A sublime duo for a high-end blues!The CD "Life Is Almost Wonderful" was only sold at concerts by the duo they played together back in 2002 in Belgium and Netherlands. If they had set out to be invisible Coyne and Croker couldn't have planned it much better. But they were two artists not bothered about record company deals, distribution and other practical matters. Never mind, the main thing is this marvellous acoustic album.Although "recorded by post" (Croker sent the basic guitar tracks and Kevin improvised the lyrics on top), the album is an amazing symbiosis, as if the two were on exactly the same wavelength. There are too many great titles to detail here. "Life Is Almost Wonderful" is a masterpiece where Coyne, with Croker's acoustic backing (some lavish guitar-harp included), conjures up wartime memories, the '50s of his childhood, catholic schools and other peculiar subjects such as the multicoloured eyes of parrots and the story of an English clerk trying to dig through his garden to Australia.The album is completed by a bonus DVD with insights from their 2002 concerts in Leffinge, Belgium and Hardenberg, Netherlands, which have never been available on DVD before.
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Track Listing
Disc 1:
- Life Is Almost Wonderful
- Pass Me The Memories
- Old King Cole
- Martha & Arthur
- Looking From My Window
- Whispers In The Night
- I Want To Sit With The Girls
- Oceans Of Love
- Searching For A Friend
- Strange Pictures
- Be Your Sugar Daddy
- How It Burns
- The Eisenhower/Churchill Blues
- I Know Who You Are
- This Is Not A Joke
Disc 2:
- Life Is Almost Wonderful - acoustic, live @ De Zwerver in Leffinge, Belgium, 13.11.2002
- Martha & Arthur - acoustic, live @ De Zwerver in Leffinge, Belgium, 13.11.2002
- Looking From My Window - acoustic, live @ De Zwerver in Leffinge, Belgium, 13.11.2002
- How It Burns - acoustic, live @ De Zwerver in Leffinge, Belgium, 13.11.2002
- I Want To Sit With The Girls - acoustic, live @ De Zwerver in Leffinge, Belgium, 13.11.2002
- Whispers In The Night - acoustic, live @ De Zwerver in Leffinge, Belgium, 13.11.2002
- Strange Pictures - acoustic, live @ De Zwerver in Leffinge, Belgium, 13.11.2002
- Be Your Sugar Daddy - acoustic, live @ Troubadour in Hardenberg, Netherlands, 01.12.2002
- I Know Who You Are - acoustic, live @ Troubadour in Hardenberg, Netherlands, 01.12.2002
- Karate King - acoustic, live @ Troubadour in Hardenberg, Netherlands, 01.12.2002
- Lunatic - acoustic, live @ Troubadour in Hardenberg, Netherlands, 01.12.2002
- We've got a Love - acoustic, live @ De Zwerver in Leffinge, Belgium, 13.11.2002
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