CD-Charts Position 1

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Foot Hill Stomp

Search: Catfish Girl
by: Richard Johnston

Release Date September 03, 2002

CD-Charts Position 2
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Dancing Down the Stony Road

Search: Catfish Girl
by: Chris Rea

Release Date September 16, 2002
This is the new Chris Rea. Back on his feet again after his life-threatening illness, he's kicked into touch all that defined his earlier work. He is no longer going to pander to his record company, to their demands, to their expectations: in short, to their vision of how to sell Chris' music. He is doing his own thing. Not only is he the writer, singer and (awesome) guitarist, he is the arranger, producer and band leader. This is the album he always wanted to make. Forget what you thought you knew about Chris Rea. He's now a blues musician. And, boy, does he do it well.

The result of months of hard work in the south of France, the arrangements are pain-stakingly thought-out with several versions of each track tried out before ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 3
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Blue Guitars [11CD + DVD]

Search: Catfish Girl
by: Chris Rea

Release Date October 17, 2005
Whilst I admire Chris Rea's ambition I fear the scope was too great and he stretched himself too far. From 11 CDs I found only 11 songs of top notch material. The majority of the rest was rather generic needing further effort applied or simply forgotten all together. Therefore it's quite a hefty sum to pay out when the majority of it is so unrewarding. Instead I'd recommend people save their money for the Blue Jukebox album which is a far more focused and rewarding experience.