Lauren Murphy Music           

• ' Finely crafted songs from the heart that sweep you off your  feet’  Jambase 

                                                           Psychedelic Hippie~Witch Music 

Grassroots power vocals & haunting melodies. Folk, Country, Blues, & Psychedelic Rock. 

                           Listen to Lauren's vast Online Discography on Topic via Youtube here         

         https://youtube.com/channel/UCShF4S4QlRMjaA6xK92E2JA?si=MMyMykO5cd3fky36

Songwriter and vocalist Lauren Murphy, has spent close to two decades composing and performing with some of the Nation's best musicians from California to New Orleans to the Florabama line. A versatile writer and performer, Relix Magazine describes her as “Lady Willpower”. Her writing genres span from folk, country, blues, & jazz, to psychedelic rock and roll.

Murphy is a staunch survivor who brings her life experience into the foundations of her music. In 2013 , after 4 years of caregiving for her co-writer / performer husband, he passed of Cancer and Organ transplant rejection. A few months later, she buried her father who had committed suicide. In the Fall of 2021 at the height of her band, ‘The Psychedelics’, Murphy's drummer & co-writer died suddenly in a tragic accident…..and Murphy retreated from public life. 

After taking time to heal among the marshes of South Louisiana, she released the edgy folk waltz,  ‘Ol Coquille’ , (2025) with Grammy winning Cajun artists Louis Michot & Jonny Campos(Lost Bayou Ramblers) to strong reviews and airplay. 

Lately, she's been burning up the road touring from New Orleans to San Francisco, to 30A.  Murphy has also revived her award winning band, The Psychedelics.

Regardless of where or whom she shares a stage with, as Johnny Cole of the Southland Music Line so aptly wrote 

 “Lauren Murphy, alone or with her latest music ensemble, Lauren Murphy & The Psychedelics, bring the very essence of the 'southern roots' meets the classic ‘San Francisco sound’ to the stage. Having performed w/ some of the Bay Area's most famous & respected musicians as well a top Southern troubadours, she can always be found delighting audiences everywhere with her inimitable style. In a crowded field of sometimes repetitious music & mediocracy, it's refreshing to experience Murphy's gift for originality & soul-stirring performances.”

SEMINOLE WIND ~ 4/27/2025 CITY OF SLIDELL BAYOU JAM 

 Lauren Murphy, Entertainer (4:13) from Appleberry Pictures on Vimeo.

Over the winter of 2021-22, Lauren Murphy released her 5th CD, 'Psychedelics', to Nationwide Acclaim. This album was picked up by famed publicist Dennis McNally. 

Compared to Janis Joplin & Grace Slick, Murphy's powerhouse vocals & passion have a grit all her own. Well known for her time in ZERO(Produced by Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter) with guitarist, Steve Kimock and her late husband, The Judge, Lauren has been dubbed "Lady Willpower" by Relix Magazine. 

'WWOZ NoLa Jazz & Heritage Radio" says "Excellent", and 'No Depression Magazine' reviews Murphy as “Simply Brilliant.”  

Having worked w/ Papa Mali, members of Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Jerry Garcia Band, Wavy Gravy, Grayson Capps, Melvin Seals, the Jefferson Airplane, Will Kimbrough, and many more music Royalty, Murphy is now the keeper of the flame of a genre that began in the mid-1960's, pushing the limits of form and improvisation while remaining true to the message of song and sound. She is likewise a stand-alone songwriter who Jambase reviews as penning "songs from the heart, the real deal." She has been featured at Silverhill, Al's legendary Frog Pond Sunday Social Folk Allian House Concerts for 9 consecutive seasons. Her music can be heard on radio stations from the West to East Coasts, as well as in Europe. Murphy was a featured performer at the 35th & 36th Annual Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival and performed for 2 sold out nights at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall, for Zero's 25th Anniversary shows in 2019. She is locally featured as an Ozone Foundation Songwriter in her native Louisiana. 

Lauren Murphy w/ ZERO (Steve Kimock, Melvin Seals (JGB), Pete Sears(Jefferson Airplane), Greg Anton, Hadi AlSadoon, & Sebastian St. James

LIVE from THE GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL 

The Below is In Memoriam to Lauren's late husband and music partner of 17 years, The Judge . 

We miss you! #NFA

FOOTAGE FROM THE JUDGE MURPHY MEMORIAL ~ LAUREN PERFORMS "EL DORADO", THE TITLE TRACK FROM HER SOLO RECORD ‘El Dorado’. BY APPLEBERRY PICTURES

Lauren Murphy - El Dorado - Mystic, Petaluma CA 10/25/13 from Appleberry Pictures on Vimeo.

IN MEMORIAM TO OUR JUDGE MURPHY 1950-2013 SEPT 15, 2013 : "It is with great sadness that we share the news that our beloved brother Judge Murphy passed away this afternoon at 1:05PM pst. He was in his mountain home surrounded by the deep love of his family & friends. His courage and strength have been nothing short of heroic. We love you Judge; you will be deeply missed and always remembered." Judge joined Zero in 1991, adding a voice to a band that had previously focused on instrumental material. More recently he fronted Lansdale Station with longtime partner Lauren Murphy.

Zero - Spoken For - Great American Music Hall SF - 3/4/11 from Appleberry Pictures on Vimeo.