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...says, "It wasn't until I began to sing my own songs that I had real success." He married young, like Jess, and like him divorced his Jewish wife to start a new life, as they say in the movies, outside the faith. Neil and the former Marcia Murphey of Columbus have two sons, Jesse, 10, and Micah, 3, and homes in Malibu and Beverly Hills. "It's only in the past ten years that I have been making large salaries," Neil says. "I have a couple of holding corporations behind...
...country style that burgeoned beneath Willie's-and Austin's-banner, its exponents were diverse and farflung. Some were identified with the city's rowdy club scene, like the hard-drinking Jerry Jeff Walker, whose life-style could qualify for federal disaster relief. Others, like Michael Murphey, started in Austin but moved on to other locales. Now living in Evergreen, Colo., Murphey has a cooler sound than many of the progressives and writes lyrics about themes like urban sprawl and the advent of fast-food chains where the Cavalry once rode. Still others, like Waylon Jennings...
...that spent about $1,000 on women's athletics in 1973. The figure is now up to $120,000 (vs. the men's $2.5 million), but the indignities remain. Item: male golfers receive an unlimited supply of balls, while the women are given one per competitive round. Says Liz Murphey: "Sometimes the guys give the girls some just to be nice. Things are looking better, but it's very slow...
...Buckwheat") Stevenson is the most commercially successful of the young Austin musicians. He writes a lot about women, with emotion as honest as Merle Haggard's but a bit more realistic. Austin men are not suicidal; when a woman leaves, they survive. Michael Murphey is the most articulate lyricist. His new album contains a tune called Holy Roller, a tongue-in-cheek paean to Bible Belt religion that obliquely speaks to the question of loss of faith. Without doubt, the quintessential country rocker is Jerry Jeff Walker. His songs tend to be unpretentious autobiographical celebrations. For Jerry Jeff, life...
...lack, onstage, of show business antics or, in the recording studio, of slick electronic techniques. Leading musicians concertize and make records the way they drink-quickly, while everybody is looking, with few rehearsals and fewer regrets. The more natural, unlaundered, even raunchy the result, the better. As Michael Murphey puts it in his Cosmic Cowboy Souvenir album...