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Samantha Murphy, aka The Highway Girl, secured a license through Limelight to record Johnny Cash’s “Ring Of Fire”. If you are were an independent artist ten years ago, and you wanted to cover a famous song, say, something like The Temptations’ “Just My Imagination,” you would have needed to find the original publisher or copyright administrator and go through a series of motions to clear your version.

http://www.americansongwriter.com/2010/09/next-big-nashville-spotlight-limelight//

John Simson is leaving his post as Executive Director of SoundExchange at the end of the year. So why not replace him with an artist? Not such a crazy idea, especially considering the organization’s charter. And now, one artist – Samantha Murphy – is gunning for the spot.

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/071310soundexchange#3FMtonrV2-LdA2n474r2Nw/

Roku has continued to add functionality to its family of streaming media players, and announced Wednesday two new services: MHz Networks on Demand and Highway Girl.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10451691-1.html/

On the road for most of her life, Samantha Murphy, aka the Highway Girl, is bringing her live set and a lot more to her first official SXSW appearance. While she is a singer-songwriter and performer, the Highway Girl also spends her extra time featuring other artists on her own show.

http://www.spinner.com/2010/03/06/sxsw-2010-the-highway-girl/

Samantha delivered one of the most unusual startup pitches I have seen. She sang a song about raising money and building a business. Wow! Samantha is an incredibly talented singer /songwriter.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/20/ten-startups-debut-at-techstars-demo-day/

In a more perfect world, this music would be inescapable. You would be hearing it on the radio, in commercials, in movies, and of course coming out of your iPod earphones as you worked out.

http://www.puremusic.com/65samanth.html

After growing up as a performer in the early 90’s, I got my first taste of the inside of the music industry when I signed with Warner Chappell Publishing as a staff songwriter. I wrote with some of the top producers but began to see that the way things worked inside the music industry machine didn’t always make sense. In fact, I felt like they rarely ever made sense.

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cea/vision0309/#/26

Transparency is Clearly the Answer
By Samantha Murphy

As an independent musical artist traversing the waters of the digital age, my greatest desire as we transition into a new Music Industry is for transparency to lead the way.

http://citp.princeton.edu/symposium/?p=28

So what does digital freedom mean to artists? Just ask one of our favorite songwriters, digital rights spitfire Samantha Murphy, who has been busy weighing in on the advent of the digital indie artist:

“Whether you like it or not (and I happen to love it), the Internet and technology are front and center in today’s world. As artists, there’s nowhere we can’t reach and, for the first time, no one is standing in the way of our fans.”

http://blog.ce.org/index.php/2008/05/21/freedom-of-expression-the-future-of-music/

Samantha’s new single, Days Like This, and music video is pre-loaded into RCA’s entire new line of MP3 players and will be available May 1st.
Check out her Digital Freedom video:

http://dcdoestx.blogspot.com/2008/03/dc-does-tx-spotlight-samantha-murphy.html