Songs from the Novel 'Greatest Hits'

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Songs from the Novel 'Greatest Hits'
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Released16 June 2017
Label One Little Indian
Producer Romeo Stodart
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Resonator
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Songs from the Novel 'Greatest Hits'
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Songs from the Novel 'Greatest Hits' is the 14th studio album by British singer-songwriter, Kathryn Williams and a collaboration with the novelist Laura Barnett based on her second novel Greatest Hits. [1]

Contents

The project was conceived from Barnett's interest in Williams' Hypoxia album centred on Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar' novel and her concept of her own novel having a soundtrack of the protagonist, Cass Wheeler's music. [2] Williams wrote the music to the 16 sets of lyrics in the novel Barnett uses to illustrate the events in Cass' life that bookend each chapter [3] along with producer Romeo Stodart .

The album and book were released simultaneously with The Irish Times suggesting the album ran 'gamut of emotions and musical styles from pastoral playfulness to jagged edged brittleness' [4]

Track listing

  1. "Common Ground"
  2. "Architect"
  3. "Living Free"
  4. "I Wrote You a Love Song"
  5. "Just Us Two"
  6. "Road of Shadows" s
  7. "Don't Step on the Cracks"
  8. "She Wears a Dress"
  9. "Lilies"
  10. "Brightest Star"
  11. "In This Garden"
  12. "Queen of the Snow"
  13. "Home"
  14. "Edge of the World"
  15. "Gethsemane"
  16. "When Morning Comes"

Notes

Personnel

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References

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  2. "Greatest Hits: how a novel by Laura Barnett was brought to life by an accompanying soundtrack | The National" . Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  3. Editor, Richard Brooks, Arts. "Book comes with its own soundtrack" . Retrieved 22 June 2017.{{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  4. "Kathryn Williams: Songs from the Novel 'Greatest Hits' – fruitful collaboration with author Laura Barnett". The Irish Times. Retrieved 22 June 2017.