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Bobby Murray is an American electric blues guitarist, songwriter and record producer, who played in Etta James' backing band for 23 years, performed on three Grammy Award winning recordings with James and B.B. King and released four solo albums.
Longtime Etta James band guitarist Bobby Murray spent many years carefully honing his guitar-playing skills around the blues clubs of San Francisco and Oakland.

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While having fished all of his life, Mr. Murray came to the national fishing public’s attention when he won his first B.A.S.S. tournament, on Lake Eufaula, This was only the beginning of a storied career for this outstanding multi-species angler.

During his life, he has won over 40 regional and national tournaments, he’s received Master Angler status in alaska, for trout and salmon, and has landed trophy saltwater species, including a 964-pound tuna.

The single accomplishment that brought his name to national attention was his winning the very first Bassmasters Classic, in 1971, on Lake Mead, NV.

As much as this victory sealed his name in the record books, he proved, by winning the 1978 Bassmasters Classic, on Ross Barnett Reservoir, that he would attain legendary status.

In 1989 he was honored with an induction into the National Sport Fishing Hall of Fame; and in 1994 was elected to the Arkansas Outdoor Hall of Fame.

When he was listed in the Living Legends of American Sport Fishing, author Larry Columbo said, “this angler is one of the true superstars of American sport fish

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Bobby Murray

Though his major-league career consisted of only ten games with the Washington Senators in 1923, Bobby Murray devoted his entire life to baseball. A friendly, modest man with an impish smile and blue eyes that twinkled when he laughed, Murray enjoyed nothing more than teaching younger generations about the game he loved. “He was about as good an instructor of infield play as anyone I ever saw,” says long-time Dartmouth baseball coach and Vermont resident Tony Lupien, a former big-league first baseman. “You know, Murray and Larry Gardner were good friends. They both played ball the same way–shrewdly.”

Robert Hayes Murray was born in St. Albans on the Fourth of July, 1894. Thirty years earlier, the Franklin County shire town had been the scene of the northernmost engagement of the Civil War when a band of 22 Confederates robbed three banks and fled to the Canadian border nearby. At the time Murray lived there, St. Albans had a population exceeding 6,000, making it the fifth-largest city in Vermont. It was known as the “Railroad Ci

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Bobby Murray (musician)

American songwriter

Musical artist

Bobby Murray (born June 9, 1953) is an American electric blues guitarist, songwriter and record producer, who played in Etta James' backing band for 23 years, performed on three Grammy Award winning recordings with James and B.B. King and released four solo albums. In 2011, the Detroit Blues Society granted Murray their Lifetime Achievement Award. Murray currently leads his own band in Metro Detroit and has won several Detroit Music Awards. His latest solo recording, Love Letters From Detroit, was released in 2021 and was granted the Outstanding Blues Recording of the Year at the Detroit Music Awards.

His guitar playing was mainly influenced by Albert Collins and B.B. King. Murray currently resides in White Lake, Michigan, United States.^[2]

Life and career

Murray was born on a US Air Force base in Nagoya, Japan to a Japanese mother and an Irish father.^[1]^[2] Growing up in a military family, he was later raised in Tacoma, Washington.^[3] Murray attended the same hi