Jefferson Murphy
This is Volume Two of Three - The Carpenter’s Apprentice. It covers the years 1960 - 2020, and embodies 60 years of poems and song lyrics by author, poet and songwriter Jefferson Murphy, A.S.C.A.P. Jefferson learned how to make time for his writing even as he worked as a General Contractor for 30 years. He was also a disabled van driver for his good friend Vince Staskel. Coproducers Jefferson Murphy and Mark Avery Lavender Recorder Reggae/mid-eastern Album LM-A1 Meant To Be. (© 1985 Jefferson Murphy, A.S.C.A.P.) Jefferson Murphy is a former combat Medic, an ambulance driver, and teacher of English to 60 refugee children at Cao Xai Catholic School in Tay Ninh Province, in the former Republic of South Viet Nam. 1969 - 1970. Jefferson produced the Sal Mancuso Memorial Concert and Scholarship Fund, with the assistance of the Ossining Board of Education in 1989. For the past five years Jefferson has played his songs at open mic nights at clubs such as The Town Crier in Beacon, NY, The Derby in Poughkeepsie, NY, the Hosanna Korean-American Christian Church in Highland, NY, The (Famous) Falcon in Marlboro, NY, and Café Lena in Saratoga Springs, NY. Eleven years ago Jefferson started his street ministry, 'Jefferson Murphy’s Latter Day Ministry,' a non-denominational mission outreach to everyone everywhere all the time. He currently attends six different churches in Wendell, NC and six different churches in Milton, NY. Jefferson has three adult sons and an adult daughter, six grandsons, and five granddaughters. He gives all credit to Almighty God for every blessing he has been given, and amidst the turmoil in the streets today proclaims: 'A.L.M., meaning ALL LIFE MATTERS.'
