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Eddi Reader / The Blanco y Negro Years / five-CD box set

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The three albums Eddi Reader recorded for Geoff Travis’ Blanco y Negro label in the late nineties, have been collected with extensive bonus tracks for a new five-CD box set.

The Blanco y Negro Years features the Scottish singer-songwriter’s second solo album Eddi Reader from 1994, follow-up Candyfloss And Medicine (1996) and Angels & Electricity from 1998. The first two albums come with companion bonus discs featuring many non-album singles b-sides, including covers of songs by Paul Buchanan (of The Blue Nile), Ray Davies, Ivor Cutler and the Trash Can Sinatras, as a well as a collaboration with Jools Holland and his orchestra. Angels & Electricity is appended with three bonus tracks.

This is packaged as a clamshell box and comes complete with a booklet with all the credits and lyrics as well as some words by Colin Irwin.

The Blanco y Negro Years is released on 15 June 2015.



Track listing

DISC ONE

EDDI READER

  • 1. The Right Place
  • 2. Patience Of Angels
  • 3. Dear John
  • 4. Scarecrow
  • 5. East Of Us
  • 6. Joke (I’m Laughing)
  • 7. The Exception
  • 8. Red Face Big Sky
  • 9. Howling In Ojai
  • 10. When I Watch
  • You Sleeping
  • 11. Wonderful Lie
  • 12. Siren

DISC TWO

BONUS TRACKS

  • 1. Shirt And Comb
  • 2. Saturday Night
  • 3. Wonderboy
  • 4. Three Crosses
  • 5. Go And Sit Upon The Grass
  • 6. Battersea Moon
  • 7. When I Watch You Sleeping [demo version]
  • 8. What You Do With What You’ve Got
  • 9. That’s Fair
  • 10. Nobody Lives Without Love

DISC THREE

CANDYFLOSS AND MEDICINE

  • 1. Glasgow Star
  • 2. Town Without Pity
  • 3. Medicine
  • 4. Rebel Angel
  • 5. Semi-Precious
  • 6. Lazy Heart
  • 7. I Loved A Lad
  • 8. Butterfly Jar
  • 9. Candyfloss
  • 10. Darkhouse

DISC FOUR

BONUS TRACKS

  • 1. Leave The Light On
  • 2. Shall I Be Mother
  • 3. If You’ve Got A Minute, Baby
  • 4. Sex Lives
  • 5. Earlies
  • 6. Sugar On The Pill
  • 7. Nameless
  • 8. John Anderson My Joe
  • 9. Green Grow The Rashes
  • 10. Who Knows Where The Time Goes
  • 11. Waiting Game [Jools Holland & Eddi Reader & The Rhythm & Blues Orchestra]

DISC FIVE

ANGELS & ELECTRICITY

  • 1. Kiteflyer’s Hill
  • 2. Prayer Wheel
  • 3. Postcard
  • 4. Wings On My Heels
  • 5. On A Whim
  • 6. Hummingbird
  • 7. Barcelona Window
  • 8. Bell, Book And Candle
  • 9. California
  • 10. Follow My Tears
  • 11. Psychic Reader
  • 12. Please Don’t Ask Me To Dance
  • 13. Clear

BONUS TRACKS

  • 14. Homesick Son
  • 15. St. Christopher
  • 16. Buckets Of Rain


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