Murray McLauchlan (album)

Murray McLauchlan was a 1972 Folk Rock album by Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, broadcaster and actor, Murray McLauchlan.

Murray McLauchlan
Studio album by
Murray McLauchlan
Released1972
RecordedJune 1972
GenrePop, rock
LabelTrue North
ProducerEd Freeman
Murray McLauchlan chronology
Song from the Street
(1971)		 Murray McLauchlan
(1972)		 Day to Day Dust
(1973)

Murray travelled to New York City to record this album, between June and July at The Record Plant. This is evident in his backing musicians which include a number of well known American musicians of the time including Tony Levin, Charlie Hayward of the Charlie Daniels Band and David Spinozza. He also enlisted record producer Ed Freeman who had produced Don McLean's best selling album American Pie the previous year.[1]

The album is notable as well for containing the first known commercially released version of the Warren Zevon song "Carmelita", which will not be released by Zevon himself until 1976, and would later also be covered by Linda Ronstadt in 1977. McLauchlan would later perform a version of Carmelita on a 1989 TV show recorded at Toronto's Diamond Club featuring a vocal duet with Canadian alt-country singer Lori Yates.[2]

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "No Time Together Today" 3:32
  2. "Lady Soul" 3:05
  3. "I Wanna Watch You Move" 3:09
  4. "Old Man's Song" 3:26
  5. "Billy McDaniels" 2:47

Side 2

  1. "Lose We" 2:25
  2. "Quiet Places to Come Home To" 3:16
  3. "Carmelita" (Warren Zevon) 4:08
  4. "Big Bad City" 3:38
  5. "The Farmer's Song" 3:05

Personnel
  • Murray McLauchlan – vocals, guitar, piano
  • Charlie Hayward – bass
  • Richard Killgore - drums
  • Warren Bernhardt - keyboard
  • Mike Mainieri - vibes
  • Larry Kraman - synthesizer
  • Paul Prestopino - dobro
  • Eric Weissberg - mandolin
  • Tom Flye and the West 44th Street Rhythm and Noise Choir - additional drums and percussion
  • Raun MacKinnon - background vocals
  • Mike Wendroff - background vocals
  • Kathleen Whelan - background vocals
  • Allan Jacobs - background vocals
  • Jerry Burnham - background vocals

On Lady Soul

On Big Bad City

  1. "Murray McLauchlan release: Murray McLauchlan". MusicBrainz. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  2. "Murray McLauchlan Carmelita (Live with Lori Yates): Murray McLauchlan". YouTube. Retrieved 11 Oct 2020.



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