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Mum's The Word - Colin Reece
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This latest album from Colin was recorded chiefly during the Covid Lockdown
months of March 2020 and May 2021 and hopefully displays that some good can
come out of the frustrations of being unable to take part in live
performance.
As usual the album features some guest musicians in the shapes of Peter Knaggs
on Electric Guitars and Bass, Steve Shorey
on Electric Guitars and Ukulele, Paul Matthews on Acoustic & Electric Pianos
and Hammond Organ, Ian Cutler on Bridge Aquila Electric Violin with Jim
Yardley on Mandolin (almost the Bully Wee Band), Deborah
Neal on accordion and Nina Knaggs on Backing Vocals.
The miracle of the Internet enabled us all to play together whilst keeping
our social distances - except for me and Debs of course.
The
track listing is:
1
Black Cat (Reece) - Featuring Peter Knaggs
2 Even Hookers Sing The Blues (Reece) - Featuring
Paul Matthews)
3 When You Walk In The Room (DeShannon)
4 Laughlin Boy (Grammer) - Featuring Ian Cutler & Jim Yardley
5 Back On Your Feet (Reece)
6 You Belong To Me (Price, King & Stewart)
7 If I Should
Fall Behind (Springsteen) - Featuring Nina Knaggs
8 Mum's The Word (Reece) - Featuring Steve Shorey &
Paul Matthews
9 Funny 'Bout Love (Bonneville) - Featuring Peter &
Nina Knaggs and Paul Matthews
10 You've Got a Friend (King) - Featuring Peter and
Nina Knaggs
11 The Days Of Pearly Spencer (McWilliams) - Featuring Steve
Shorey
12 The Baron And The Busker (Bond)
13 The Night Rider's Lament (Burton) - Featuring Deborah Neal
14 Easy Lady (Reece) - Featuring Peter Knaggs & Paul Matthews
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Perfect Vision - Colin Reece
Latest solo CD 2020
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This latest album from Colin is yet another selection of songs carefully
selected from his past and more recent repertoire.
Maybe a little more rootsy this time, included are covers of songs as far ranging as those from
Lennon & McCartney, Paul Simon, Tom Paxton, Emmylou Harris and Al Stewart.
Also included is a song written by Colin's friend Nick Cann displaying
Nick's wicked sense of humour as well as his fine songwriting talent.
A welcome return goes to Colin's long term Bully Wee Band buddy Ian Cutler
for a storming up-to-date re-recording of Colin's song 'Tween Me And You,
originally recorded on their Face To Face album.
As usual the album features some guest musicians in the shapes of Peter Knaggs
on Electric Guitars, Ian Cutler on Bridge Aquila Electric Violin, Deborah
Neal on accordion. and Nina Knaggs & John White on Backing Vocals.
The
track listing is:
1
Waterbound (Powell) - Featuring Deborah Neal
2 And I Love Her (Lennon/McCarney)
3
Promises (Feldman/Linn)
4 Love Can Build A Bridge (Judd/Overstreet/Barlow)
- Featuring Peter & Nina Knaggs
5 Duncan (Simon)
6 'Tween Me And You
(Reece) - Featuring Ian Cutler
7 Under African
Skies (Simon) - Featuring Peter & Nina Knaggs and Deborah Neal
8 Sam The Railwayman (Cann)
9 Wild Flying Dove (Paxton)
10 Boulder To Birmingham (Harris/Danoff)
11 Canadian Whisky (Russell)
12 Samuel, Oh How You've Changed (Stewart)
13 Red River Valley (Trad Arr.Reece)
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Way Below The Tide - Colin Reece
Latest solo CD 2017
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The latest
album from Colin is another selection of songs carefully selected
from his past and more recent repertoire.
They include covers of songs as far ranging as those from Sydney
Carter, Arthur Alexander, Paul Rodgers and Tim Hardin. Also included is a
new song from Colin's friend John Cunningham and the
traditional Irish ballad Carrickfergus.
The album title track Way Below The Tide is a re-recording of
Colin's self-penned song concerning the Scottish Great Silkie legend
that, at certain times, seals may come ashore, remove their coats and take
human form. Originally recorded by the Bully Wee Band on the Madmen of
Gotham album, Colin felt it was time to reintroduce the song to the world, thus its inclusion on the album.
The album features some guest musicians in the shapes of Peter
Knaggs and Steve Shorey on guitars, Marc Woodward on mandolin, John
Cunningham on backing vocals and Colin's life partner Deborah Neal
on accordion.
The
track listing is:
1 Reason To Believe (Tim Hardin) - Featuring Deborah Neal
2 Carrickfergus (Trad)
3 Graceland (Paul Simon)
4 Sierra (Boz Scaggs)
- Featuring Peter Knaggs and Marc Woodward
5 Way Below The Tide (Colin Reece)
6 The Ladies Are The Loving Kind
(Allan Taylor) - Featuring Deborah Neal
7 The Crow On The Cradle (Sydney Carter)
8 Shooting Star (Paul Rodgers) - Featuring Peter Knaggs
9 Everyone Was There (John Cunningham)
10 You Better Move On (Arthur Alexander)
11 Four Strong Winds (Ian Tyson)
12 There's A Place In The World For A Gambler (Dan
Fogelberg) Featuring John Cunningham and Steve Shorey
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Cool Covers - Colin Reece
Latest solo CD 2015
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A new album of
songs that Colin has always wanted to record.
From Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Mark Knopfler and Paul McCartney
to songs he used to sing way back in his days of floor-spotting
around
the London and Kentish folk scene. This is a fine collection
of songs
given Colin's unique treatment and arrangement, and on which he
sings
all the lead and backing vocals and plays acoustic and electric
rhythm & lead guitars, mandolin & octave mandolin, banjo, piano &
keyboards, bass and drums. Deborah Neal is featured on
accordion as is Steve Shorey on
electric guitar.
Not to be
missed.
The
track listing is:
1
You Ain't Going Nowhere (Bob Dylan) - Featuring Deborah Neal
2
Late In The Evening (Paul Simon)
3
Cat's In The Cradle (Harry Chapin)
4 Why Worry (Dire Straits)
5
Mole In A Hole (Mike Waterson) - Featuring Deborah Neal
6
Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway (Gerry Rafferty)
7 How Long/That's Where I Belong (Mark Knopfler) -
Featuring Deborah Neal
8 I Only Want To Be With You (Dusty Springfield)
9 No Surrender (Bruce Springsteen)
10 Dead Skunk (Loudon
Wainwright) - Featuring Deborah Neal
11 Brain Damage (Pink Floyd)
12 I Will (Paul McCartney)
13 Tomorrow Is A Long Time (Bob Dylan)
14 Pilgrim (Steve Earle) - Featuring Steve Shorey
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Good
and Plenty - Colin Reece
Latest solo CD 2013
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With brand new recordings of three
originals from previous, now unavailable, vinyl albums, four new
originals and four covers of songs
by Steve Earle, Tom Waits , Bruce
Springsteen and Mark Knopfler, this new album sees Colin with a list
of songs that he would probably
describe as 'a mixed bag consisting of past, present and personal
favourites'.
The album features guest appearances
by long term partner Steve Shorey on magnificent electric lead
guitar and the beautiful dulcet tones of the equally beautiful and
dulcet Karen Ann Hunter on harmony vocals.
Also featured is Colin's late great
mate John 'Smudger' Smith with some cameo appearances on mandolin,
fiddle and guitar which were lifted from some recordings the two of
them did together a few years ago.
The
track listing is:
1
So Many Times
2
Execution Row
3
Land of Good and Plenty
4
No Surrender
5
Pilgrim
6
I Let Me Down
7 Running Away
8 How Long/That's Where I Belong
9 Love's Never Powerless
10 I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
11 Defending
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Revisited - Colin Reece
Latest solo CD 2013
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It seems that
most performers reach a stage in their life when they get the urge
to revisit and acknowledge their roots.
This is a newly
recorded album of songs I sang or heard other people sing, but never
got the chance to record, way back when I first realised there was
more to music than the Beatles.
The
track listing is:
1
Poor Wayfaring Stranger
2
Peggy Gordon
3
The Ballad Of Seth Davy
4
Step It Out Mary
5
Like The Snow
6
Fiddler's Green
7
Portland Town
8
The Parting Glass
The front
cover is an interesting picture of the King's Head Hotel in
Rochester, Kent and as such gives a 'nod' to the old Wish It Was A
Brewery Folk Club of the 70s and 80s, which was the time and place I
first learned to love these songs.
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Revisited
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Red Wing - Colin Reece
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Colin's 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 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'"
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Red Wing
All songs written by Colin and once again
all brand new 2011 recordings.
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No Choice For A Beggar -
Colin Reece
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No Choice For A Beggar
is
Colin's first album of totally original material for nearly
sixteen years and to a large 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.
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Beggar
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Going Back -
Colin Reece
For some time now Colin has been inundated with requests to record
a CD of some of the cover
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.
A full track listing can be found on the recording page.
Orders can be made be emailing Colin via this site.
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That Old Chestnut
Colin Reece
Primarily recorded with the Torquay Christmas hotel market in
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.
The result is That Old Chestnut
a CD containing literally that - some
old chestnuts, ie some of Colin's favourite old
Christmas songs.
A full track listing can be found on the
recording page.
Orders can be made be emailing Colin via this site.
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50 Channels - Live
The Bully Wee Band
New and exciting news for all Bully Wee band fans.
During the 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 itunes or Amazon and obtained by emailing
Slaughterhouse Productions
The album is called '50 Channels - live' and features eight brand new,
never before recorded Bully Wee Band songs and tunes, along with seven
Bully Wee Band favourites from their extensive 36 year repertoire.
All given the band's unique live treatment.
Available for purchase from the
Bully Wee Band Shop.
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Dates from
17th May 2021
These are the dates open to the
public. Other dates in the month may well be taken by private
functions.
The lifting of Covid
restrictions has enabled the regular dates at the Hole In The Wall every
Thursday evening to be reinstated.
Until mid-June 2021 these evenings will be restricted to seating with table
service only.
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From 17th May2021 |
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Every Thursday
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The Hole in
the Wall, Torquay
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9.15pm
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17th July |
The Burlington Hotel, Torquay
(with Drew Millin) |
8.30pm |
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30th July
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TQ2, Torquay
(with Drew Millin)
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8.30pm
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4th September
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Newton Abbot Food Faiyre
(with Drew Millin)
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12 Noon
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These are the dates open to the
public. Other dates in the month may well be taken by private hotel
functions.
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