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Article: This one's for Dad!; Welsh folk singer Julie Murphy was devastated by the untimely death of her father. But through her grief she has managed to create her first album, which has earned national plaudits. Ali Stokes met this brave woman.(Features)
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- South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- August 10, 2002
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Byline: Ali Stokes
IT took the painful and sudden death of her father for Welsh folk singer Julie Murphy to produce the most beautiful work of her career. When her father, Edward, was killed in a road accident near his Blackpool home three years ago, the Welsh-speaking singer decided to write songs in his memory.
The result is The Lilac Tree, her first album of personal and original songs, which has earned her heaps of praise in the national music media and drawn comparisons with the likes of new folk singers Kathryn Williams. Recorded live in just four ...
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