Avenues

AVENUES


The third volume of the Paul Murphy - Lyrics anthologies.

This superb collection covers two entities - ANY LAST WORDS and PRAIRIE WINDS.

Running from 1982 to 2023, covering both the artists' performing years, and the renaissance years from 2021, with his return to songwriting after 10 years away.

This selection of works covers all facets, with an equal emphasis on his social commentary material, his love songs, narrative folk ballads, songs for his children, and his inner reflective works, many covered in poignancy, being written whilst he was fighting a terminal auto-immune muscle-wasting disease.

Many of the pieces presented here have found fresh audiences through Paul's Internet performances, showing the uniqueness of his prose and alliteration have yet to be eclipsed in certain arenas: the anger of 'I Am The Law' and 'We're Gonna Give Them Hell'; the tenderness of 'For H' and 'When Love Is Lost'; the heartbreak of 'The Poet Has Left The Building'; and the epic 'Prairie Winds', almost 100 verses over its 14 'chapters' (which run to over 8 hours in their performed videos), a majestic excoriating work covering social, political and individual injustices historical and current.

Emotive, empowering, though-provoking, heartwarming, heart-rending, and occasionally, unsettling, this anthology showcases a master of the songwriting and prose-poem formats at his peak.