A burly, shaggy man with a big growly voice, Stefan Murphy writes gold-toothed Cathoholic blues tunes, ballads, shitkickers and swamp rock shanties, some of them odes to folk like Johnny Thunders and Jeffrey Lee Pierce. On TMS & the Baptists, his third album, Stef bellows protest songs, love songs, Saturday night out-of-it songs and Sunday morning coming down songs. Strong stuff.