Life Is Almost Wonderful - Kevin Coyne & Brendan Croker - Music - MIG MUSIC - 0885513023728 - September 25, 2020
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Kevin Coyne & Brendan Croker
Life Is Almost Wonderful

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A sublime duo for a high-end blues!

The CD "Life Is Almost Wonderful" was only sold at concerts by the duo they played together back in 2002 in Belgium and Netherlands. If they had set out to be invisible Coyne and Croker couldn't have planned it much better. But they were two artists not bothered about record company deals, distribution and other practical matters. Never mind, the main thing is this marvellous acoustic album.

Although "recorded by post" (Croker sent the basic guitar tracks and Kevin improvised the lyrics on top), the album is an amazing symbiosis, as if the two were on exactly the same wavelength. There are too many great titles to detail here. "Life Is Almost Wonderful" is a masterpiece where Coyne, with Croker's acoustic backing (some lavish guitar-harp included), conjures up wartime memories, the '50s of his childhood, catholic schools and other peculiar subjects such as the multicoloured eyes of parrots and the story of an English clerk trying to dig through his garden to Australia.

The album is completed by a bonus DVD with insights from their 2002 concerts in Leffinge, Belgium and Hardenberg, Netherlands, which have never been available on DVD before.

.. WONDERFUL

Media Music     CD/DVD   (CD and DVD)
Number of units 2
Released September 25, 2020
EAN/UPC 0885513023728
Label MIG MUSIC MIG02372
Genre Rock
Dimensions 124 × 143 × 9 mm   ·   120 g   (Weight (estimated))

Track list

  1. 1.   CD/DVD  

    1. Life is Almost Wonderful
    2. Pass Me the Memories
    3. Old King Cole
    4. Martha & Arthur
    5. Looking from My Window
    6. Whispers in the Night
    7. I Want to Sit with the Girls
    8. Oceans of Love
    9. Searching for a Friend
    10. Strange Pictures
    11. Be Your Sugar Daddy
    12. How It Burns
    13. The Eisenhower / Churchill Blues
    14. I Know Who You Are
    15. This is Not a Joke

  2. 2.   CD/DVD  

    1. Life is Almost Wonderful
    2. Martha & Arthur
    3. Looking from My Window
    4. How It Burns
    5. I Want to Sit with the Girls
    6. Whispers in the Night
    7. Strange Pictues
    8. Be Your Sugar Daddy
    9. I Know Who You Are
    10. Karate King
    11. Lunatic
    12. We've Got a Love of Our Own

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