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[email protected] to your safe lists. Miss a newsletter? Looking for more? Visit our website at www.caa.wa.gov/news-and-events/newsletters CAAA Office will be closed September 1 NOW YOU KNOW Our office will be closed, Monday, September 1, 2018 for the Labor Day Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy holiday. We will reopen Tuesday, Blues Brothers Guitarist September 2 American blues guitarist Matthew Tyler Murphy, was a native of Sunflower, Mississippi but got his start in Memphis, Tennessee. Moving to Chicago in 1948, he joined the Howlin’ Wolf Band – playing with many artists including Etta James, Chuck Berry, Ike Turner, Muddy Waters and Memphis Slim. Murphy was considered essential to blues music in Chicago. In 1978, Murphy was approached for a musical project with Jim Belushi and Dan The Washington State of the Black Child Aykroyd, the creators of the Saturday Report Card 2018 Night Live skit The Blues Brothers. Based on the skit, the band went on The National Black child Development Institute several concert tours, recorded albums invites you to attend the 2018 and shot the 1980’s film, The Blues Report Card Launch. Various grassroots Brothers. In the film, Murphy portrayed the short-order cook and husband of his community forums and roundtable discussions waitress wife played by Aretha Franklin. with families and community leaders held this Between touring with The Blues Brothers, spring have yielded policy recommendations Murphy recorded his own albums and identified as the most significant for Black appeared in the film’s sequel Blues children and families.