Backbones (album)

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Backbones
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Live album by
Released25 October 2004
Genre Hard rock, rock
Label Talking Elephant
Wishbone Ash chronology
Almighty Blues: London and Beyond
(2003)
Backbones
(2004)
Lost Pearls
(2004)
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Backbones is a 2004 live compilation album released by Wishbone Ash. The album's third disc contains live and acoustic versions of previously unreleased material. [2]

Contents

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Mountainside"
  2. "Top of the World"
  3. "Wait Out the Storm"
  4. "No Joke"
  5. "On Your Own"
  6. "Wings of Desire"
  7. "Errors of My Way"
  8. "Master of Disguise"
  9. "Everybody Needs a Friend"
  10. "Living Proof"
  11. "Almighty Blues"
  12. "Faith Hope and Love"
  13. "Ancient Remedy"
  14. "Come Rain Come Shine"

Disc two

  1. "Lifeline"
  2. "Living Proof"
  3. "Insomnia"
  4. "You See Red"
  5. "Throw Down the Sword"
  6. "Time Was"
  7. "Real Guitars Have Wings"
  8. "Sometime World"
  9. "Blowin’ Free"
  10. "Hard on You"
  11. "Is Justice Done"
  12. "Sheriff of Sherwood"

Disc three

  1. "Strange Affair"
  2. "The King Will Come"
  3. "Hard Times"
  4. "Interview with Andy Powell

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References

  1. Fielder, Hugh (February 2005). "Wishbones Ash 'Backbones'". Classic Rock. Vol. 76. London, UK: Future Publishing Ltd. p. 101.
  2. "Backbones". Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash. 2008. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 8 November 2008.