Back to Basics (Alan Hull album)

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Back to Basics
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Live album by
Released1994
RecordedJanuary 1994
Genre Folk rock, folk
Length59:58
Label Mooncrest Records
Producer Alan Hull
Alan Hull chronology
Another Little Adventure
(1988)
Back to Basics
(1994)
Statues & Liberties
(1996)
Back to Basics
Review scores
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Back to Basics is a 1994 live album recording by Alan Hull. Backed by Kenny Craddock, the album was recorded live at the Mean Fiddler and Blackheath Halls in London in January 1994. [1]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Alan Hull; except where noted.

  1. "United States of Mind"
  2. "Poor Old Ireland"
  3. "All Fall Down"
  4. "Lady Eleanor"
  5. "Winter Song"
  6. "Walk in the Sea"
  7. "Mother Russia" (Kenny Craddock)
  8. "This Heart of Mine" (Kevin Phillipson)
  9. "Mr. Inbetween"
  10. "January Song"
  11. "Breakfast"
  12. "Day of the Jackal"
  13. "O No Not Again"
  14. "Run for Home"
  15. "Fog on the Tyne"

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Eder, Bruce. Alan Hull – Back to Basics: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 17 November 2021.