Living With Ghosts album CD
Twelve songs exploring love, faith, loneliness, and the mysterious experiences of a young songwriter coming of age in the early 1970s.
The third album from Marc Cushman and WHATSTHEIRNAME features 12 original songs written between July 1973 and May 1974, when Cushman was 18 and 19 years old. Following the releases of Lost in the Crowd and On the Rocks, this collection continues the rediscovery of Cushman's long-hidden musical archive, revealing another chapter in his early songwriting.
Inspired in part by a house Cushman believed was haunted, Living With Ghosts explores the unsettling side of life alongside more personal themes of love, faith, and loneliness. The songs also reflect the atmosphere of the era, with cultural touchstones ranging from the release of The Exorcist to the kidnapping of Patty Hearst.
Musically, the album moves through an eclectic mix of rockabilly, country-rock, indie folk, rhythm & blues, spirituals, and haunting ballads. Recorded more than five decades ago and now restored and remastered for release, these songs reveal a young songwriter experimenting with different styles while tackling subjects and emotions that reached well beyond his years.
With three albums released in three consecutive months, Marc Cushman has now made 41 songs publicly available from a catalog of nearly 400 songs written and recorded between 1972 and 2008. Living With Ghosts continues the release of a musical legacy that remained largely unheard beyond his family, friends, and fellow musicians for decades.
WHATSTHEIRNAME ® group features a combination of studio singers and musicians, with the original analog and digital recordings enhanced through state-of-the-art restoration, augmentation and remastering technology.
