Gurf Morlix Explained

Gurf Morlix
Background:	solo_singer
Birth Date:	1951
Associated Acts:	Blaze Foley, Lucinda Williams

Gurf Morlix (born 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and music producer.

Career

Born in Buffalo, New York, Morlix moved to Texas in 1975 and performed with Blaze Foley. He moved to Los Angeles in 1981 and joined Lucinda Williams's band. He accompanied her from 1985 to 1996 and produced two of her records, Lucinda Williams and its follow-up, Sweet Old World.^[1]

Morlix has produced albums for Slaid Cleaves, Mary Gauthier, Robert Earl Keen and Ray Wylie Hubbard among many others.^[2]

Awards

• He is a member of the Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame (2003–2004)^[3]
• Buffalo Music Hall of Fame (2005)^[4]
• Americana Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year in 2009.^[5]

Discography

• Toad of Titicaca (Catamount Records, 2000)
• Fishin' in the Muddy (Catamount Records, 2002)
• Cut 'n Shoot (Blue Corn Music, 2004)
• Diamonds to Dust (Blue Corn Music, 2007)
• Birth to Boneyard (Rootball, 2008), an instrumental version of Diamonds to Dust
• Last Exit to Happyland (Rootball, 2009)
• Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream (Rootball, 2011)
• Finds the Present Tense (Rootball, 2013)
• Eatin' At Me (Rootball, 2015)
• The Soul & the Heal (Rootball, February 3, 2017)
• Impossible Blue (Rootball, February 8, 2019)
• Kiss of the Diamondback (Rootball, July 24, 2020)
• The Tightening Of The Screws (Rootball, November 2021)
• Caveman (Rootball, October 2022)
• I Challenge The Beast (Rootball, April 2023)
• Melt Into You (Rootball, January 2024)

External links

• • • "Out Front: Sideman Supreme Gurf Morlix Steps...", by Lee Nichols Austin Chronicle, April 17, 2000
• Article at No Depression

Notes and References

1. Texas Monthly Magazine, February 2009, p. 44. Interview with Gurf Marlin.
2. News: Poet. J.. Gurf Morlix: An Artist In Search Of Perfection. December 2, 2016. The Bluegrass Station. March 19, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20161202234945/http://www.thebluegrasssituation.com/read/gurf-morlix-artist-search-perfection. December 2, 2016.
3. Web site: Austin Music Awards 2003-2004 Winner: Gurf Morlix.
4. Web site: Gurf Morlix's entry at Buffalo Music Hall of Fame.
5. Web site: Gurf Morlix's award entry at The American Music Association.