Footprints in the Desert

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Footprints in the Desert
Footprints In The Desert Album.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 2002 [1]
Recorded1990–1996
Genre Alternative rock
Post-punk
Length50:41
Label Track
Producer James Cadsky
Hugh Cornwell chronology
Hi Fi
(2000)
Footprints in the Desert
(2002)
In the Dock
(2003)

Footprints in the Desert is the fifth studio album by Hugh Cornwell, released in April 2002 by Track Record. This album, Cornwell's second "lost album", [2] compiles rare and unreleased tracks [3] from the mid-1990s that were not part of a record deal. It was recorded in Bath with James Cadsky, who engineered the Wired album.

Contents

The same year, Track Records also reissued Cornwell's 1999 album, Mayday , on CD.

In 2006, Cornwell told online music magazine Penny Black Music that the album "was a set of songs that I had recorded in the mid 90's which had never got released because I was out of a publishing deal and out of a record contract. On demand from the fan base we decided to put that out." [4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Hugh Cornwell, except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."If You Wanted To" 4:04
2."Everybody" 3:02
3."I Can't Handle It" 3:51
4."Fresh Air" 3:44
5."One Fine Thing" 4:01
6."Lady in Mind" 4:21
7."So Sexual" 3:43
8."Touch Touch" 3:39
9."Venus in Furs" Lou Reed 5:07
10."For What It's Worth" Stephen Stills 3:00
11."Keep It Under Your Hat" 3:18
12."Coming of Age" 4:00
13."Sex Bomb" 3:38
14."2000 Lights" 1:13

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic. [5]

Musicians
Technical

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