"I guess I finally grew the balls to put it out": Jessie Murph Performs 'The Man That Came Back' on Opening Night of Sex Hysteria Tour in Phoenix, AZ

"I just dropped an album called Sex Hysteria," Jessie Murph told the screaming audience on the opening night of her worldwide tour at the Arizona Financial Theatre in Phoenix. "I wanna thank you guys for listening to it. This has been the most surreal week of my life in so many ways."

The 'Blue Strips' singer performed her deeply personal song, 'The Man That Came Back,' from her new album live for the first time at the Arizona Financial Theatre in Phoenix on the opening night of her tour, Sunday 27 July.

"I started making this album technically when I was 17," she sat down and explained halfway through the set, having already performed 'Touch Me Like a Gangster' and '1965,' along with other songs from the new album. "I made this next song when I was 17 and I was too scared to put it out because it's so personal. You know, it says some shit. I guess I finally grew the balls to put it out."

"It's really fucking scary, and I debated taking it off the set list tonight, but I've seen a lot of people posting videos to it and it's been making me really emotional," she went on. "I know that some of you guys have gone through the same thing. So tonight, we're gonna sing it together, it's called 'The Man That Came Back.'"

The stark piano ballad is one of the standouts from her latest album and already a firm fan favourite, as Murph recounts a story from her troubled upbringing with her alcoholic father and the violent domestic atmosphere she grew up in.

“The mother, the brother, the family you broke," she sings in the song, explaining how the cycles of violence and abuse continue into adulthood. "And the daughter who grew up trusting no one / And the bruises on her skin, the holes that you left in the walls”.

After opening her set with 'Gucci Mane,' the Alabama singer went on to perform a 28-song set filled with songs from her latest album and 2024's That Ain't No Man That's the Devil, such as 'Cold' and 'Wild Ones,' sadly without Jelly Roll, and 'What Happened to Ryan' with a fan, from her 2023 debut, Drowning. She closed the set with an extended version of 'Blue Strips.'

Sex Hysteria is out now on Columbia Records

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