SCI Fidelity Records
2007
Live At The Murat
About This Album
A press release announcing the appearance of Umphrey's McGee's two-CD set Live at the Murat calls it the band's "first official live album," which may come as some surprise to fans who thought the previous discs Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 (1998), Songs for Older Women (1999), and One Fat Sucka (2000) (not to mention the EP Local Band Does OKlahoma [2004] and the DVDs Live from the Lake Coast [2003] and Wrapped Around Chicago: New Years at the Riv [2005]) were sanctioned concert recordings. In its liner notes, the group puts it another way. "What we realized in late 2006," they write, "was that we had yet to release a live album that captured the band achieving the best of what we thought we could be." Live at the Murat (recorded over two nights in April 2007 at the Egyptian Room of the Murat Center in Indianapolis, IN) is that album, the band clearly states. Despite devoting much of its recording career to live performances, the band and its publicity firm's decision to position the set as something of a new beginning is understandable. As of the fall of 2007, Umphrey's McGee were coming up on a decade of professional work, which is long enough to expect that the band should no longer be defined as a developing act.
Track List

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Disc 2 (try tracks 1,2,3,4 and 5)

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