This week's Spinning On Air features music by Mike "Sport" Murphy, a New York-based singer/songwriter who has just completed a new album, "Uncle." He'll join host David Garland to premier and discuss the album, which he calls "a very mixed bag of feelings and memories." The disc is dedicated to Murphy's nephew who was a New York City firefighter who died on September 11.
Mike "Sport" Murphy's CD, "Uncle."
Uncle (on the Kill Rock Stars label) is dedicated to Sport's nephew Peter Vega, with whom Sport grew up as a brother. Peter was a New York City firefighter. In Sport's own words: "This album is my love offering to Peter, my nephew/brother who died saving others that day. I mainly wanted to speak to Peter (not "about" him), and so the album largely skips the anthemic, the political and the inspirational. I make no claims for it other than its honesty in trying to convey a very mixed bag of feelings and memories. As well as providing a personal outlet for the obviously inexpressible, I hoped it would be something that would thoroughly entertain Pete. So it ain't all sobs and screams, and maybe you'll enjoy some of it too."
Mike "Sport" Murphy's CD, "Uncle."
Uncle (on the Kill Rock Stars label) is dedicated to Sport's nephew Peter Vega, with whom Sport grew up as a brother. Peter was a New York City firefighter. In Sport's own words: "This album is my love offering to Peter, my nephew/brother who died saving others that day. I mainly wanted to speak to Peter (not "about" him), and so the album largely skips the anthemic, the political and the inspirational. I make no claims for it other than its honesty in trying to convey a very mixed bag of feelings and memories. As well as providing a personal outlet for the obviously inexpressible, I hoped it would be something that would thoroughly entertain Pete. So it ain't all sobs and screams, and maybe you'll enjoy some of it too."
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