Description:
Deacon Blue – The Great Western Road [Tour Edition] (2025)
Review:
Deacon Blue release a limited tour edition of The Great Western Road. The album will include 5 bonus tracks, an expanded booklet with alternative artwork and new liner notes written by Ricky Ross. This was to be the last album that, founder member, James Prime was to record, followed by his sudden passing in June this year. The band have dedicated this release to him, Ricky Ross: “None of us knows what tomorrow will bring but we celebrate that we got to do it together one last, glorious time.” 2025 marks 40 years since Ricky Ross met Dougie Vipond and they started to form Deacon Blue, the songs on ‘The Great Western Road’ reflect the journey the band has taken and remain honest to the age and experience they all share. The joyous lead single ‘Late ’88’ fondly remembers the care-free excitement of those early days. ‘The Great Western Road’ was recorded at the legendary Rockfield Studios, Ricky Ross and (Deacon Blue guitarist and long term collaborator) Gregor Philp return to production duties, having last produced the bands’ Top 5 charting and their last full length album, 2020’s ‘City Of Love’. This album was recorded by Matt Butler, who first worked with the band on their debut, ‘Raintown’. — deaconblue.tmstor.es
Track List:
01. The Great Western Road
02. Late '88
03. People Come First
04. Wait On Me
05. Ashore
06. Underneath The Stars
07. Up Hope
08. Turn Up Your Radio!
09. How We Remember It
10. Mid Century Modern
11. Curve Of The Line
12. If I Lived On My Own
13. Easter Monday
14. Connie and Sam
15. Charlie Boy
16. Her (Demo)
17. Much Too Close To Love (Demo)
Media Report:
Genre: pop, rock
Origin: Glasgow, Scotland, UK 
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.3.0 (UTC 2013-05-26)
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