Released 4 May 1999 Release date 4 May 1999 | Label InsideOut Records | |
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Length 56:33 (Original issue)71:39 (2013 reissue) Darktown(1999) Sketches of Satie(2000) Similar Steve Hackett albums, Progressive rock albums |
Steve hackett darktown
Darktown is the 14th studio album from British Musician Steve Hackett, released in 1999. It was reissued in 2013 with 3 bonus tracks. On this reissue, the title was mis-spelt as "Darktwon" on the sides of the CD case.
Contents
- Steve hackett darktown
- Steve hackett omega metallicus
- Track listing
- 2013 Reissue Bonus Tracks
- Personnel
- Production
- Songs
- References
Darktown is the last album to feature Julian Colbeck as a keyboardist, on the title track only. Colbeck had played with Hackett for much of the 1990s. Darktown shows the increasing role that Roger King would play as a part of Hackett's band, as a producer and keyboardist and later as a co-writer.
Steve hackett omega metallicus
Track listing
All songs written by Steve Hackett, except indicated.
- "Omega Metallicus" – 3:48
- "Darktown" – 4:59
- "Man Overboard" – 4:17
- "The Golden Age of Steam" – 4:09
- "Days of Long Ago" (Hackett, Diamond) – 3:23
- "Dreaming with Open Eyes" – 6:54
- "Twice Around the Sun" – 7:15
- "Rise Again" – 4:26
- "Jane Austen's Door" – 6:13
- "Darktown Riot" – 3:10
- "In Memoriam" – 7:59
2013 Reissue Bonus Tracks
- "Flame" – 4:21
- "Coming Home to the Blues" – 6:13
- "Fast Flower" – 4:32
"Flame" had previously been released on the Japanese edition of Hackett's 2003 album To Watch the Storms, "Coming Home to the Blues" on the Japanese edition of Darktown and "Fast Flower" on the Japanese edition of Hackett's 2009 album Out of the Tunnel's Mouth.
Personnel
Production
Songs
1Omega Metallicus3:48
2Darktown5:00
3Man Overboard4:17