Hofner Blue Notes

Hofner Blue Notes
Studio album by
Chris Rea
Released28 July 2003
GenreBlues
Length50:29
LabelJazzee Blue
ProducerKiadan Quinn
Chris Rea chronology
Dancing Down the Stony Road
(2002) 		Hofner Blue Notes
(2003) 		The Blue Jukebox
(2004)

Hofner Blue Notes is the nineteenth studio album by British singer-songwriter Chris Rea, released in 2003 by his own record label, Jazzee Blue.[1] The album was part of series of largely instrumental blues and jazz albums released by his label Jazzee Blue and mostly fronted by his band members,[2] of which this album was preceded by Rea's eighteenth studio and instrumental album Blue Street (Five Guitars) in 2003.[3]

The album was part of Hofner Blue Notes, a project about Höfner guitar because Rea's first electric guitar was a 1961 Höfner V3 bought from a second-hand shop while he was working in his father's ice cream factory in early 1970s, and continued with The Return of the Fabulous Hofner Bluenotes in 2008.[4]

Track listing

  1. "Spy" – 5:05
  2. "Expectations" – 3:59
  3. "Hofner Blue Notes" – 2:52
  4. "Paris in Minneapolis" – 5:05
  5. "São Paulo Blue" – 4:58
  6. "What Became" – 4:44
  7. "Detroit" – 3:54
  8. "Goodnight Joe" – 4:15
  9. "Take the Mingus Train" – 4:24
  10. "Alone" – 3:39
  11. "Saudi Blue" – 4:06
  12. "Kestrel Avenue" – 3:28

Personnel

  • Chris Rea – all instruments, paintings
  • Kiadan Quinn – producer
  • Stuart Epps – engineer
  • Stewart Eales – engineer
  • Mainartery – album design
  • John Knowles – management
  • Recorded at Sol Mill Studios (Berkshire, England)
  • Mastered at The Soundmasters (London, UK)

References

  1. ^ "Chris Rea - Hofner Blue Notes". Discogs.com. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  2. ^ Mark Edwards (27 July 2003). "Chris Rea: Blue Street". The Times. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Blue Street (Five Guitars)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
  4. ^ "Middlesbrough superstar Chris Rea speaks exclusively about recovering from illness and his return to touring". Ne4me.dev.visualsoft.co.uk. 5 March 2010. Archived from the original on 5 April 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.


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