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Peter Mulvey
Person · male · United States · born 1969
American musician
Timeline
1960s
Biography
Biography
Peter Mulvey (born September 6, 1969) is an American folk singer-songwriter based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Since the early 1990s, he has developed a strong national following in the indie folk/rock scene through his relentless touring and critically acclaimed albums. Starting his musical career in Milwaukee while at Marquette University, he honed his performing skills while traveling in Dublin, Ireland. He later spent several years in Boston, where he frequently performed in the city's subway system. He is best known for his warmly wry songwriting and his intense percussive guitar style.
Albums
1992 - Rabbit Talk (self-released demo tape)
1992 - Brother Rabbit Speaks (re-issued in 2001)
1994 - Rain (re-issued in 2001)
1995 - Rapture
1997 - Goodbye Bob (EP)
1997 - Deep Blue
1998 - Glencree (live album)
2000 - The Trouble with Poets
2002 - Ten Thousand Mornings (cover album recorded entirely in the Davis Square T Station)
2004 - Kitchen Radio
2005 - Redbird (with Kris Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault and David Goodrich)
2006 - The Knuckleball Suite
2007 - Notes from Elsewhere (acoustic retrospective album)
2009 - Letters from a Flying Machine
2009 - The Bicycle (limited edition Tour EP)
2010 - Redbird: Live at the Cafe Carpe (with Kris Delmhorst, Jeffrey Foucault, David Goodrich)
2011 - Nine Days Wonder (instrumental album with David Goodrich)
2012 - The Good Stuff
2012 - Chaser (EP, companion to The Good Stuff)
2014 - Silver Ladder
2017 - Are You Listening?
2018 - There Is Another World
2020 - Live at the Cafe Carpe (with SistaStrings)
2022 - Love Is the Only Thing (& SistaStrings) [named after the title song by Chuck Prophet and klipschutz]
Singles
2018 - The Fox
2018 - Fool's Errand
2022 - Who's Gonna Love You Now?
2020 - Don't You Ever Change (with SistaStrings)
2020 - You Are The Only One (with SistaStrings)
2020 - What Else Was It? (with SistaStrings)
2021 - Take Down Your Flag (with SistaStrings)
2021 - Asshole in Space
2022 - You and (Everybody Else) (with SistaStrings)
Compilations
1994 - "Acoustic Alliance: Vol. 1"
1995 - "Acoustic Alliance Vol. 2"
1998 - WXRV Presents: Live From River Music Hall, Vol. 1
2000 - Main Stage Live (Falcon Ridge Folk Festival)
2002 - WORDS: A Wisconsin Songwriter Compilation
2002 - Wonderland: A Winter Solstice Celebration
2004 - Signature Sounds 10th Anniversary Collection CD
2004 - Paste Magazine Sampler #4
DVDs
2004 - On The Way
2004 - Signature Sounds 10th Anniversary Collection DVD
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 3 | 16th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Peter Mulvey head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 3 | 16th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7175984genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7175984seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mulveybiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mulvey
Why this artist is in the database
- List of folk musicians
- List of singer-songwriters
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Kenneth C. Zirkel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q7175984 · MusicBrainz: a9e5337b-0608-4401-91d4-18ab4cf47ff8
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