![]() He's played with the Carolina Special in one form or another for 33 years. North Carolina-born, Murphy's roots-music pedigree is solid as Appalachian granite. last night, plucking and drinking under the stars. Rumor has it that some of the band members were up picking until 3 a.m. He plunges into a complicated finger game on the fret, picking and plucking a quick, complicated melody while the other band members squeeze toward the microphone and take off down to Dixieland with him. "Would y'all like to see them come up here and do another one before they tear me up?" he says to the band, already making its way back up to the stage readying their instruments - bass, banjo, mandolin, guitar and fiddle.īanjo player George Goodell flashes the crowd a quick smile and says, "You ever go a sled-riding?" The crowd cheers from low lawn chairs dragged strategically out of the blazing sun and around the perimeter of shady Miners Park. ![]() ![]() "What do you think?" he says, his voice so Southern-fried it makes the stomach rumble. They're the final act of the inaugural "Bluegrass on the Comstock" festival in Virginia City on Sunday morning, and the crowd, though modest, keeps calling for encores.Įmcee Don Evans of Silver Springs comes out on stage and encourages the folk music fans with his honey-roasted banter. John Murphy and his Carolina Special are trying to get off the stage.
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