Elliott Murphy

Melding poetic lyricism with hard-edged rock & roll arrangements, Elliott Murphy came up through New York's art rock scene of the early 1970s. Hailed alongside Bruce Springsteen as one of the decade's new Bob Dylans, he recorded a spate of influential and highly respected albums throughout the late '70s and '80s, which for reasons unknown, failed to find a significant American audience. Highly regarded by fellow musicians as varied as Lou Reed, Talking Heads, Violent Femmes, and Billy Joel, the talented Murphy eventually took his trade to Europe, where a large and willing fan ...