Elliot Murphy: Night Lights (RCA)
Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, March 1976
Lost Generation, the second album by this hero-obsessed New Yorker, made it clear that Murphys haughty, proper-noun-laden style could be undercut by unsympathetic or insensitive studio guidance.
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