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A Million Blues

A MILLION BLUES

A Million Blues are:

GG: Piano, Keyboards, Computer & keyboard programming
SC: Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitars

Guest musicians:
Trudy Kerr: Backing Vocals on 2, 5, 6
Simon Greenaway: Backing Voclas on 1, 3
Tracy Colvin: Violins on 3
Robert McChesney: Electric Guitar on 11

Tracklist:
1. Don't Think It Over
2. Victoria
3. Big Bright Night
4. I Don't Wanna Go Home
5. The Sound Of Happiness
6. This Fragile Heart
7. Love The Kiss
8. Time Of My Life
9. Best Kept Secret
10. Summer Rain
11. What I Wouldn't Give

This is a musically different album then what we're used to hear from the Toff Records label, the home of Pendragon and Peter Gee.

Of course this album has traces of Pendragon, but most of all to bands such as Aztec Camera, Deacon Blue and Prefab Sprout.

Some songs could even be mistaken for being recordings with some of these bands. I love all of the mentioned bands, and A Million Blues are very close to them.

Their songs may not be as good as the genius compositions of Prefab Sprout's Paddy McAloon, but sometimes they are equal to both Aztec Camera and Deacon Blue.

Recommended to all Pendragon and Pop fans!
A forgotten jewel on Toff Records!
TOFF RECORDS GGSC 1CD

-Reviewed by Greger Rönnqvist-