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By LYLE LOVETT
Battalion Staff
“Geronimo’s Cadillac” poured
through the stereo speakers. A
crowd waited anxiously Wednesday
afternoon at a local record store for
Michael Murphey to arrive.
The radio station made ready for a
remote-broadcast interview and the
TVlstation was on standby with its
mini-cam. People milled about, up
and down the aisles. Most of them
carried at least one of Murphey s al
bums At the cash register, ticket
after ticket was selling for that
night’s concert.
He was to arrive at 3:30. Right on
time, he walked up the sidewalk.
The crowd didn’t notice.
Murphey was just going to walk in
the front door — alone, no fanfare,
no Introduction. But about 10 steps
from the door he was met by a man
from the radio station who handed
him a T-shirt bearing the station
logo The man directed Murphey
into the backseat of a small car and
the car pulled away.
About 10 minutes later as “Cos
mic! Cowboy” began to play, the
crowd cheered and Murphey
walked out from the back of the
store with a radio station-entourage.
He was wearing the T-shirt. The
interview was inaudible from the
back of the crowd. But everyone
watched Murphey talk and flash his
charasmatic smile.
The crowd was at least 90 percent
female. And after saying how
“good-looking” she considered
Murphey, one girl whispered to a
friend, “He’s a lot smaller than I
thought. ”
|®!Really, they’re never the same in
person,” someone said sarcastically.
Embarrassed, the girl giggled.
The crowd had been gathered
around the interview set in a semi
circle, leaving some distance be
tween it and Murphey. That dis
tance wouldn’t last long.
glfOK, I think we’re ready to do
this, he said as the interview
ended. The stereo played the
chorus of Murphey’s “Healing
Springs” as the semi-circle tight
ened and autograph-seekers
engulfed him. “Bring the lame, the
halt, the blind ...”
Murphey posed for pictures and
signed albums and posters for a solid
hour and a half. His smile never quit
and never seemed put-on or forced.
Hrf greeted each fan as if he or she
were first in line. Murphey seemed
genuinely interested. He displayed
the same sincerity always present in
his music.
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If he’s an act, he’s a consistent
one.
That night, Murphey played to an
enthusiastic crowd that three-
quarters filled the 1,500-seat Bryan
Civic Auditorium.
“I play a lot of small halls,” he
said. “This is the smallest hall I’ve
played in Bryan in the last four
years. But that’s just because we’ve
worked for the college the last four
years and this year they just felt like
it was gonna start lookin’ suspicious
if they kept bringing back Michael
Murphey.
“You’ve gotta have change. So
this year they wanted to do some
other people in concert and I think
they were right in deciding so. But
at the same time I wanted to come
back and play for the people who’ve
supported me.”
And Murphey did play. Two
hours and three encores after the
concert started, he walked off stage.
The crowd was mesmerized.
“I feel in some ways that tonight
was the most special concert that I
ever had here in town,” Murphey
said later. “In spite of all the
enthusiasm and hoop-la at the A&M
shows, this audience was really an
incredibly respectful, kind audience
that listened one minute and really
got energetic at the next.
“Tonight was just really special
for me because these people didn’t
get in for nothin’. They paid to see
the show. They wanted to be here.
They weren’t here just because
their student ID got’em in. And that
really means somethin’ to me.”
Murphey came out wearing a
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Michael Murphey takes time for an interview
after his Wednesday night concert in Bryan
cowboy hat and boots and did play
“Cosmic Cowboy” toward the end of
the concert, but the set reflected
musical changes his career has
undergone.
“I catch flak about it once in a
while, but it only fans the flame,” he
said. “It doesn’t discourage me, it
encourages me. I know I’m going in
the right direction when there are
some people who don’t approve.
Because when everybody’s your
friend and everybody likes what
you’re doin’, you’re in trouble —
you’re stagnating.
“Somebody’s gonna have to look
at it and say, ‘Hey, aren’t you chan-
gin?’ And if you’re not changin’, if
you’re not experimenting around
and moving on musically, you die.
You play the same thing every
night.
“I’m too intrigued with music to
let that drag me down. I like to play.
I’m not worried about my image.
Two hundred years ago I don’t think
anybody said, ‘Hey Bach, we like
your string quartets, but stay away
from the organ and sacred music.”
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