{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox album| | name = Aquashow | type = Album | artist = Elliott Murphy | cover = Aquashow (Elliott Murphy album).jpg | alt = | released = 1973 | recorded = | venue = | studio = Record Plant East, New York City | genre = Rock | length = 37:09 | label = Polydor | producer = Peter K. Siegel | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Lost Generation | next_year = 1975 }} '''''Aquashow''''' is the 1973 debut album by singer-songwriter Elliott Murphy.
==Critical reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r13607|first=Brett|last=Hartenbach}}</ref> |rev2 = ''Christgau's Record Guide'' |rev2Score = A−<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: M|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=M&bk=70|access-date=March 8, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref> }} The album was reviewed by Paul Nelson in ''Rolling Stone'' along with Bruce Springsteen's ''The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle'' under the headline "He's the Best Dylan since 1968", which earned both artists the "New Dylan" tag.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.elliottmurphy.com/downloads/rsaquashow.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=September 26, 2016 |archive-date=July 23, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723125206/http://www.elliottmurphy.com/downloads/rsaquashow.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> When ''Aquashow'' was released on CD in 1988 it was reviewed by Robert Hilburn in the ''Los Angeles Times'' under the headline "A Compelling Aquashow", and in 2006, thirty-three years after the original release, the album was called an "Album Classic" in a full-page review in ''Uncut''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-07-ca-57-story.html|title = Archives|website = Los Angeles Times| date=August 7, 1988 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.elliottmurphy.com/downloads/uncut.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=September 26, 2016 |archive-date=October 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013074839/http://www.elliottmurphy.com/downloads/uncut.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Track listing== All tracks composed by Elliott Murphy
#"Last of The Rock Stars" #"How's The Family" #"Hangin' Out" #"Hometown" #"Graveyard Scrapbook" #"Poise 'N Pen" #"Marilyn" #"White Middle Class Blues" #"Like a Great Gatsby" (listed as "Like a Crystal Microphone" in the US edition to avoid violating copyrights on the novel) #"Don't Go Away"
==Personnel== *Elliott Murphy – vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano, backing vocals *Gene Parsons – drums, backing vocals *Tasha Thomas – backing vocals *Dennis Ferrante – backing vocals *Teddy Irwin – acoustic guitar *Jim Mason – backing vocals *Eddie Mottau – backing vocals *Linda November – backing vocals *Frank Owens – piano, organ *Pat Rebillot – piano and organ on "Hangin' Out", "Marilyn" and "Like a Crystal Microphone" *Maeretha Stewart – backing vocals *Dick Wagner – backing vocals *Matthew Murphy – bass, backing vocals *Rick Marotta – drums on "How's The Family" ;Technical *Shelly Yakus – recording engineer *Ed Sprigg, Rod O'Brien – tape operator *Paula Bisacca – artwork *Jack Mitchell – photography
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Category:1973 debut albums Category:Albums recorded at Record Plant (New York City) Category:Elliott Murphy albums Category:Polydor Records albums
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