Gurf Morlix

Gurf Morlix
Born 1951
Lackawanna, New York (Our Lady Of Victory Hospital) Was raised in Hamburg, New York
Origin Austin, Texas
Website www.gurfmorlix.com

Gurf Morlix is an American multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter and record producer residing for many years in Austin, Texas. He has worked with many of the best known performers of Americana, roots rock and alternative country music. His most notable works include albums by Lucinda Williams, Robert Earl Keen, Mary Gauthier, Ian McLagan, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Slaid Cleaves. The instruments that he plays include guitar, bass, mandolin, mandocello, dobro, pedal steel, Weissenborn, banjo, harmonica, and drums. Morlix is a member of the Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame (2004) and the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame (2005), and is the Americana Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year for 2009.

Career

Originally from Buffalo, New York, Morlix moved to Texas in 1975 and initially performed with Blaze Foley, in both Austin and Houston. Moving to Los Angeles in 1981, he met Lucinda Williams, a fellow Texas-based musician who had also moved there. He became her accompanist for 11 years (1985 to 1996) and produced two of her records: Lucinda Williams and its follow-up, Sweet Old World. Morlix was involved in the preliminary work on her next project, but eventually left in frustration at the repeated delays in the release of Williams's Car Wheels on a Gravel Road album;[1] the album was released in 1998, produced by Steve Earle and Ray Kennedy. In 1990, he accompanied Warren Zevon on tour. He moved back to Austin in 1991. In the 2000s, he was a member of Ian McLagan's Bump Band.

Discography

Solo works

Other works (selected)

For a more complete discography see the Gurf Morlix page at www.gurfmorlix.com

Additional credits include work with Warren Zevon, Buddy Miller, Julie Miller, Ian McLagan, Eliza Gilkyson, Jimmy LaFave, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Mojo Nixon, Jim Lauderdale, Jerry Lee Lewis, Michael Penn, and many others.

See also

References

  1. Texas Monthly Magazine, February 2009, p 44. Interview with Gurf Morlix

External links

Awards
Preceded by
Buddy Miller
AMA Instrumentalist of the Year
2009
Not Yet Awarded
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