Showing posts with label Murray Attaway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Murray Attaway. Show all posts

Friday, August 9

Murray Attaway - Delirium (unreleased studio album) + bonus

LOSSLESS REPOST
Delirium
unreleased solo album by former Guad Diary frontman
mid-1990s
  
studio recording (sound quality Ex-; might be from a multi-gen. source, but it still has impressive sound quality)
    
Murray in the 1990s
photo by mixtapehero
Murray in the 2000s
photo by Shelia McIntosh via Flickr

WHAT'S THIS? This was to be Murray Attaway's second solo album, but for reasons unknown to me, it remains unreleased. To my ears, it sounds similar to his first solo album In Thrall (which I love), so I'm guessing the decision not to release it was unrelated to its artistic merits, which are considerable. The great Don Dixon produced.
  
REPERCUSSION: At the dB's now-defunct message board, Peter Holsapple referred to a recording session "that Murray did later on with Bill Bonk on bass and guitar, Will [Rigby] on drums, me on assorted instruments and Don Dixon producing and I believe playing bass. I couldn't tell you whether those recordings ever got released, but Murray, ever the sly dog, was sending around tapes of the songs calling the collection 'How I Spent My Thirties'." ROB SEZ: I have no reason to think this is not that very recording.

BY REQUEST

BIG THANKS to lilpanda for sharing this one with the fans

1. Prince Charming
2. Curve of the Earth
3. If the Walls Could Talk 
4. The Sun at Dusk
5. You Are There
6. Heroes In the Water
7. Long Hard Ride
8. Delirium
9. I Had an Answer
10. In a Dream
11. Free at Last
  

BONUS:
In their heyday, on the waterfront

Guad Diary interview with live tracks
"SoundCheck" Local TV arts program
Athens, GA
May 16, 1998

audio rip from video source (sound quality Ex-)

1. Part A
2. Part B

This has 3-4 great live songs from a show in Athens, GA interspersed with segments of a rather random and disorganized interview. Apologies for the lack of tracking and setlist; I just felt a little lazy this week...
  
FLAC
  
MP3@320 (snag this also if you want the bonus stuff, which is only available in lossy format)

Go to AllMusic to learn more about the music of Murray  Attaway HERE and Guad Diary HERE