Cliff Murphy – Bay State Lullaby [Vinyl]

This album documents me trying to make sense of major changes in my life – the end of an era (the 2003 breakup of Say ZuZu) and the start of an era (I got married, moved from a small town to the city, had two kids, and started a new career as an ethnomusicologist all during the time it took to complete this record). The album also finds me searching for my own musical voice outside of Say ZuZu. I wanted a sound built around an acoustic guitar, somewhere between Neil Young’s “Out On The Weekend” and Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried.” It was a time where my life deviated from the script that I thought had been written for me. I was, as the song says, happy and confused. This record helped me to sort out the confusion.A1. Take It On The Chin A2. Happy & Confused A3. Terminal Blues A4. Another Good Man Gone Bad A5. The Way I Was Back Then B1. Jesus, Do You Know This Lamb? B2. You & Me B3. Star B4. Gone Too Long B5. So Long Buddy B6. Medicine B7. Bay State Lullaby