James Franklin Murphy is world renown for his contributions to the American art of DEATH METAL. By form of his own guitar skills, recordings and live performances. He has been a guest (lead) guitarist on many of the top bands of said genre and beyond.
see reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Murphy_(guitarist)
He has also and continues to promote, produce, and engineer many bands and their works under his own recording label as well as other top labels.
We petitioners would ask that James Franklin Murphy be awarded with the Kennedy Center Honors.