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