Never Let Go (album)

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Never Let Go (live)
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Released30 July 1993
Recorded5 September 1992
Venue Enschede, Netherlands
Genre Progressive rock
Label Camel Productions
Producer Andy Latimer
Camel chronology
On the Road 1972
(1992)
Never Let Go (live)
(1993)
On the Road 1982
(1994)
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Never Let Go is a live album by the British progressive rock band Camel, released in 1993. It was recorded in Enschede, the Netherlands, 5 September 1992. [2]

Contents

Track listing

Disc one
  1. "Never Let Go" (Latimer) – 7:22
  2. "Earthrise" (Bardens, Latimer) – 8:02
  3. "Rhayader" (Bardens, Latimer) – 2:23
  4. "Rhayader Goes to Town" (Bardens, Latimer) – 5:14
  5. "Spirit of the Water" (Bardens) – 3:03
  6. "Unevensong" (Bardens, Latimer, Ward) – 5:44
  7. "Echoes" (Bardens, Latimer, Ward) – 7:48
  8. "Ice" (Latimer) – 10:21
  9. "City Life" (Hoover, Latimer) – 5:10
  10. "Drafted" (Hoover, Latimer) – 4:12
Disc two
  1. "Dust Bowl" (Latimer) – 1:58
  2. "Go West" (Latimer) – 3:47
  3. "Dusted Out" (Latimer) – 1:36
  4. "Mother Road" (Hoover, Latimer) – 3:44
  5. "Needles" (Latimer) – 3:31
  6. "Rose of Sharon" (Hoover, Latimer) – 5:32
  7. "Milk 'n' Honey" (Latimer) – 3:28
  8. "End of the Line" (Hoover, Latimer) – 7:27
  9. "Storm Clouds" (Hoover, Latimer) – 3:16
  10. "Cotton Camp" (Latimer) – 2:28
  11. "Broken Banks" (Latimer) – 0:45
  12. "Sheet Rain" (Latimer) – 2:20
  13. "Whispers" (Latimer) – 1:06
  14. "Little Rivers and Little Rose" (Latimer) – 2:10
  15. "Hopeless Anger" (Latimer) – 4:54
  16. "Whispers in the Rain" (Latimer) – 3:56
  17. "Sasquatch" (Latimer) – 4:58
  18. "Lady Fantasy" (Camel) – 15:28

Personnel

Camel

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