ELLIOTT MURPHY Just A Story From America LP COLUMBIA 1977 US orig+inner+signed
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ELLIOTT MURPHY
with PHIL COLLINS, DAVE MARKEE, PETER OXENDALE plus MICK TAYLOR, CHRIS MERCER, STEVE GREGORY, MORRIS PERT, BARRY DeSOUZA, MIKE MARANNew York singer/songwriter whose 1973 debut, AQUASHOW, is a lost classic. A poetic lyricism is wedded to hard-edged arrangements by Long Island-born, Paris-based singer/songwriter Elliott Murphy. Although none of his songs have reached the Top 40, Murphy's influence is reflected through the music of Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, the Velvet Underground, and Talking Heads. Guests on Murphy's albums have included Shawn Colvin, Phil Collins, Billy Joel, Sonny Landreth, Bruce Springsteen, and members of the Violent Femmes, the Smithereens, Talking Heads, and the Velvet Underground. During Springsteen's 1996 European tour, Murphy was even invited on the stage in Paris to sing an acoustic duet version of his tune "Rock Ballad."
"JUST A STORY FROM AMERICA"
1977 LP COLUMBIA RECORDS STEREO PC 34653
PRINTED IN USA ORIGINAL PRESSING
HEAVY DUTY CARDBOARD COVER
STILL IN SHRINK WITH INNER SLEEVE
This version: signed with dedication by Elliott Murphy
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LABEL: COLUMBIA - GOLD/RED LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine) PC 34653 (rear) 34653
Catalog on labels: PC 34653 (AL 34653 / BL 34653)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched) Tl AL-34653-A-l2-C (Stamped): MASTERDISK
Other (Scratched out): BL 2HH
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched) Tl BL-34653--2-J (Stamped): MASTERDISK
Other (Scratched out): AL 3
On labels: ?1977 CBS Inc.
rim text reads '® "Columbia", Marcas Reg. Printed in U.S.A.'
On back cover: Produced and Engineered by Robin Geoffrey Cable
Recorded in London at Air......Marquee......Audio International.....
All songs published by Tender Night Music, Inc./Seldak Music, Inc.
Copyright 1976 (ASCAP)
©1977 CBS Inc. / 51 W. 52 Street, New York, N.Y.
® "Columbia", Marcas Reg.tracklisting
Side A: DRIVE ALL NIGHT - SUMMER HOUSE
JUST A STORY FROM AMERICA - ROCK BALLAD - THINK TOO HARD
Side B: ANASTASIA - DARLIN' (AND SHE CALLED ME)
LET GO - CAUGHT SHORT IN THE LONG RUN
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For his fourth album, Just a Story from America, Elliott Murphy moved on to his third major label, appropriately finding a
berth with Columbia Records, home of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. A follower of Dylan and a contemporary of Springsteen,
Murphy also attempts to invest rock & roll with poetry and then sings it in an alternately husky and whiny tenor.
For Just a Story from America, he traveled to London and recorded with a band including Genesis drummer Phil Collins
and, for a bluesy solo on "Rock Ballad," former Rolling Stone guitarist Mick Taylor. "Drive All Night" sets the scene early,
an uptempo rocker paced by a Farfisa organ reminiscent of Del Shannon, while the lyric reflects the same sense
of youthful adventure via a fast car on a highway that Springsteen describes so often. Murphy's artistic vision is
more urban and literary than Springsteen's, however, his short stories in song concern self-consciously arty
characters bent on an escape as much spiritual as economic. Murphy is, as ever, up-front about his influences,
putting a line from Raymond Chandler on the LP sleeve, crediting "Nick Caraway" (the narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald's
The Great Gatsby) for background vocals, and dropping movie names including Errol Flynn and Rhett Butler.
If Dylan uses names like that for comic and absurd effect, and Springsteen is serious about the lives of his
hometown heroes, Murphy is deliberately creating a rock & roll equivalent
for the novels and movies he loves...(AllMusic)
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