Great Regulars: [Bill Morrissey's] standout performance at

the 1985 Newport Folk Festival and albums such as North (1986), Standing Eight (1989), and Night Train (1993) continued his legacy. He was known to work assiduously on his singing and songwriting. He was nominated twice for Grammy awards, for his 1993 collaboration with Brown, Friend of Mine, and his 1999 album, Songs of Mississippi John Hurt.

As his attention to lyrics suggests, he was also a published fiction writer and part of the creative-writing scene in the Northeast. His novel Edson (1996), about a musician in a New Hampshire mill town, drew critical praise. Chapters from a second novel, Imaginary Runner, were published as separate short tales; Runner was rumored to have been completed shortly before his death.

from John Timpane: The Philadelphia Inquirer: Bill Morrissey, 59, folk troubadour

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