Songs from the Gutter

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Songs from the Gutter
Thea Gilmore-Songs from the Gutter.jpg
Studio album by Thea Gilmore
Released 2002
Genre Rock, folk
Length80:31
Label Shameless/Flying Sparks/Hot
Producer Nigel Stonier
Thea Gilmore chronology
Rules For Jokers
(2001) Rules For Jokers2001		 Songs From The Gutter
(2002)		 Avalanche
(2003) Avalanche2003

Songs from the Gutter is the fourth album by English singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore. It was released in 2002 on her own Shameless label in association with Flying Sparks and Hot Records. [1] The album included a bonus disc of material previously only available over the internet.

Thea Gilmore British singer-songwriter

Thea Eve Gilmore is an English singer-songwriter. She began her career working in a recording studio, where she was discovered by her now long-time collaborator, producer and sometime co-songwriter Nigel Stonier, whom she married in October 2005.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Thea Gilmore, except where noted.

  1. "Down To Nowhere" – 3:53
  2. "When Did You Get So Safe?" – 3:24
  3. "Tear It All Down" (The Gilmore/Nigel Stonier) – 4:06
  4. "The Dirt Is Your Lover Now" – 4:30
  5. "I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine" (Bob Dylan) – 4:43
  6. "Lip Reading" – 3:34
  7. "Heart String Blues" – 4:22
  8. "Mud On My Shoes" – 3:29
  9. "Water To Sky" – 2:41
  10. "And We'll Dance" – 4:01
Bonus disc
  1. "Cover Me" (Bruce Springsteen) – 3:37
  2. "I'm Not Down" (Strummer/Jones/Simonon/Headon) – 2:59
  3. "Hydrogen" (1996) – 3:32
  4. "Beelzebub" (1996) – 4:07
  5. "Maybe" (1996) – 3:56
  6. "Red Farm" (1997) – 3:56
  7. "Brittle Dreams" (1996) – 3:47
  8. "December In New York" (1997) – 3:38
  9. "Gun Cotton" (1999) – 4:14
  10. "Don't Set Foot Over The Railway Track" (2000) – 2:27
  11. "Lavender Cowgirl" (2000) – 2:57
  12. "You Tell Me" (2001) – 3:37
  13. "Straight Lines" (2001) – 5:33

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic's Rick Anderson gave the album four stars, calling it "essential". [2] Billboard called her vision on the album "dark, cold, yet rapturous". [3]

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Personnel

Nigel Stonier is a UK-based rock, roots and pop producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

Robbie McIntosh British musician

Robbie McIntosh is an English guitarist. McIntosh is well known as a session guitarist and member of The Pretenders from 1982 until 1987. In 1988 he began doing session guitar work for Paul McCartney joining his band full-time until early 1994. He continues to do session work and has performed both as a sideman with John Mayer and with his own band, The Robbie McIntosh Band.

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References

  1. ↑ Sexton, Paul (2002) "The EQ Review", Billboard , 30 November 2002, p. EQ-3. Retrieved 17 January 2018 via Google Books
  2. 1 2 Anderson, Rick "Songs from the Gutter Review", Allmusic. Retrieved 17 January 2018
  3. ↑ "A Thea Thing", Billboard , 12 February 2005. Retrieved 17 January 2018
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