-Michael Ross chose Samantha's debut album "somewhere between starving & stardom" as one of his top 10 for this year's Village Voice Annual Pazz & Jop poll.
"With The Highway Girl, Samantha Murphy does the legwork for you, trudging through the jungle of independent music to find the very best artists to feature on her exceptional show. A must-listen for those who like to hear it first and tell everyone about their favorite new band."
-Abby White, Music Editor Performing Songwriter Magazine
“…she’s a motivational speaker with a guitar.”
-Chris Kocher, pressconnects.com
About Samantha Murphy and The Highway Girl
Google singer songwriter and the first name you’ll find is Samantha Murphy. For over four years, Samantha has been establishing herself as not only a singer songwriter, but the place to go to hear other great singer songwriters. With her popular show The Highway Girl, Samantha features a different artist from a different city and venue each week as she tours. Past guests include Aimee Mann, Martha Wainwright, Elvis Perkins, Cary Brothers, Juliana Hatfield, Teitur, Inara George, Jesse Malin, Harvey Danger and Abra Moore. Millions of people have downloaded her program.
Samantha is in demand as a speaker and has moderated and been a panel member at many conferences such as the Consumer Electronics Show, Digital Music Forum West, Future of Music Coalition Summit, College Broadcaster’s Inc. and MEISA’s National Conference. She has taken part in symposiums on behalf of Princeton University and has been quoted in major press publications such as Conde Nast’s Portfolio.com and NPR.
Samantha’s independently released debut CD, somewhere between starving & stardom, was chosen as a top 10 for Village Voice’s Annual Pazz & Jop Poll by Michael Ross, who calls it “…a perfect pop record.” The album contains an all star band consisting of the rhythm section from Alanis Morissette’s multi-platinum debut Jagged Little Pill and Kanye West’s Cellist.
Performing professionally since she was six years old, Samantha has worked with Willie Nelson, Michael McDonald, Five for Fighting, Kylie Minogue and Erikah Badu as well as having appeared on TV shows ranging from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to Australia’s Hey, Hey It’s Saturday.
The Highway Girl, Samantha's company, was one of only ten companies out of 400 applicants accepted into the Techstars program in Boulder, Colorado. Last summer she was mentored by some of the finest entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in the world.
Samantha’s latest single and video “Days Like This”, Produced by Martin Terefe (KT Tunstall/James Morrison), is pre-loaded into RCA’s entire new line of MP3 players and has been shipped to Wal-Marts across the USA and Canada. The accompanying album, Some Assembly Required, will be available in the fall of ‘09.
In a more perfect world, this music would be inescapable. You would be hearing it on the radio, in commercials, in movies, and of course coming out of your iPod earphones as you worked out. As it is, even an archaeologist of obscure talent such as myself would not be aware of it had not the ultra-talented Ms. Murphy performed at a pickin' party that I attended in Manhattan. (Yes, they have pickin' parties in Manhattan.) Having seen her name on the announcement, and being unfamiliar with her music, I checked out her website, where I was treated to the brilliant, Police-like "I Wanna Go Home." Neither that tune nor her charming and entertaining live performance prepared me for the pop masterpiece that is Somewhere Between Starving & Stardom.
The CD reveals that the Police influence in “I Wanna Go Home” is no isolated fluke. If Aimee Mann references the production elements of the Sixties, Murphy manages to distill the best elements of early-Eighties pop in the aforementioned tune, as well as in the Men-At-Work sounding "At The Laundr-O-Mat"--a tale of a woman who, after spending a fortune on grooming to meet a man, lands one while doing a wash. Still, SBS&S is no more a retro exercise than Mann's records; these classic touches are just spice added to a few tunes, on a record that maintains a thoroughly modern attitude. A sparser sound appropriately couches a song called "Silent & Still," while a love song like "I Am You" mixes banjo and minimal electronics in a manner both current and timeless. The great arrangements and production are themselves flavoring for the excellently crafted songs and Murphy’s voice--a magnificent mix of Mann's wry experience and Dusty Springfield's vulnerable soul.
Somewhere Between Starving & Stardom is an unusual but welcome brew of mature witty wisdom and unshakable optimism. Whether she ends up starving or a star, Samantha Murphy should take pride in knowing that, in a less than perfect world, she has at least created one perfect record.
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MOVIE PREMIERES AUGUST 15TH @ THE MAJESTIC IN FALLS CHURCH. Drinks & Meet starts @ 4pm. Showing starts at 5.30 with special performance by MadeMen (Bizzle Boy Affiliates) following the premiere. DONT MISS IT! MAJESTIC RESTAURANT-2922 Annandale Road, Falls Church VA 22042
Come out and celebrate the release of our new album, 'Real World Shaker', with us. The kickoff to a national college radio campaign beginning on the 30th. It should be a wild time. Hope to see you there and as always, thanks for the support - The Wonda
Saturday, June 27th, 10pm @ The Mousetrap (5565 N Keystone Ave Indy, IN) FREE!!! w/ Marshall Robbins
We are very excited to announce our first ever official film clip for our single ‘SHE WOKE UP TO ME’ has now been released and you can view it in all it’s glory on our YouTube page:
http://www.youtube.com/mojorisingband
Directed by talented up & coming director/producer Rob Viscio in a warehouse in South Melbourne, we wanted to incorporate a science fiction theme in homage to the 80’s film ‘Weird Science’ where two guys try to build the ‘perfect’ woman using Frankenstein type methods. Pure 80’s gold!
Whats new? I would like to find out if you are working on anything interesting. I have been trying to get into Music for Video Games. I have 6 tunes that I made for a demo and am looking around
Besides that I have 1 animation coming that will be in theme with the website I'll be launching. I'm still trying to connect with Artists to help me with the look of the myspace. Which has a nice little blog feel.
I'll have a CD of 'Composer For Media'. My work will be very much in the vein of 'Artist Production' and 'Media Writing'.
Hey! If you know anyone, or you yourself want to Collaborate! really need Singers and Lyricists! Drop me a message/comment if you know someone! I'm asking for people's emails and phone numbers to get in touch
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If you had a chance to listen to my music I'd like to thank you. If you haven't yet,let me know later if you liked it.
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