If you\'re visiting this site for the first time, let me introduce myself. I\'m Scott Moses Murray, aka Moses aka Scott-Mo aka just plain Mo to at least one friend. This is one place you can hear my music and spend the hard-earned inheritance of your children on it. Let me put this in perspective. The $12.99 you spend on this disc today will be worth $1208.72 in forty years if you invest it at 12%. And to put that in perspective, the $5.99 you\'d spend on a fast food meal would be worth $557.67. But the food will be gone in 10 minutes and you\'d have a bellyache. Buy the disc. It\'s the only one here with a money-back guarantee. And don\'t forget to leave a review at the bottom of the page. Thanks!
Gratuitous Name Dropping Section:
Ben Folds\' producer John Mark Painter engineered and played along with some of Nashville\'s best musicians, including Hank III drummer Sean McWilliams.
Rough take:
Singer/songwriter Scott Moses Murray delivers acoustic-driven pop rock that takes a fresh, imaginative look at the human condition. Honest and intelligent and occasionally cockeyed, Murray\'s music has won critical comparisons to Bruce Cockburn, the Wallflowers, the Flaming Lips and U2.
Stutter, Murray\'s most recent recording, explores high-risk topics ranging from love and war to personal responsibility and cosmetic surgery. Murray has worked as a volunteer on five continents, none of which had either a North or South Pole. He brings his experience in other cultures to his music, whether in the political awareness of \'Belgrade Station\' or the African rhythms of \'Leaving the Night\'. Also the weird-awareness of \'70 Virgins\'.
Stutter charted at radio stations across the country and continues to receive regular airplay at hundreds of college and independent stations nationally and internationally. Murray has visited stations across the US and in Central America for live on-air broadcasts.
They said it, not me:
\"If he isn\'t on radio, he should be. If you haven\'t heard his music, you will. Scott Murray is a wonderful antidote to the bling bling power punk boy band drivel being fed into your musical diet. Go back for several helpings on this one.\"
Robyne Robinson, Fox 9 Minneapolis
\"Scott Moses Murray seems to be on to something here. Despite its title, his new album is a remarkably articulate affair, filled with soaring melodies and thoughtful pop platitudes. It reflects a degree of skill and musicality not often seen so early in a music career, while at very least, it bodes well for future endeavors.
But let\'s cut back to the hear and now. The opening track \"Dry Bones\" is a profound introduction, a steady and assured melody that rips loose at the chorus and sends the song surging forth with an urgency and optimism that\'s wholly exhilarating. It remains the highlight of this ten-song set, but certainly not its only moment of triumph. \"Breathe into Me,\" \"Love for the Sake of Love,\" \"The Name of Love\" and \"Leaving the Night\" come across as ever so seductive, alluring encounters that blend Murray\'s metaphysical allusions with his haunting, assured arrangements.
While the album\'s airy ambiance tends to give the album a consistent tone throughout, a few of the songs attempt to break free of this mix. \"Belgrade Station,\" a political rumination in the form of a reflective ballad, sounds like something Bono and the boys might tackle on their next album. Likewise, the dreamy \"Long Way Down\" offers a hint of Beatlesque designs, without any obvious allusions. Similarly, \"Gun to Your Head\" shows Murray\'s penchant for concocting confident rockers with catchy, can\'t miss choruses.\"
Lee Zimmerman, Entertainment News & Views
\"... eloquent, sensitive, searching songs fed by Scott\'s experiences traveling the world building schools and hospitals. Scott\'s exploration of spirituality comes through in his songs, and not only in the ones where he makes direct references to God. His love songs... left me wondering whether they were odes to a mortal or the divine. I didn\'t notice when I\'d hit the repeat button. I didn\'t expect to find what I did within Scott\'s album, and I certainly didn\'t expect to have it change the way I thought about myself and my place in this world.
Vanessa Moore, Demorama
\"Ah...the moment \"Dry Bones\" hits you right between the eyes is a special one... \"But I don\'t believe that it\'s over now/These dry bones can breathe again...\" Amen, brother! With the verve of Bono, the passion of Martin (delirious?) Smith and the attitude of David Crowder, Murray presents his God-centric offering without a hint of self-consciousness. This is special, indeed.\"
Kevin Mathews, Fufkin
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