Walking Back Home

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Walking Back Home
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Studio album by
Deacon Blue
Released11 October 1999
Genre Pop, rock
Label Sony Music Entertainment
Producer Deacon Blue, Jon Kelly, Steve Osborne, Warne Livesey
Deacon Blue chronology
Riches & More
(1997)		Walking Back Home
(1999)		 Homesick
(2001)
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Walking Back Home is an album by Scottish pop rock band Deacon Blue released in 1999. It was their first album since reforming that year after disbanding in 1994. A part studio/part compilation album, it contains nine of their earlier songs coupled with eight brand-new or previously unreleased songs.

Scotland Country in Europe, part of the United Kingdom

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Sharing a border with England to the southeast, Scotland is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, by the North Sea to the northeast and by the Irish Sea to the south. In addition to the mainland, situated on the northern third of the island of Great Britain, Scotland has over 790 islands, including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides.

Pop rock is rock music with a greater emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude. Originating in the 1950s as an alternative to rock and roll, early pop rock was influenced by the beat, arrangements, and style of rock and roll. It may be viewed as a distinct genre field, rather than music that overlaps with pop and rock. The detractors of pop rock often deride it as a slick, commercial product, less authentic than rock music.

Deacon Blue Scottish band

Deacon Blue are a Scottish pop rock band formed in Glasgow during 1985. The line-up of the band consists of vocalists Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh, keyboard player James Prime and drummer Dougie Vipond. The band released their debut album, Raintown, on 1 May 1987 in the United Kingdom and in the United States in February 1988. Their second album, When the World Knows Your Name (1989), topped the UK Albums Chart for two weeks, and included "Real Gone Kid" which became their first top ten single in the UK Singles Chart.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Ricky Ross, except where noted:

Ricky Ross (musician) singer

Richard Alexander "Ricky" Ross is a Scottish singer-songwriter and broadcaster. He is the lead singer of the rock band Deacon Blue.

  1. "Love Hurts" (Bryant, Acuff-Rose) — 4:24
  2. "Jesus Do Your Hands Still Feel the Rain" — 5:14
  3. "The Very Thing" — 3:35
  4. "The Day that Jackie Jumped the Jail" — 3:55
  5. "Love and Regret" — 5:02
  6. "Christmas and Glasgow" — 5:12
    • from the Oscar Marzaroli tribute album The Tree and the Bird and the Fish and the Bell

    Oscar Marzaroli was an Italian-born Scottish photographer of post-World War II urban Scotland. He was born in Castiglione Vara in northwest Italy and came to Scotland with his family at the age of two.

  7. "The Wildness" (Ross, Prime) — 5:48
  8. "When You Are Young" — 3:49
  9. "Love's Great Fears" — 2:44
  10. "Chocolate Girl" — 3:17
  11. "Plastic Shoes" — 3:40
  12. "A Brighter Star than You Will Shine" (Ross, Prime) — 4:38
  13. "Beautiful Stranger" (Ross, Prime) — 3:55
  14. "All I Want" — 4:44
  15. "When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring) [Edit]" — 4:21
  16. "Walking Back Home" — 5:01
  17. "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" (Bacharach, David) — 2:46

Jon Kelly is a British audio engineer and record producer, who began his career as an engineer at Air London Studios. He has produced albums and singles for Chris Rea, The Damned, Kate Bush, Pele, The Beautiful South, Prefab Sprout, Deacon Blue, Heather Nova, Rosalie Deighton, The Levellers, Fish, Lynsey de Paul, Mickey Joe Harte, Nolwenn Leroy and Richard Ashcroft. He also mixed several tracks on Tori Amos’s debut album, Little Earthquakes.

Stephen John "Steve" Osborne is a British record producer, living in Bath, England. He has worked with a wide variety of musicians, including A-ha, New Order, Elbow, U2, Happy Mondays, Placebo, Gregory Porter, Doves, KT Tunstall, Vanessa Carlton, Simple Minds, etc.

Personnel

Deacon Blue

Lorraine McIntosh Scottish singer and actress

Lorraine McIntosh is a Scottish singer best known as a vocalist with Scottish band Deacon Blue. She has also achieved success as an actress, starring in River City and appearing in Taggart among her most notable roles in television.

James Prime is best known as the keyboard player for Deacon Blue. He also lectures at the University of the West of Scotland. Known as a Hammond/piano player, his talents have been sought after by John Martyn, Johnny Hallyday, Phil Cunningham, Eddi Reader and Little Richard..

Ewen Vernal Scottish musician

Ewen Vernal is a Scottish musician.

Other personnel

Song Commentary

Quotes from Ricky Ross included in liner notes:

Jesus Do Your Hands Still Feel the Rain

"'Jesus Do Your Hands Still Feel the Rain' was written for a film commission in 94 just as the band was about to fold. We did have a go at recording it but, in hindsight, didn't make the best job of it. The song was dropped from the film and despite visiting it occasionally in the years between I've never found a good arrangement. This time Ewen was on holiday and it seems to have made all the difference... Listen carefully and you hear him putting 10p in the phone as he drops in a bass part (turn it up very loud and you'll hear the organ at Blackpool Tower)."

Christmas and Glasgow

"'Christmas and Glasgow' was recorded at CaVa — Robin Rankine must have been involved — and I'm sure Rachel Smillie played that whistle. It was only available before on the Oscar Marzaroli tribute record — you can see his work on this sleeve and a few others from our early days."

When You Are Young

"'When You Are Young' was recorded as part of Fellow Hoodlums and played a good deal live at that time. Most of this is the original live take with Gavin Wright's fiddle added before we mixed."

Beautiful Stranger

"'Beautiful Stranger' was recorded in a mill in Cookham and finished in Eden . . . that's in London . . . around 1993. It was only previously available to vinyl junkies . . . and predates any Madonna song of the same name and mentions the island of Gigha which no Madonna song I know ever did."

All I Want

"'All I Want' started life as a possible track for the last studio album [ Whatever You Say, Say Nothing ] then got left behind. For technophobes this is from a rough mix, an old DAT and no one remembers when we recorded it or who pressed the red button — but it's as good as anything else here"

Walking Back Home

"'Walking Back Home' was recorded at CaVa . . . that's in Glasgow with Ewen, Doug and myself and later Graeme and Lorraine overdubbing. Where was Jim? . . . I want to dedicate this to two of the people mentioned on the track: Warbeck and Linda . . . we all sang and we'll keep on singing."

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References

  1. ↑ Walking Back Home at AllMusic
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