★★★★★
www.gurfmorlix.com
To some, Gurf Morlix may be best known for his efforts in various support roles - that is, the playing and production he's contributed to albums by Lucinda Williams, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Tom Russell, Butch Hancock, Ian McLagan, Slaid Cleaves, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Miller, Peter Case, Bob Neuwirth, Trish Murphy, Marvin Etzioni, Andrew Hardin, Jim Lauderdale, Michael Penn and Mojo Nixon, among the many...
- blurtonline.com
2013-04-18
★★★★★
American producer and multi-instrumentalist Gurf Morlix has the coolest name, probably because he chose it himself after dreaming it up when he was a young kid. (True story.) He's best known as a sideman for such folk luminaries as Lucinda Williams, but he's released a series of solo album over the past dozen years...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-04-08
★★★★★
Gurf Morlix Finds The Present TenseBy Jason SchneiderOn his first all-original album since 2009, the Austin, TX legend reaffirms his position as one of Americana's most painfully honest singer-songwriters. Setting a heavy mood with opening track "My Life's Been Taken," Morlix sticks with it through the majority of the ensuing nine songs, painting bleak portraits of desperate men chasing love and money while on the run from past mistakes...
- exclaim.ca
2013-04-08
★★★★★
American producer and multi-instrumentalist Gurf Morlix has the coolest name, probably because he chose it himself after dreaming it up when he was a young kid. (True story.)
He's best known as a sideman for such folk luminaries as Lucinda Williams, but he's released a series of solo album over the past dozen years...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2013-04-08
★★★★★
Heavy Vibrations
Brian Wilson used to look for good vibrations. That was the sixties. Times have changed. Gurf Morlix lives in the present, where life is tense. Every day the headlines ring with new traumas. Morlix feels heavy vibrations. Unfortunately, Morlix doesn't really explain why. He notes that there is hate and fear in the world and offers metaphors of locusts and famine, but these seem timeless and work against his lyrical conceit that now is worse than before...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-04-08
★★★★★
This new album from Gurf Morlix "Find The Present Tense" is the epitome of what Roots/Americana music is all about. Songs that have been written by some of the best daydreamers in the world; Songwriters such as Gurf Morlix. Not only does this Austin, Texas derived CD contain several of the best roots songs written for release in 2013. These tracks also feature some of the most prolific instrumentalists backing Gurf's vocal performances; performed with individual care and creativity...
- rootsmusicreport.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
There's something intangibly affective in an artist unraveling another songwriter's work with such deep personal devotion, intimacy, and an understanding of the material that can only be distilled through a continued admiration across time and loss...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2011-02-07
★★★★★
Austin is a city which creates its own legends, many of whom aren't even mortals on other maps. Billy Joe Shaver is one. This man, better known outside of Central Texas for his shooting, is known as the first guy you want to get to know when you hit town. Ray Wiley Hubbard is another, as is Townes Van Zandt. Austin treats Bob Schneider and Asleep at the Wheel like local landmarks--something you have to see when you come to town. Blaze Foley was another Austin legend...
- roughstock.com
2011-01-31
★★★★★
Gurf Morlix's fifth recording fits neatly on the shelf with his others, Last Exit to Happyland akin to journeying into the past and rediscovering all that made you you. Still best known as the sideman's sideman, Morlix's repute as a producer remains equally stellar (Lucinda Williams, Ray Wylie Hubbard), meaning Happyland sounds happily lived in...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2009-07-21
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