Just a Story From America

by Elliott Murphy

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 1977
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 35:24
  • Community rating: 3.68/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Elliott Murphy's 'Just a Story From America' continued his literate rock songwriting with a sharper transatlantic studio setting. The album blends narrative detail, romantic disillusionment, and mid-1970s rock arrangements into one of his strongest major-label statements.

Genres

Descriptors: male-vocalist, storytelling, piano, ballad, saxophone, male-vocals, acoustic, jangly, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Drive All Night (3:35)
  2. Summer House (3:20)
  3. Just a Story from America (2:32)
  4. Rock Ballad (5:02)
  5. Think Too Hard (3:29)
  6. Anastasia (5:09)
  7. Darlin' (And She Called Me) (3:47)
  8. Let Go (3:39)
  9. Caught Short In the Long Run (4:48)

Credits

  • Elliott Murphy - primary artist, guitar, vocals, organ, marimba, harmonica, tambourine, harmonium
  • Dave Markee - bass
  • Phil Collins - drums
  • Morris Pert - percussion
  • Peter Oxendale - piano, organ
  • Chris Mercer - saxophone
  • Steve Gregory - saxophone
  • Mick Taylor - guitar

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