* RADIO-RADIO- “Yellow Moon” receiving more & more airplay across the US & Western Europe (see NEWS page)


"Yellow Moon," Dave latest & fifth album is now avaialble for purchase.

*Click on the cover to get your copy of Yellow Moon.

Dave self-produced this record and has recruited a perfectly sympathetic and adroit backing band. At the center and heartbeat is Shawn Pelton, one of the most in-demand studio drummers in the business; Pelton has worked with Sheryl Crow, Shawn Colvin, Bruce Springsteen, and Billy Joel. He's also the longtime drummer in the Saturday Night Live house-band. Other major contributors include Marc Muller (Steve Forbert, Shania Twain, Donald Fagan) on electric, lap & pedal steel guitar and David Henry (Josh Rouse, David Mead, Indigo Girls) on strings, backing vocals and guitars. 

The "Yellow Moon" album is loaded with moments from a particular intimate relationship. All the invigorating and demoralizing parts are there and the voice has a resignation, swelling and painful, through different turns, but always with a subtext of hope. Dave Murphy's records leave us with a fellow traveler on life's twisting highway. He's a friend whose stories are always welcome because they are carried on such arresting music and they are real.



Over the years Dave has had the privilege of sharing the stage and/or performing with some of the most respected and talented artist around including... Suzanne Vega, Steve Forbert, Slaid Cleaves, Alejandro Escovedo, Lucy Kaplanky, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Christine Lavin, Jim Carroll, Vic Chesnutt, Mike Doughty, Nicole Atkins, Freedy Johnston...


"A musical Raymond Carver, Murphy taps the raw nerve so many struggling songwriters can’t seem to find..."
-Chris Smith, Twin Cities Revue - Minneapolis, MN

“Murphy's, 'My Garden State' belongs in the Ode to Jersey pantheon alongside John Gorka’s 'I’m from New Jersey' and John Pizzarelli’s 'I Like Jersey Best'”
-Bob Ivry, The Record - Hackensack, NJ

"Murphy is a natural storyteller who uses both image-rich lyrics and compelling melodies to illustrate his tale. With the addition of tight vocal harmonies and  creative instrumentation, Murphy's music -- at once thought-provoking and an easy listen -- graciously rides the fine folk/Americana line.""
-Terri Lagerstedt, Fairfield County Weekly - Connecticut

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