Late December

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Late December
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 24, 2007
Genre Rock
Length42:59
Label Cooking Vinyl
Producer Maria McKee, Jim Akin
Maria McKee chronology
Peddlin' Dreams
(2005)
Late December
(2007)
La Vita Nuova
(2020)
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Late December, released on April 24, 2007, is Maria McKee's sixth solo album. The album contains the single "A Good Heart", a song McKee had written over 20 years earlier but had never released. Feargal Sharkey had a U.K. #1 with the song in 1985.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Late December" (Jim Akin, Maria McKee)
  2. "No Other Way To Love You" (Akin, McKee)
  3. "A Good Heart" (McKee)
  4. "Power On, Little Star" (McKee)
  5. "Too Many Heroes" (McKee)
  6. "Destine" (McKee)
  7. "My First Night Without You" (McKee)
  8. "Scene of the Affair" (McKee, Akin)
  9. "Cat in the Wall" (McKee)
  10. "One Eye On The Sky (One On The Grave)" (McKee, Akin)
  11. "Bannow" (McKee)
  12. "Starving Pretty" (McKee)

Personnel

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