Shadows in the Air

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Shadows in the Air
Jack Bruce Shadows in the Air.jpg
Studio album by
Released10 July 2001
RecordedNovember 1999 – December 2000
Genre jazz-rock, blues-rock
Label Sanctuary
Producer Jack Bruce, Kip Hanrahan
Jack Bruce chronology
Monkjack
(1995)
Shadows in the Air
(2001)
More Jack than God
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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All About Jazz (favourable) [1]
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Rolling Stone (not rated) [4]

Shadows in the Air is the twelfth studio album by Scottish musician Jack Bruce, released in March 2001. [2] It was the first of two Bruce albums to be co-produced by Kip Hanrahan. It includes his former bandmate Eric Clapton on fresh recordings of two old Cream songs.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Out into the Fields" (Pete Brown, Bruce, Corky Laing, Leslie West) – 5:22
  2. "52nd Street" (Bruce, Kip Hanrahan) – 3:59
  3. "Heart Quake" (Brown, Bruce) – 5:31
  4. "Boston Ball Game 1967" (Brown, Bruce) – 2:01
  5. "This Anger's a Liar" (Bruce, Hanrahan) – 3:21
  6. "Sunshine of Your Love" (Brown, Bruce, Eric Clapton) – 4:31
  7. "Directions Home" (Bruce, Hanrahan) – 4:30
  8. "Milonga" (Bruce, Hanrahan) – 4:53
  9. "Dancing on Air" (Brown, Bruce) – 4:02
  10. "Windowless Rooms" (Bruce, Hanrahan) – 5:08
  11. "Dark Heart" (Bruce, Hanrahan) – 5:59
  12. "Mr. Flesh" (Bruce, Hanrahan, Vernon Reid) – 2:13
  13. "He the Richmond" (Brown, Bruce) – 3:19
  14. "White Room" (Brown, Bruce) – 5:48
  15. "Surge" (Bruce, Hanrahan) – 1:58

Personnel

Musicians
Production

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