Murray McLauchlan
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Murray McLauchlan (born June 30, 1948) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist, and harmonica player.
Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, he emigrated to Canada with his family when he was five years old. At 17, he began playing at coffeehouses in Toronto's Yorkville area and later attended Central Tech as an art student before deciding to become a full-time musician. He is best known in Canada for his Canadian smash hits "The Farmer's Song" and "Down by the Henry Moore", which was about a sculpture in front of Toronto's city hall, where students met in the '60s and early 1970s. McLauchlan has had success in the pop, adult contemporary, country, and folk-music fields, with songs such as the Juno Award-winning "Farmer's Song" (1973), "Hurricane of Change" (also 1973), "Do You Dream of Being Somebody" (1975), and "Whispering Rain" (1979).
In 2004 Murray helped form a group known as "Lunch at Allens" featuring Murray, Marc Jordan, Cindy Church and Ian Thomas. Formed as a result of meeting in Toronto for lunch at Allens restaurant after Murrays heart bypass surgery. Two CDs have been released as a result of this collaboration: Lunch at Allens (2004) and Catch the Moon (2007). Currently, he performs with Ian Thomas, Cindy Church and Marc Jordan in "Lunch at Allens".
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[edit] Awards
He won Juno Awards on several occasions throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In 1993, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 1998, released Autobiography: The Ballad of Murray McLauchlan: Getting Out of Here Alive(Penguin/Viking Books).
[edit] Family
He is married to Denise Donlon and they have a son, Duncan.
[edit] Selected discography
- 1971 Song From The Street (True North)
- 1972 Murray McLauchlan (True North)
- 1973 Day to Day Dust (True North)
- 1974 Sweeping The Spotlight Away (True North)
- 1975 Only the Silence Remains (True North)
- 1976 Boulevard (True North)
- 1977 Hard Rock Town (True North)
- 1978 Greatest Hits (True North)
- 1978 Live at the Orpheum "Promo Only" (Columbia)
- 1979 Whispering Rain (True North)
- 1980 Into A Mystery (True North)
- 1981 Storm Warning (True North)
- 1982 Windows (True North)
- 1983 Timberline (True North)
- 1984 Heroes (True North)
- 1985 Midnight Break (True North)
- 1988 Swinging On A Star (Capitol)
- 1991 The Modern Age (Capitol)
- 1996 Gulliver's Taxi (True North)
- 2004 Lunch at Allens (Capitol/EMI)
- 2006 The Songbook: New Arrivals (Capitol/EMI)
- 2007 Catch the Moon: Lunch at Allens (Capitol/EMI)
- 2007 Songs from the Street: Best of Murray McLauchlan(True North)
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[edit] Further reading
Adria, Marco, "The Importance of Being Murray," Music of Our Times: Eight Canadian Singer-Songwriters (Toronto, Lorimer, 1990), pp. 103-20.
