Gurf Morlix is a total enigma. He is one of the people in Austin that lights up a room, that is on the random occasions that he is around. Mostly, I think he is holed up in his studio, creating magic and lending his prodigious skills to folks like Ray Bonneville, Robyn Ludwick, Grant Peeples, Marvin Etzioni, Lucinda Williams, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Slaid Cleaves, Buddy and Julie Miller, and Mary Gauthier. His discography is nothing short of astonishing. Gurf’s most recent album is an homage to his late buddy, Blaze Foley’s 113th Wet Dream. Gurf can rock or he can lay back, but it all has a credibility, an authenticity, and that is unmistakable.
Gurf is a reverse snowbird, as he heads north from Texas in the hot season. I don’t know if he has escaped for that yet this year, but he just did some dates in New York City a couple of weeks ago. Gurf is magnificent whether solo or if you are fortunate enough to see him with full band. He simply smokes the room. I can’t believe we are just a few months away from this year’s Americana Music Association Festival. We hooked up with Gurf solo in Nashville during last year’s Americana Fest in Nashville, our Fall Music Fog Marathon at Marathon Recorders. He played a song originally from his 2009 release Last Exit To Happytown, the beautiful “She’s A River.”
-Jessie Scott
