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:: Release Info:
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:: Artist......> John Howard
:: Title.......> Barefoot with Angels
:: Label.......> Hanky Panky Records
:: Genre.......> Pop
:: Rip.Date....> 04.03.2008
:: Street.Date.> 00.00.0000
:: Source......> CDDA
:: Quality.....> VBR / avg. 145kbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
:: Encoder.....> LAME 3.97/V2/VBRNEW
:: URL.........> http://www.myspace.com/kidinabigworld
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:: Track Listing:
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:: 01. The Exquisities 03:49
:: 02. The Dance 04:34
:: 03. Who's Listening 02:03
:: 04. Unrequited 02:20
:: 05. (if You'll L Be My) Cart Port 05:16
:: 06. Magdalena Merrywidow 08:13
:: 07. In the Bliss of A Stolen Moment 04:18
:: 08. Take the Weight 02:13
:: 09. Last Stand 03:11
:: 10. The Promise 03:02
:: 11. Barefoot with Angels 04:08
:: 12. That's All 03:32
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:: Total Playtime: 46:39 min
:: Total Size: 50,2 MB
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:: Release Notes:
::
:: In the mid-'70s, I was signed to CBS Records and recorded
:: three albums, (now referred to rather epically as 'The Kid
:: Trilogy'). My debut set, Kid In A Big World, first released
:: in 1975, was produced by Tony Meehan at Abbey Road and by
:: Paul Phillips at Apple Studios.
:: It was reissued by RPM Records at the end of 2003 after being
:: unavailable, apart from the occasional rare vinyl shop, for
:: many years. The reissue got a five-star review in Uncut
:: Magazine, and they made the album one of their Top 20 Best
:: Reissues Of 2004. In April that year, I returned to the stage
:: after a 25 year lay-off, with a show at the Jermyn Street
:: Theatre, London. It got a five-star review in The Guardian.
:: This led to RPM releasing my other '70s material, the albums
:: Technicolour Biography and Can You Hear Me OK?, which had
:: never been released before. The latter featured the two
:: singles I recorded with Trevor Horn producing in '78/'79.
::
:: Through the early part of the '80s I continued to record with
:: people like Chris Rainbow, Nicky Graham and Steve Levine,
:: releasing my last single, aptly titled Nothing More To Say
:: But Goodbye, in 1984. I then moved into A & R, where I worked
:: with artists like Elkie Brooks, Maria Friedman, Hazell Dean,
:: Madness and the legendary and rather wonderful Crickets and
:: apart from making the occasional (unreleased) recording with
:: friends, as far as I was concerned my own career as a
:: recording artist was well and truly over.
::
:: I retired from the music business in 2000, fully expecting to
:: get a part-time job in a second-hand bookshop or something,
:: relaxing into a life in the country. However, due to the
:: revived interest in my music through the RPM reissues I have,
:: much to my surprise and joy, started writing, recording and
:: gigging again. I feel 19 years old again, only realising the
:: truth whenever I look in the mirror.
::
:: So, a creative period is upon me once more. My first new
:: album for many years, The Dangerous Hours, cowritten with
:: poet/lyricist Rob Cochrane, came out in July '05 on Bad
:: Pressings, and received four-star reviews in The Guardian and
:: Uncut.
::
:: As I Was Saying, which was the first new album of my words
:: and music for over thirty years, was released on Cherry Red
:: Records in November '05, the reviewer in Plan B magazine
:: naming it his Album of 2005. It even prompted Chris Roberts
:: to write in his review of the album in Uncut, "He's a British
:: Jimmy Webb", which, as a huge fan of Jimmy's since I was a
:: teenager, made my year!
::
:: In May 2006, Same Bed, Different Dreams was issued in France
:: on Euro-visions Records. It received really encouraging
:: write-ups in the French music press, including one in the
:: influential Les Inrocks mag where Celine Remy wrote: "A
:: genuine hidden treasure of eccentric pop. Of a time when
:: Elton John preferred writing to shopping." When released
:: internationally by Cargo in January 2007, Same Bed received
:: four star reviews from Snaz Music and Musicomh.
::
:: In June 2007, my live album In The Room Upstairs, recorded at
:: Manchester┤s Briton┤s Protection in May and June 2006 and
:: featuring many new songs written specially for the occasion,
:: was released as an iTunes Exclusive.
::
:: In January 2008, my eighth album, Barefoot With Angels was
:: released by Spanish label Hanky Panky Records via Cargo
:: Records Distribution. I am beginning a new phase in life,
:: having moved to live in Spain towards the end of 2007. My
:: first gig in 2008 will be in Valencia, details to follow
:: soon.
::
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