Secret Paths (album)

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Secret Paths
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 3, 2008 (2008-03-03)
Recorded2008 (2008)
Genre Folk rock
Label Witchwood Media
Producer Chris Tsangarides
Dave Cousins chronology
The Boy in the Sailor Suit
(2007)
Secret Paths
(2008)
Duochrome
(2008)
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Secret Paths is a studio album by Dave Cousins.

Track listing

All songs written by Dave Cousins except where noted.

Contents

  1. "Song of a Sad Little Girl"
  2. "Plainsong"
  3. "The Shepherd's Song"
  4. "I Turned My face into the Wind"
  5. "Ringing Down the Years"
  6. "Josephine (For Better or for Worse)"
  7. "Canada"
  8. "How I Need You Now"
  9. "I'll Show You Where to Sleep"
  10. "Beat the Retreat"
  11. "Falling in Love Again" (Frederick Hollander, Sammy Lerner)

Personnel

Recording

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
March 3, 2008Witchwood Media CD WMCD 2042

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