Track Listing

1. Field
2. Moving Targets
3. Rookie
4. Zoo Class
5. Lost Plot
6. Old Crow
7. Numbers
8. Exit Wound
9. Innocent Party
10. Shot The Craw
11. Scattering Crows

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16974 in Music
• Released on: 2004-04-19
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
"…dynamic and powerful, he roars out the lyrics with undiluted passion, at all times in total control of the crowd." Edinburgh Evening News)

Scottish singer/songwriter Fish has announced 14 live dates in his 2004 European tour. The former Marillion front man and his all-Scottish band will play venues around Europe. The big man of British Rock (all 6'6" of him) will be joined by ex-Big Country star Bruce Watson on guitar along with Frank Usher. Steve Vantsis is on bass, Tony Turrell on keyboards, Windsor McGilvray on drums and Danny Gillan will provide backing vocals. Fish’s live shows are legendary, not only for his powerful voice and stage presence, but also for the interaction with the audience as well his anecdotes and thoughts which are scattered throughout the gig. The tour coincides with this latest release from Fish, Field of Crows. This is Fish’s twelfth studio album in a music career that has spanned over 23 years and is his eighth solo project since leaving Marillion in 1988. "I am very proud of this album and if it is my last one then it’s a good one to leave on!" says Fish. Recorded at Fish's house in East Lothian, it is an album that is bound to delight his fans and surprise others. Strongly Blues influenced (especially Zoo Class) with a beautiful ballad (Shot the Craw), the raw rock sound is punchy and anthemic, with tracks like Old Crow begging to be played live.

Customer Reviews

Should have been a swansong
Fish intended this to be a final album before concentrating almost exclusively upon his acting career. In this album the listener hears him at his most inspired for a long time; perhaps still smarting from a somewhat cool reception to Fellini Days, Fish returns to a more straightforward rock approach. The guitar of Frank Usher is strong and to the fore here as Fish muses upon the usual issues of life, love and death, pursuing throughout the extended metaphor of warfare and the life of a soldier. This ould have been a worthy final album but, as 13th Star suggests, there's life in the old man yet.

Fish mixes it up once more
I wasn't aware of this album until I saw it here on Amazon.
The songs are quite varied, so some songs will appeal whilst others won't.

I love Scattering Crows, as well as The Rookie and Exit Wound; three classics as far as I'm concerned.

Of the rest, Old Crow is quite catchy, and Zoo Class and The Lost Plot are worth a listen.

The only duff tracks for me are The Field, Shot the Craw, and Innocent Party.

Well worth adding to your collection.

Field of Crows - possibly the best Fish album ever
This just rocks. As a Fish fan for years, since the Marilion days, I've had a ove hate realtionship with some of his music direction, rescued by "raingods with Zippo's", but then dumped by the self indulgent Fellini Days, I was a bit apprehensive about Field of Crows, but from the very start it just hit home immediately. The balance of Frank Usher and Bruce Watson bounce off each other, FRank standign out with his somehwat unique style.
Its amazing to read the reviews on amazon.com as opposed to these on co.uk.. this album really got tongues wagging and fingers typing.
True, with hindsight, Fish should maybe have never left Marillion, thats history, but had he not, perhaps we woudl never have had the long wandering path through many styles, ups, downs, and roundabouts whcih brought us to this absolutely fantastic album.
Only one criticism, maybe some of the "bridges" are a little bit on the longside and to muddled, but hey, no-one is perfect..