21st Century Boogie is the debut album by Paddy Milner

Paddy Milner

Paddy Milner is a Scottish singer-songwriter.-History:After living for a short while in Scotland, Milner spent most of his youth in Dorset, England. It was here that he was exposed to music from an early age and learnt to play the piano...

, released on June 24, 2002.

Paddy Milner's music shows many influences ranging from pop

Pop music

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-rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 through to jazz

Jazz

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, classical

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

 and British folk. 21st Century Boogie shows his attention to blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 and boogie-woogie

Boogie-woogie

Boogie-woogie has the following meanings:*Boogie-woogie, a piano-based music style*Boogie-woogie , a swing dance or a dance that imitates the rock-n-roll dance of the 1950s*"Boogie Woogie" , a song by EuroGroove and Dannii Minogue...

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It was released to a flood of outstanding reviews, solidly sealing his reputation as one of the most original musicians. During the year of release on Paul Jones

Paul Jones (singer)

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's Radio 2

BBC Radio 2

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 show, the album was placed in the year's top ten records, whilst Milner himself was shortlisted for the British Blues Keyboard Player of 2002. Jools Holland

Jools Holland

Julian Miles "Jools" Holland OBE, DL is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer, and television presenter. He was a founder of the band Squeeze and his work has involved him with many artists including Sting, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, The Who, David Gilmour and Bono.Holland is a...

has become an ardent fan, telling Milner "You make the piano sing".

Track listing

1. "Walking on Eggshells"
2. "21st Century Boogie"
3. "I'm Ready"
4. "Swannee River Samba"
5. "The Days, the Nights"
6. "Highway of Sound"
7. "Prelude to Caravan"
8. "Caravan"
9. "Late Nights Playing the Blues"
10. "Prelude to the Bumble Fumble"
11. "The Bumble Fumble"
12. "Boogie Woogie Time of Year"
13. "The World is Getting Smaller Everyday"