Polydor Records released Elliott Murphy’s first album Aquashow in 1973. He was immediately hailed by critics as the new Bob Dylan. Since then, he’s released over twenty albums and has toured throughout the world with his band, along with musicians from such groups as The Rolling Stones, The Eurythmics, Violent Femmes, and Bruce Springsteen. He is regarded by many as one of the most passionate, literate and intelligent songwriters of his time, and his admirers include Peter Buck of R.E.M., Lou Reed, Tom Petty, John Mellencamp and Elvis Costello.
While on tour, he began writing Café Notes, fictional travel observations from the cafés of Venice, Prague, Vienna, Brussels, Paris and New York. These luminous snapshots of everyday life blend reality with fantasy while focusing upon a time and a place. His characters dance, drink, live, love, and hate in ways that bring to mind a latter-day Fitzgerald or Hemingway, though with a Fellini-esque touch of humor and scale. Romantic and lyrical yet unflinchingly honest and irreverent, Café Notes takes us on a journey of the world and of the imagination that we won’t soon forget.