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We've collected some photos over the years and will continue to post more! If you have information about any of these images (who we should credit, or a story about the photo) please contact us. Thanks!
Willie & The Bees with Dr. John
Photo by John Botkin
Clyde
Greg Helgeson photo ran in the Reader in 1978 when the Bees released their first LP. Willie and Maurice are posing in the vegetable garden outside the Walker Church.
Willie at The Loring · Photo by Carla Tollefsrud
Photo by Rick Dublin
1996 · Bees Reunions at Sue Mclean’s Mill City Music Fest (Mpls Warehouse District). The festival lasted four years (1996-99). In 1996 Willie was declared the first Mayor of Mill City, an honor created by festival organizers. In 1997, Willie and the Angel-Headed Hipsters played the same festival, supporting their critically acclaimed Monkey in the Zoo album. Photo by Carla Tollefsrud
photo: John Botkin 2018
Willie Murphy, Steve Tibbetts, Steve Cochrane
Willie Murphy as "S.B." in the jail scene from Spider John Koerner's 1970 cult film The Secret of Sleep. A DVD of the Koerner-co-directed film, coupled with a CD of his 1972-released "Music is Just a Bunch of Notes" (backed by Willie & the Bees), plus a 16-page booklet, is available from Treehouse Records, [email protected]
Willie Murphy 1985 - photo by Larry Marcus
Willie Murphy & Dr. John
Mark Haynes, Willie Murphy, Donald “Hye Pockets' Robertson
Willie in 'The Insider' magazine, Oct. 1976
Contact Sheet from 'I've Got a Secret' Album
The Bees in the day! Photo by Rick Dublin
Photo by Richard Sinnott (Viking Bar, 1999)
Last night at the Viking - August, 2006
Willie, Taco, Max, Marbue
Willie and the Bumblebees with Dave Ray & Tony Glover sitting in. L to R: John Beach, Maurice Jacox, Jerome Broughten, Gene Hoffman, Voyle Harris, Howard Merriwether, Dave Ray, Willie Murphy, Tony Glover. Photo: Fred Case, probably late '70's, behind the DANCe Warehouse. Photo courtesy davesnakerray.com
Willie & The Bees promo contact sheet · photos by Rick Dublin
Jim Kogl, Willie Murphy, Michael Velasquez, Barb Brynstad, Max Ray, Scott Snyder. Lees Liquor Lounge, August 2017
Photo by Ridgezy Petersen (December 1983)
Willie Murphy, Steve Tibbetts, Steve Cochrane, Jan Reimer
Willie Murphy with burning mattress 1970 · photo by Ramon Muxter
Photo courtesy davesnakerray.com
photo: Tim Campbell
Photo by Marc Norberg
A Big Night at Famous Daves · front row, l to r: Curt Obeda, Willie, Hubert Sumlin, Rob Stupka, Curtiss A, Paul Metsa
Tom Attridge & Willie
Willie on 'The Insider' cover, Oct. 1976
Bees Reunion rehearsal, 2000 · Photo by John Swanson
Willie & the Bumblebees 1972. Photo: Ramon Muxter
photo: John Botkin 2018
Photo by Marc Norberg
1996 · Bees Reunions at Sue Mclean’s Mill City Music Fest (Mpls Warehouse District).
Max Ray, Willie Murphy, Hook & Ladder, Jan 2018 · photo: Nick Lethert
Willie Murphy & Steve Jamison
Willie at The Loring · Photo by Carla Tollefsrud
Hook & Ladder, Jan 2018 · photo: Nick Lethert
Early Bees (from Insider Magazine, 1976)
Lunch on Enchanted Island
Willie & Clyde, Riverside Park · Photo by Polly Vollmar-Heywood
Willie & The Bees
Photo by Jim Walsh (December 2018)
Dirtball Launch & 75th Birthday Bash, Eagles Club, November 2018
Spider John Koerner and Willie Murphy
