Homesick (Deacon Blue album)

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Released 30 April 2001 Length 45:42 Release date 30 April 2001 Label Pappillon		Recorded July 1999 - May 2000 Artist Deacon Blue Producer Ricky Ross Genres Pop music, Rock music

Homesick(2001) The Very Best of Deacon Blue(2001) Similar Fellow Hoodlums, Walking Back Home, The Hipsters, Ooh Las Vegas, Whatever You Say - Say Nothi

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Homesick is a studio album from the Scottish rock band Deacon Blue. Released in May 2001, it was the band's fifth studio album (or the sixth, counting the part-studio, part-compilation Walking Back Home released two years earlier). It was their final album to feature guitarist Graeme Kelling, who died in 2004.

A promotional CD was made available to readers of The Daily Telegraph via a voucher appearing in the newspaper two weeks before the album release date. This contained three tracks from the album ("Silverlake", "This Train Will Take You Anywhere", and "Homesick", the last in an exclusive acoustic mix), and three other tracks ("Away", "Wages Day", and "Dignity").

Deacon blue homesick live 2001

Track listing

All songs written by Ricky Ross, except where noted:

"Rae" (Ross, Prime, MacDonald)– 4:46
"Out There" – 3:46
"This Train Will Take You Anywhere" (Ross, Slaven) – 4:48
"Everytime You Sleep" – 4:06
"Now That You're Here" (Ross, Prime) – 4:00
"Silverlake" (Ross, Prime) – 4:36
"A is for Astronaut" – 3:03
"Beautifully Still" – 4:12
"Homesick" – 4:14
"Even Higher Ground" (Ross, Gary Clark)– 3:52
"I Am Born" - 4:22

2012 reissue

On 29 October 2012, Edsel Records released an expanded edition of the album, containing extra B-sides from the two singles and new lyrics, notes and photos from Ricky Ross. In the notes from Ricky, he referred to it as "a record we should perhaps never have made"