Austin Jimmy Murphy

Neatly dressed, at times wearing the latest ball cap purchase, I travel light with my 1988 Fender Telecaster, my Yorkville Mobile 8 amplifier, a few effects pedals, and the simple amenities needed to carry on the show. My gear is perfect for small to medium venues (10-100 people), and can easily be plugged into a larger PA system. I perform to professionally produced backing tracks. I cover several genres, including jazz, blues, some country, and Americana. My amp is battery-powered, so I can perform under any circumstance - indoors, outdoors in the middle of a field, in your office, on a street corner - anywhere. I have performed for one individual, and also in front of hundreds, and a few times for thousands. I am an accomplished guitarist and vocalist. I am also an accomplished author and artist. Keep it simple...

Austin Jimmy Murphy is an award-winning musician and author. Originally from Auburn, NY, he now resides in El Paso, TX. He is the principal founder of both the New York State Blues Festival (Syracuse, NY - festival director from (phone number hidden)4, and 2014), and the Syracuse Irish Festival ((phone number hidden)3). For his efforts, Murphy was presented with the prestigious Service to the Arts award from the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County, and the Keeping the Blues Alive award by the Blues Foundation in Memphis, TN. He is also the recipient of two SAMMYs (Syracuse Area Music Awards), one for the NYS Blues Festival and for his 4-CD box set, A History of Blues.
Known for his versatile guitar work and solid vocals, his repertoire consists of blues, jazz, country, and Americana featuring artists such as Muddy Waters, Lowell Fulsom, Louis Jordan, JJ Cale, Taj Mahal, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Walter Brownie McGhee, Little Walter, B.B. King, Curtis Mayfield, Junior Wells, Albert King, and of course.....several Austin Jimmy tunes. His latest album releases include the jazz instrumental Sunday Morning (under the name James Robert Murphy), Live at The Black Orchid Lounge, Live at Shifty’s, Blues Salad: The Avocado Sessions Part One, Blues Salad: The Avocado Sessions Part Two - Raw Fingerpicking and Slide Guitar, and The Avocado Sessions Part Three: Bits and Pieces (the last of the Avocado Sessions), Diddle (the first collection of original jazz instrumentals, again under the name James Robert Murphy), and Canciones de Amor (Songs of Love), featuring Mexican vocalist Joshua Lucero singing eight of Murphy’s compositions in Spanish and English.
Austin Jimmy performed 100+ dates per year over the last three years in El Paso, New Mexico, and New York, including the the classy Hacienda de Mesilla, Lescombes Winery and Bistro, Plaza Hotel Pioneer Park, the New York State Winter Fair, Homer Center for the Arts in Homer, NY, the Las Cruces Summer Concert Series, the Wine, Beer and Chili Festival on Ft. Bliss, and several dates at NM Vintage Wines, La Vina Winery, Zin Valle Winery, Icebox 28 Brewery, Shifty's, and in Armory Square, Hanover Square, and many more locations. You can find out more by visiting (link hidden).
Murphy holds an M.A. from the University of Oklahoma and a B.S. from SUNY (State University of New York). He served as the Development Director for the City of El Paso Museum of History for the last dozen years of his career. He is the author of six books. The latest being Poetry from a Road Scholar (Wipf and Stock Publishers). Two books, El Paso: (phone number hidden)0, and My Life Before I Decided To Commit Suicide: A Love Story, were both recognized as #1 in their respective fields by El Paso Book Publishers.

I travel light with my 1988 Fender Telecaster, my Yorkville Mobile 8 amplifier, a few effects pedals, and the simple amenities needed to carry on the show. My gear is perfect for small to medium venues (10-100 people), and can easily be plugged into a larger PA system.