Evening Blue

Chris Wood

SKU: HM3019

Barcode: 0602547772886

110.00 £110.00
  • Genre: Rock And Pop
  • Label: Caroline
  • Released Date: 3rd February 2017
  • Buying Format:
    1LP Includes CD

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“Over four years in development, Evening Blue is the first book-set to chronicle and celebrate Chris Wood’s life in music from co-founding Traffic via his many collaborations with the likes of John Martyn, The Wailers’ Tyrone Downie, Free and many others to his own solo work.

The first edition, limited to 1,000 individually numbered copies, will be issued this summer via HiddenMasters new worldwide distribution deal with Caroline International on what would have been Chris’s birthday – June 24th
Evening Blue has been curated in close collaboration with Steph Wood who administers her brother’s estate.

Included are:
A first pressing of Chris’s never-released solo LP on 180gsm vinyl. The ¼” reels were compiled and sequenced by Chris with engineer Terry Barham at Island’s Fall Out Shelter studio in Hammersmith on Sunday, October 1st 1978. Long thought lost, the masters were discovered by chance in a barn in the West of England during the spring of 2013. While some titles are known, none of the selections have previously been heard.

It will be housed in a 200+ page hardback book which includes over 420 images, the majority of which have not been seen before. The text has been abridged and edited from Dan Ropek’s biography of Chris and, together with Ropek’s own interviews with the late Jim Capaldi and Paul Medcalf as well as many of Chris’s friends and musical colleagues throughout his life, Evening Blue includes exclusive interviews with: Steph Wood and Anna Capaldi-Gilbey; studio engineers Dick Cuthell, Terry Barham and Brian Humphries; musicians Mike Kellie, Steve Winwood, Poli Palmer and Gordon Jackson as well as Muscle Shoals Swampers Charles Rose and David Hood; photographers Brian Cooke, Richard Keith Wolff, Dina Regine, Barrie Wentzell, David Miller, Dan Cuny and Gered Mankowitz.

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Track Listings

CD1 replicates the vinyl and includes 5 additional tracks.

Vinyl
A1. Song For Pete (2.56)
2. See No Man Girl (5.28)
3. Letter One (2.09)
4. Barbed Wire (3.56)
5. Don’t It (6.03)

Vinyl B
6. Jam In Butter (4.34)
7. Moon Child Vulcan (4.19)
8. Tone Blind Rhythm Deaf (3.29)
9. Birth In A Day (8.05)-------
10. No. 4 B Side (1.56)
11. Barbed Wire – take #3 Alt-R mix (3.59)
12. Birth In A Day – take #3 CW mix (5.13)
13. Song For Pete – studio rehearsal take #2 (4.23)
14. See No Man Floral Dance (7.25)

ALL tracks on Vinyl + CD1 are previously unreleased.

CD2
1. Piano #1 – Chris Wood (1.42)
2. Love – Traffic (3.15)
3. Outside In – John Martyn (8.22)
4. Come Here Sweet Man – Martha Velez (5.11)
5. Flutered – Chris Wood (2.14)
6. Early In The Morning (live at the Royal Albert Hall) – Airforce (11.33)
7. Song For Freedom – Gordon Jackson (4.50)
8. Automatic Reggae – Tyrone Downie (3.26)
9. Sullen Moon (Sinewave take #1) – Chris Wood (3.06)
10. Zagapam (take #2) – Rebop Kwaku Baah (3.53)
11. Jarn 1 (take #3) – Mason, Capaldi, Wood and Frog (6.32)
12. There In The Greenbriar (take #2) – Sky (4.12)
13. Diggin’ On You (home demo) –Dr John, Jeanette Jacobs and Chris Wood (3.01)
14. Just For You – Dave Mason (2.16)
15. The Fame Groove – Chris Wood (3.52)
16. Lamb – Chris Wood and Stuart Carr (1.12)
17. No Time To Live – Traffic (5.20)

CD3
1. Piano #2 – Chris Wood (2.12)
2. On A Theme Of… Mason, Capaldi, Wood and Frog (6.44)
3. Steph’s Tune – Tyrone Downie (5.05)
4. 40,000 Headmen – Traffic (3.15)
5. So Much In Love With You – John Martyn (2.49)
6. Cinnamon Girl (first rehearsal/take #3) – Spiteri and Chris Wood (2.29)
7. Tragic Magic – Traffic (6.39)
8. Polo No. 1 (sketch) – Chris Wood (1.36)
9. Game Called Life – Bobby Whitlock (4.15)
10. Snakes And Ladders – Gordon Jackson (5.54)
11. Out Of Tune With The Universe (home demo) – Jeanette Jacobs, Dr John and Chris Wood (2.51)
12. Meteorite – Remi Kabaka (4.12)
13. Ley It Up – Chris Wood and Vinden Wylde (2.42)
14. Sold On Down The Line – Crawler (3.50)
15. Waiting On You (live at the BBC) – Mason, Capaldi, Wood and Frog (3.36)
16. For RFK, JFK, MLK – Shawn Phillips (5.50)
17. Sullen Moon (demo) – Chris Wood and Tyrone Downie (5.24)
18. John Barleycorn – Traffic (6.27)
19. Zola – Chris Wood (1.28)

CD4
1. Piano #3 – Chris Wood (3.45)
2. What To Look For… with Maps and Chris Wood (7.01)
3. Vulcan (the Aurora collaboration) – Chris Wood and Spiteri (4.34)
4. Coloured Rain – Traffic (2.45)5. Sing To Me Woman – Gordon Jackson (5.25)
6. Dealer – Traffic (3.12)
7. Barbed Wire (Take #2 Alt-W mix) – Chris Wood (4.25)
8. Mourning Sad Morning – Free (5.05)
9. Evening Blue – Traffic (5.18)
10. Feelin’ Alright? (live at the BBC) – Mason, Capaldi, Wood and Frog (3.44)
11. All Black Festival – Remi Kabaka (3.24)
12. Three Hours – Nick Drake (5.10)
13. Steph’s Dub – Tyrone Downie (3.49)
14. Spring Too – Chris Wood and Stuart Carr (1.52)
15. Rainmaker – Traffic (7.48)
16. Seagull – Jim Capaldi (4.20)
17. Sylvanæ – Chris Wood (0.37)

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