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Red Wing - Colin Reece
Colin's first release of
original material for ten years. The track listing is:
1 Red Wing intro 9
The Madmen Of Gotham "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 20th 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.
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extent
sees 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.
songs he can be heard
singing during his
performances on the British pub circuit. This, coupled with a
long-standing desire by Colin to
record an all acoustic album, has led to 'Going
Back'. An album of classic
tracks given a totally acoustic treatment. No bass, no drums. Just
acoustic guitar, mandolin, a hint of keyboard on one track and, of course, the
distinctive Reece vocal.
mind, Colin has
nevertheless always felt that he only gets a chance to sing some
of the best songs ever written for about three or four weeks of
the year and thus has always wanted to record a Christmas CD.
sell out 2006 Bully Wee Band tour, the lads
recorded three of the shows. The CD of those recordings
is now available and can be downloaded from