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Released
  
13 March 2006

Passing Stranger(2006)
  
Elsewhere(2009)

Release date
  
13 March 2006

Label
  
Island Records

Length
  
50'18"

Artist
  
Scott Matthews

Producer
  
Jon Cotton

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Studio
  
Artisan, Birmingham, England

Genres
  
Blues, Folk rock, Indie folk

Similar
  
What the Night Delivers, Elsewhere, Home Part 1, Raising Sand, Bound by the Beauty

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Passing Stranger is the debut album of British singer-songwriter, Scott Matthews, and was originally released in April 2006, before being re-issued by Island Records in October of the same year. The album contains the singles "Elusive", "Dream Song" and "Passing Stranger". After Scott won the Ivor Novello Award for 'Best Song Lyrically and Musically' for "Elusive", a deluxe edition of the album was re-released, and was made available on 25 June 2007.

Contents

The album features ten full-length songs and seven short instrumental or minimal pieces.

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Track listing

All songs written by Scott Matthews.

  1. "Little Man Tabla Jam Pt.1" – 0:40
  2. "Dream Song" – 4:42
  3. "The Fool's Fooling Himself" – 4:01
  4. "Eyes Wider Than Before" – 3:36
  5. "Blue In The Face Again" – 1:11
  6. "Sweet Scented Figure" – 4:31
  7. "Passing Stranger" – 4:32
  8. "Prayers" – 3:15
  9. "Musical Interval" – 1:11
  10. "Still Fooling" – 0:21
  11. "City Headache" – 4:59
  12. "Nylon Instrumental" – 0:19
  13. "Elusive" – 3:42
  14. "Earth To Calm" - 4:17
  15. "White Feathered Medicine" - 5:45
  16. "Little Man Tabla Jam Pt. 2" - 0:34
  17. "Bruno Finale" - 2:19

A deluxe two-disc edition was released in 2007 containing new recordings (on disc 2), produced by John Leckie and featuring a string quartet:

  1. "Dream Song" – 4:37
  2. "Eyes Wider Than Before" – 4:00
  3. "Elusive" – 3:43
  4. "City Headache" – 4:47
  5. "The Fool's Fooling Himself" – 3:59

Personnel

  • Scott Matthews – vocals, guitars, bass guitar, percussion, harmonica
  • Jon Cotton – Rhodes, piano, Wurlitzer, vibraphone, sound engineer, record producer
  • Matt Thomas – drums, percussion
  • Sukhvinder Singh Namdhari – tabla
  • Mat Taylor – saxophone, flute, clarinet
  • Richard Adey – accordion
  • Caroline Bodimead – violin
  • Charlote Miles – violin
  • Nina Kopparhead – viola
  • Elizabeth Garside – cello
  • Bruno Cavellec – voice-over

    • Songs

    Little Man Tabla Jam - Part 10:41
    Dream Song4:43
    The Fool's Fooling Himself4:01

    References

    Passing Stranger Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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