Written by Bella Hardy & Iain Thomson
Words written by Bella in the 6th Alley Bar at Arapahoe Basin, Colorado.
Colorado was recorded at Chem19 Recording Studio in Glasgow during the 'Hey Sammy' sessions, is produced by Paul Savage, and features, Tom Gibbs on piano, Iain Thomson on guitar, John Blease on drums, and James Lindsay on bass.
lyrics
Colorado
(Bella Hardy & Iain Thomson)
Sunset salute, mountain silhouette
Stands black on a russet line
Peach, blue and green, and each colour between
A flag on a blue bird sky
The bar room fills up as the light slips away
Through windows it comes radiant shining
A sunset salute as the band starts to play
The retreat march of another day
The stars and the stripes, day meets night
Over Colorado’s red rock and snow
No sound save the wind, she sings through the pines
Rooted fast to the cold below
The bar room fills up as the light slips away
Through windows it comes radiant shining
A sunset salute as the band starts to play
The retreat march of another day
Where somebody’s fathers father’s dug down for gold
Now our wealth’s in white diamond snow
And as each unique snowflake will melt in it’s time
So like dust back to dust we will go
The bar room fills up as the light slips away
Through windows it comes radiant shining
A sunset salute as the band starts to play
The retreat march of another day
From the bar room we watch as the light slips away
Through windows it pours radiant shining
A sunset salute as the band starts to play
The retreat march of another day
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released September 28, 2018
Written by Bella Hardy & Iain Thomson
Words written by Bella in the 6th Alley Bar at Arapahoe Basin, Colorado.
Colorado was recorded at Chem19 Recording Studio in Glasgow during the 'Hey Sammy' sessions, is produced by Paul Savage, and features, Tom Gibbs on piano, Iain Thomson on guitar, John Blease on drums, and James Lindsay on bass.
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John Drumbo French from Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band worked with Thompson on two albums along with Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser.
Those two French, Frith, Kaiser and Thompson albums led me to this.
Also, Richard Thompson taught Hugh Cornwell (of The Stranglers) how to play the bass guitar in a band when they were both at the same school (Emil and The Detectives?).
With a career spanning 50 years and playing with two of my heroes (French and Cornwell) Thompson has produced a fascinating EP.
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