Pipe Dreams (Murray Head album)

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Pipe Dreams
Murray Head - Pipe Dreams Coverart.png
Studio album by
Released1995
Genre Rock
Label Voiceprint Records
Producer Murray Head, Ian Maidman
Murray Head chronology
When You're in Love
(1995)
Pipe Dreams
(1995)
Innocence
(2000)
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Pipe Dreams is the tenth studio album by Murray Head. It was released in 1995.

Contents

Track listing

All songs composed by Murray Head unless noted.

  1. "Who Loves You" (Bob Gaudio, Judy Parker) – 4:20
  2. "Only a Pipe Dream" (Murray Head, Ian Maidman) – 6:09
  3. "Prison Wall Blues" (Gus Cannon) – 3:54
  4. "Si tu veux être un homme" (Head, Rudyard Kipling, Ian Maidman, André Maurois) – 6:53
  5. "Shadows of the Truth" – 6:06
  6. "Dancing Flamenco Alone" (Head, Maidman) – 5:49
  7. "When They Found Eldorado" (Head, Maidman) – 4:56
  8. "Is That All There Is?" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 3:57
  9. "Over the Hill" – 6:14
  10. "Fair and Tender Ladies" (Traditional) – 6:51
  11. "Hesitation Blues" (Rev. Gary Davis) – 3:15
  12. "India Song" (Carlos d'Alessio, Marguerite Duras) – 4:21
  13. "Sedentary Nomad" – 5:56
  14. "Ca n'était que ça" – 5:16 (Caroline Cochaux, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)

Personnel

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