niebank.com
my podcast
Murphy's Saloon Blues Podcast, Podcast Home of the Blues, is now more than two years old, with more than 100 episodes available, and I’m proud to have it available here (see the player below). I use the podcasting handle “Murphy” for a very simple reason: say my family name three times, quickly. C’mon, try it. Now imagine hearing my name spoken — can you say honestly you’d hear it correctly the first, or even the second time your heard it? I thought not. Hence, the pseudonym. I come by use of the name honestly — my paternal granny was named Rose Murphy. She came to the United States on a ship from Scotland in 1911, and first landed at Ellis Island in the New York Harbor.
Murphy's Saloon has an international audience of blues lovers, with listeners in places as diverse as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Singapore; Adelaide, Australia; Wellington, New Zealand; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Kyoto, Japan; Warsaw, Poland; Berlin, Germany; Paris, France; Lagos, Nigeria; Almaty, Kazakhstan; Bangalore, India, and the Shetland Islands, among other places, as well as a large number of cities and towns scattered across the United States and Canada. This is in no way a complete list. You can listen by using the player below, or subscribe free through the iTunes Music Store and receive each episode automatically after they are released each Sunday night (U.S. time). Other podcast aggregators, such as Juice or Doppler, will download podcasts for you, if you don't have or don't like the iTMS. There’s a clear, succinct description of podcasting, podcasts and how to listen to them at NoiPodRequired.com.
(A tip of the hat to my young cousin whose first name is Murphy.)
my brother
If you’re here because you did a search of the name “Niebank” while looking for information about a certain highly regarded Nashville-based producer/mixer/engineer, he’s my very talented brother. Out of respect for his privacy, I’m not going to help you contact him. Period. Try his agent. No, I don’t know his agent's name and/or phone number. Be warned: he’s a no-nonsense guy, he's usually busier than hell, and he won’t pass your songs to the artists with whom he works, so don’t even think about it.
how to spot a mad cow (joke!)
This site gets a noticeable amount of traffic in search of my re-designed version of a joke page about how to spot a Mad Cow. I thought I’d make the page easier to find by putting a link here.
about my résumé
My résumé is available as a downloadable .pdf file (left, above). Please feel free to email me with any further questions.
style notes
These pages were written to the XHTML 1.0 Strict Web design standards set by the W3C, so the appearance should be reasonably consistent, regardless of platform or browser. If the text is too large (a problem with Windows and PCs), the two easiest fixes are: reduce your browser’s default font size and/or increase your monitor’s resolution to at least 1024 x 768.
