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Smoke Up Close
30-track double-cd released Nov 2002
Currently SOLD OUT – available for download worldwide via iTunes.co.uk
‘Smoke up close’ is an acoustic album of 30 songs, written in three months and recorded in seven sessions. “No overdubs, no edits. Because I said I would,” said Colin. “I needed to stand naked in front of the world.”
Encouraged by the audience reaction to the acoustic tours, Colin took the opportunity to create songs and record them without any of the lavish arrangements often associated with his work.
As 30 acoustic tracks spread across two CDs, it’s demanding of listeners and one of his least accessible works. But while the album can be challenging, as single albums (or tracks shuffled on an iPod, perhaps?) the music here is among Colin’s most touching and most rewarding.
While ‘Water on snow’ could have been a Black album, Colin insisted that ‘Smoke up close’ was too personal to ever be anything but a Colin Vearncombe solo album.
Tracklisting:
CD1: The Wishing, Seeds and stalks, Dying for the quarter, It doesn’t matter now, If not you then who?, The Bride, Come to me, Graves of rockers, River ride women, Different lies, Having a good time, Radio silence, When I was him, Joni, She loves my life.
CD2: History of rock and roll, Quinn’s old flame, Child’s play, Summer rain, After life, The hurting kind, Trouble forgot you, Thumbnail, Waitin’, Murphy, Needle time, Stormy waters, The Sunshine, That was yesterday, Blonde trouble