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RICK WAKEMAN

SIMPLY ACCOUSTIC
Label HOPE
Catalog HOPEGZ003CD
Format CD
Discs 1
Category ROCK/POPS
Street Date 2017-06-28
Description
Here with just a grand piano Wakeman manages to roll thirty-plus years of music into an entertaining and quite rewarding trip down memory lane in front of a live audience. He gives forth with arrangements of his work from every point in his career from his time with the Strawbs (A Glimpse Of Heaven) his days as a marathon session musician (David Bowie’s Space Oddity Cat Stevens’ Morning Has Broken) his various stints with Yes and ABWH (a lovely version of Wonderous Stories and a medley of The Meeting and And You And I) and high points from his solo career in the bargain. Wakeman intersperses these performances with stories of how the songs and pieces were written and he is a natural racounter and howlingly funny at times. If the music thing doesn’t work out he’d make a killing doing stand-up comedy in the Catskills! All told SIMPLY ACOUSTIC is a concert recording that makes you wish you’d actually been there--what better praise is there?
tracklisting
1. A Wish
2. A Glimpse Of Heaven
3. Catherine Howard
4. Morning Has Broken
5. Wonderous Stories
6. St. Michaels Isle/Chapel Hill
7. Space Oddity/Life On Mars
8. The Meeting
9. And You And I/Merlin The Magician
10. Gone But Not Forgotten
 

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