Peacetime (album)
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Peacetime is the eighth studio album by Eddi Reader
Eddi Reader
Eddi Reader MBE is a Scottish singer-songwriter, known both for her work with Fairground Attraction and for an enduring solo career. She is the recipient of three BRIT Awards and has topped both the album and singles charts...

 released in the UK on January 29, 2007.

The album was promoted the following month by a full UK tour with her own band including John McCusker, Boo Hewerdine, Kevin McGuire, Alan Kelly and Roy Dodds.

Eddi says the album started with a desire to work with some of the UK's amazing traditional folk musicians and some contemporary players who she considers the best in their field. "They are free from the normal music business eccentricities and attitude that I associate with the pop industry," she explains.

"They are like old New Orleans jazz players in their lack of ego and interest in making a complete sound with whoever is in the room.

"I wanted to inject some soul into some of the old songs. I wanted to record, play with them like they were brand new, revealing the heart within them."

She also has written some new songs: "I wanted to hear what these musicians would do with them; I was inviting them into my world as I stepped into theirs. As a result the modern songs have a real traditional thread going through them, making it all hopefully ... just music not labelled folk or contemporary or singer-songwriter or jazz!"

Track listing

  1. "Baron's Heir and Sadenia's Air" (John McCusker) - 4:25
  2. "Muddy Water" (Boo Hewerdine) - 3:34
  3. "Mary and the Soldier" (Traditional) - 3:36
  4. "Aye Waukin-O" (Traditional) - 4:03
  5. "Prisons" (John Douglas) - 2:38
  6. "The Shepherd's Song" (Traditional/lyrics by Eddi Reader and John Douglas) - 3:36
  7. "Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon" (Traditional) - 3:35
  8. "Should I Pray?" (John Douglas) - 3:17
  9. "The Afton" (Johnny Dillon) - 4:37
  10. "Leezie Lindsay" (Traditional/Robert Burns/Eddi Reader/ Boo Hewerdine) - 4:46
  11. "Safe As Houses" (Eddi Reader/Boo Hewerdine) - 3:52
  12. "Galileo (Someone Like You)" (Declan O'Rourke
    Declan O'Rourke
    Declan O'Rourke is a 33 year old platinum record singer/songwriter from Dublin, Ireland.-Career:At the age of 13, when living in Australia with his family, O'Rourke was given his first guitar by a priest in Kyabram who recognised his potential and love for music, hence the title of his debut album...

    ) - 3:10
  13. "Peacetime" (Boo Hewerdine) - 7:40
  14. "The Calton Weaver or Nancy Whisky" (Traditional) - hidden bonus track

Personnel

  • Eddi Reader: vocals and guitar
  • John McCusker
    John McCusker
    John McCusker is a Scottish folk musician, record producer and composer. An accomplished fiddle player, he had a long association as a member of the Battlefield Band beginning in the 1990s and was later a band member and producer for folk singer Kate Rusby...

    : fiddle, cittern, piano, tenor guitar, keyboards
  • Boo Hewerdine
    Boo Hewerdine
    Boo Hewerdine is an English singer-songwriter. His work includes lead singer and creative force behind The Bible, formed in the 1980s, and reformed in 1994, as well as solo recordings and work for film. He lives in Ely....

    : guitars
  • Ian Carr
    Ian Carr (guitarist)
    Ian Carr is an English guitarist and producer from Yorkshire, who has performed with Swåp and The Kate Rusby Band.Until the late 1990s, Carr was a part of The Kathryn Tickell Band...

    : guitars
  • John Douglas: guitars, backing vocals
  • Roy Dodds: drums, percussion
  • Ewen Vernal
    Ewen Vernal
    Ewen Vernal is a Scottish musician.Born in Glasgow to a musical family, Vernal began taking piano lessons at 8 years old—inspired by a Beatles-singing mother and a choir-leading, saxophone-playing father...

    : double bass
  • Kevin McGuire: double bass
  • Alan Kelly: accordion
  • Michael McGoldrick
    Michael McGoldrick
    Michael McGoldrick is a flute and tin whistle player. He also plays the Uilleann pipes and low whistle. He is well known for his ability to skate switch and regular with the same level of ability.-Bands:...

    : flute, whistles, pipes
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