Track Listing

1. Espresso Logic
2. Red
3. Soup Of The Day
4. Johnny Needs A Fast Car
5. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
6. Julia
7. Summer Love
8. New Way
9. Stop
10. She Closed Her Eyes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56460 in Music
• Released on: 1993-11-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

If you liked the album....
You'll love this. Ideally you'd play guitar or piano to get this well produced sheet music, but if you just like the songs and want to sing along get it aswell.

The chords used by Rea are often very jazzy and hard to work out-the chords used in the first half of the song Red for example. Getting this book will tell you what they are and you'll never have the problem again!

Theres even a short biography ( now somewhat dated ) at the beginning. Buy this book , and also the scores also available to Auberge , Road to Hell , and if you can get them New light...., Gods great BS and Dancing with Strangers. Play a long with Chris , to enjoy the beauty of the music!

A good album.
Chris Rea's album Espresso Logic got into the top10 albums when it was released but only the single Julia has had any amount of fame.

The title track with its blues kind of opening is certainly better when it picks up. Red , starts with a great piano theme, the chords used here are very good.
Soup of the day has words we can all relate to. Johnny... is good , one of the riffs similar to the main theme of Auberge.

The devil and the deep blue sea is more laid back, but quite good. Julia is a rock song, and New Way is the same- my personal favourites. Stop is a jazz classic, with piano, strings and some sound effects at the end.
She closed her eyes is not typical Rea. It is mainly spoken ( in the same sort of vain as At the mention of your name on Auberge )
and so is my least favourite track.

Overall this album is probably most like God great banana skin, with the style that Rea adopted a lot in his 90's music.

REAlly average..........
Rea seemed to lose his way at this junction of his career - This CD is not bad but it is very patchy. High spots are the title track, the homage to his youngest daughter "Julia" (well he had to one for her after Josephine already had hers!!), "Johny drives a fast car" and "Soup of the day", the rest is pretty average stuff with Rea seemingly going through his record company comitment motions. The fact that he failed to promote the CD apart from having it advertised on the side of his rally car speaks volumes about his attitude to this one. It's well produced and musicianship, as usual, is high class but it just does not have much of a spark to it.