Title: Bay State Lullaby Artist: Cliff Murphy Label: Strolling Bones Recs Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 607396070114 Genre: Country Release Date: 2026-04-24 Number of Discs: 1
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.
Tracks: 1.1 Take It on the Chin 1.2 Happy ; Confused 1.3 Terminal Blues 1.4 Another Good Man Gone Bad 1.5 The Way I Was Back Then 1.6 Jesus, Do You Know This Lamb? 1.7 You ; Me 1.8 Star 1.9 Gone Too Long 1.10 So Long Buddy 1.11 Medicine 1.12 Bay State Lullaby 1.13 Take It in Stride (Bonus Track) 1.14 Wreck on the Highway (Bonus Track) 1.15 Pecan Pie (Bonus Track)
