 | The Varaflames - Throwing Shapes
NEONCD001
(2000) 14 tracks: If These Shoes Could talk; Branch; Learning the Game; Donegal Diamond; Time to Let it Go; Blues Around Me Now; When I Go; Somebody Counts on Me; Restless; No One Answered; Lonely Boy Tonight; Spin; Secret Love; Supposed to Be.
This album was released almost exactly thirty years after Rab Noakes' first recording Do You See the Lights?
It contains a few new songs, a few unreleased old songs and a few revisits to songs from across the 30 year period.
Rab Noakes (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals), Rod Clements (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, dobro, mandolin, bass guitar), Fraser Speirs (harmonicas, percussion), Pick Withers (drums, percussion), Gill Bowman, Karine Polwart and Chris Thow (all backing vocals), Hilary Brooks (hammond organ, keyboards), Colin McFarlane (electric guitar, dobro, slide guitar, backing vocals), Ewen Vernal (double bass).
"Faultless production and funky backing band." (The Scotsman)
"An original British spin on country that works rather brilliantly" (Country Music International)
"Rab could be the closest Scotland has to musical royalty" (Go Magazine)
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