Hofner Blue Notes

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Hofner Blue Notes
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Studio album by
Chris Rea
Released28 July 2003
RecordedDecember 2002 – April 2003
Genre Blues
Length50:29
Label Jazzee Blue
Producer Kiadan Quinn
Chris Rea chronology
Dancing Down the Stony Road
(2002)		Hofner Blue Notes
(2003)		 The Blue Jukebox
(2004)

Hofner Blue Notes is the nineteenth studio album by British singer-songwriter Chris Rea, released in July 2003 by his own record label, Jazzee Blue. [1] [2]

Contents

Background

The album was part of series of largely instrumental blues and jazz albums released by his label Jazzee Blue and mostly fronted by his band members, [3] [4] of which this album was preceded by Rea's eighteenth studio and instrumental album Blue Street (Five Guitars) released on the same date in 2003 (peaked as #8 at the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart [5] ). [6]

The album was part of Hofner Blue Notes, a project about Höfner guitar because Rea's first electric guitar was a 1961 Höfner V3 bought from a second-hand shop while he was working in his father's ice cream factory in early 1970s, and continued with The Return of the Fabulous Hofner Bluenotes in 2008. [7]

Track listing

  1. "Spy" – 5:05
  2. "Expectations" – 3:59
  3. "Hofner Blue Notes" – 2:52
  4. "Paris in Minneapolis" – 5:05
  5. "São Paulo Blue" – 4:58
  6. "What Became" – 4:44
  7. "Detroit" – 3:54
  8. "Goodnight Joe" – 4:15
  9. "Take the Mingus Train" – 4:24
  10. "Alone" – 3:39
  11. "Saudi Blue" – 4:06
  12. "Kestrel Avenue" – 3:28

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Hofner Blue Notes
Chart (2003)Peak
position
UK Jazz & Blues Albums (OCC) [8] 20

References

  1. ↑ "Chris Rea - Hofner Blue Notes". Discogs.com. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  2. ↑ "Hofner Blue Notes - Chris Rea | Album | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved 23 December 2025.
  3. ↑ Mark Edwards (27 July 2003). "Chris Rea: Blue Street". The Times . Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  4. ↑ Petridis, Alexis (22 December 2025). "Despite his knack for slick pop, the principled and passionate Chris Rea never took the easy road". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 December 2025.
  5. ↑ "Official Jazz & Blues Albums Chart on 3/8/2003". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 25 December 2025.
  6. ↑ "Blue Street (Five Guitars)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "Middlesbrough superstar Chris Rea speaks exclusively about recovering from illness and his return to touring". Ne4me.dev.visualsoft.co.uk. 5 March 2010. Archived from the original on 5 April 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Official Jazz & Blues Albums Chart Top 30". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 December 2025.


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