's the one that makes
you take notice." When legendary diva Etta James was on the lookout
for a blues guitarist to augment her Roots Band in 1988, it was Bobby
Murray who got the call. Shuffling his duties between Etta and his own
band, the transplanted Californian's latest offering, "Live and
Lowdown" leads his Detroit-based blues ensemble into yet another
soundscape of this distinctly American genre. Few blues guitarists working
today possess the versatility Bobby commands and fewer still have the
ability to move an audience as he can.
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