Peter Mulvey is an American folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

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 based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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. Since the early 1990s, he has developed a strong national following in the indie folk/rock scene through his relentless touring and critically acclaimed albums. Starting his musical career in Milwaukee while at Marquette University

Marquette University

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, he honed his performing skills while traveling in Dublin, Ireland

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. He later spent several years in Boston

Boston

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, where he frequently performed in the city's subway system. He is best known for his dark songwriting and his intense percussive guitar style.

Albums

• 1992 - Rabbit Talk (self-released demo tape)
• 1992 - Brother Rabbit Speaks (re-issued in 2001)
• 1994 - Rain (re-issued in 2001)
• 1995 - Rapture
• 1997 - Goodbye Bob (EP)
• 1997 - Deep Blue
• 1998 - Glencree (live album)
• 2000 - The Trouble With Poets
• 2002 - Ten Thousand Mornings (cover album recorded entirely in the Davis Square T Station)
• 2003 - Redbird
  Redbird (Redbird album)
  Redbird is the title of a recording by Jeffrey Foucault, Kris Delmhorst and Peter Mulvey, released in 2003.-History:All three are artists on the Signature Sounds label and regularly toured together. Foucault and Delmhorst are married. The trio worked out many of the songs on the road allowing them...
  
  (with Kris Delmhorst
  Kris Delmhorst
  Kris Delmhorst is an American singer-songwriter who is part of the Boston folk scene. She was involved in producing 1998's Respond compilation, a fundraiser for domestic violence groups, and it included her song Weatherman. In 1999, she released a live album with The Vinal Avenue String Band,...
  
   and Jeffrey Foucault
  Jeffrey Foucault
  Jeffrey Foucault is a singer-songwriter from Whitewater, Wisconsin. His 2001 debut album, Miles from the Lightning, won much praise from critics and helped to kick-start a career of tours across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Along the way, he has played with such artists as Greg Brown,...
  
  )
• 2004 - Kitchen Radio
• 2006 - The Knuckleball Suite
  The Knuckleball Suite
  The Knuckleball Suite is the seventh album by singer-songwriter Peter Mulvey. Produced in 2006 by David Goodrich and released by Signature Sounds, it contains a cover of the U2 song "The Fly", along with the following tracks:-Track listing:...
  
  
• 2007 - Notes from Elsewhere
  Notes from Elsewhere
  Notes From Elsewhere is an album from American singer/songwriter Peter Mulvey, released in 2007.Notes from Elsewhere is a retrospective compilation of songs Mulvey has recorded and performed over his career...
  
  (acoustic retrospective album)
• 2009 - Letters from a Flying Machine
• 2009 - The Bicycle (limited edition Tour EP)

Compilations

• 2000 - Main Stage Live (Falcon Ridge Folk Festival)
• 2002 - WORDS: A Wisconsin Songwriter Compilation
• 2002 - Wonderland: A Winter Solstice Celebration
• 2004 - Signature Sounds 10th Anniversary Collection CD

External links

• Official Website
• Fan Website - MulveyFan.org
• Peter Mulvey collection at the Internet Archive
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  's live music archive
• Peter Mulvey Interview on VOA