| Rain or Shine | ||||
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| Released | December 2013 | |||
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| Length | 35:26 | |||
| Label | Carrack-UK | |||
| Producer | Paul Carrack, Peter Van Hooke | |||
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Rain or Shine is the fifteenth solo studio album by the English singer-songwriter Paul Carrack. It was originally released in 2013 on Carrack's own Carrack-UK label, and was co-produced by Carrack and long-time associate Peter Van Hooke, who is Carrack's former Mike + The Mechanics bandmate.
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine writes that "Rain or Shine captures Paul Carrack living comfortably inside his signature sound: a blue-eyed soul that turns happier with each passing year." [1]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Stepping Stone" | Paul Carrack | 4:04 |
| 2. | "That's All That Matters To Me" | Carrack | 3:37 |
| 3. | "One In A Million" | Carrack | 3:38 |
| 4. | "You Don't Know Me" | Cindy Walker, Eddy Arnold | 3:14 |
| 5. | "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right" | Homer Banks, Carl Hampton, Raymond Jackson | 3:59 |
| 6. | "Time Waits For No One" | Carrack | 4:02 |
| 7. | "Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)" | Ray Charles, Mitch Mitchell | 3:07 |
| 8. | "I'm Losing You" | Pierre Havet, Jean Gaston Renard, Carl Sigman | 2:54 |
| 9. | "Life's Too Short" | Carrack | 3:19 |
| 10. | "Come Rain Or Come Shine" | Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer | 3:31 |
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [2]
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