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Red Wing - Colin Reece - Latest solo CD 2011

First release of original material for ten years.
Nine previously unreleased tracks and seven re-arranged and re-recorded songs from the earlier days. All brand new 2011 recordings.

The track listing is:

                    1 Red Wing intro                    9 The Madmen Of Gotham
                    2 CQ Prison Blues                 10 The Same Old Bandit
                    3 Let The Truce Begin          11 Rain Tyres And Footsteps
                    4 Southern Counties             12 Christmas In Copenhagen
                    5 What's The Matter             13 At The End Of The Day
                    6 Wozzaccurin                     14 Take Your Time
                    7 Appreciation                     15 Sad And Lonely Clown
                    8 An Island To Yourself        16 Red Wing Outro

The album features some of the best players and friends I’ve ever had the privilege of working with. They are Ian Cutler on electric violin, Fergus Feely on octave mandolin, Steve Shorey on electric and acoustic lead guitar, the sadly missed John ‘Smudger’ Smith on electric lead guitar, David ‘Rudgey’ Rudge on harmonica and Lindsey Collard (aka the Torbados Girl), Karen Hunter and Drew Millin on backing vocals.

I’m particularly happy about the fact that I managed to rescue some recordings my late mate Smudger and I made a couple of years ago. I took the solos he did on those recordings, freshened them up a bit and mixed them into the tracks on Red Wing, so the old sod is still playing from beyond the grave as it were. Smudger lives on.

The tune Red Wing itself is taken from a song written way back at the beginning of the 20^th Century about a young Red Indian maid which I have used to top and tail a song I wrote a long time ago about Charlie Chaplin called Sad and Lonely Clown (the last song on the album). The reason being that during the First World War the song was parodied with the words;

When the moon shines bright on Charlie Chaplin,

His boots are cracking

From want of blacking

And his little baggy trousers they need mending

Before we send him to the Dardanelles

Click on the underlined tracks to hear a brief section of the track.

All songs written by Colin and once again all brand new 2011 recordings.

No Choice For A Beggar - Colin Reece - Solo CD 2001

Colin's first album of totally original material for nearly sixteen years and to a large extent saw a return to his love of storytelling within song. All the songs on the album are self penned with the exception of 'Hold Me In Your Arms' which was written by two friends Karen Taylor and Tony Walker.

Featured players include Ian Cutler; electric violin, Ivan Jewell; Keyboards and Piano, Tee Marcheur; Slide Guitar and Karen Hunter, Deborah Joy Neal and Drew Millin on backing vocals.

The track listing is:

                                                             1 Spectre of a Smile
                                                             2 Preacher Ring The Bell
                                                             3 Barney
                                                             4 Hold Me In Your Arms
                                                             5 Easy Lady
                                                             6 Alice (Here's Your Wonderland)
                                                             7 The Rich, The Poor And Those That Want More
                                                             8 The Old King's Lament
                                                             9 Farewell To Reality

Click on the underlined tracks to hear a brief section of the track.

All songs written by Colin with the exception of Hold Me In Your Arms which was written by Karen Hunter and Tony Walker.