Title: Bay State Lullaby Artist: Cliff Murphy Label: Strolling Bones Recs Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 607396070138 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
