WOOD CHRIS Evening Blue (180g / Limited Numbered Edition: LP+4CD+Book)

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Over four years in development, Evening Blue is the first book-set to chronicle and celebrate Chris Wood’s life in music from co-founding Traffic via his many collaborations with the likes of John Martyn, The Wailers’ Tyrone Downie, Free and many others to his own solo work.

The first edition, limited to 1,000 individually numbered copies, will be issued this via HiddenMasters new worldwide distribution deal with Caroline International on the 4th February.

Evening Blue has been curated in close collaboration with Steph Wood who administers her brother’s estate. Included are:

A first pressing of Chris’s never-released solo LP on 180gsm vinyl. The ¼” reels were compiled and sequenced by Chris with engineer Terry Barham at Island’s Fall Out Shelter studio in Hammersmith on Sunday, October 1st 1978. Long thought lost, the masters were discovered by chance in a barn in the West of England during the spring of 2013. While some titles are known, none of the selections have previously been heard.

Side Two: Jam In Butter | Moon Child Vulcan | Tone Blind Rhythm Deaf | Birth In A Day

It will be housed in a 200+ page hardback book which includes over 420 images, the majority of which have not been seen before. The text has been abridged and edited from Dan Ropek’s biography of Chris and, together with Ropek’s own interviews with the late Jim Capaldi and Paul Medcalf as well as many of Chris’s friends and musical colleagues throughout his life, Evening Blue includes exclusive interviews with: Steph Wood and Anna Capaldi-Gilbey; studio engineers Dick Cuthell, Terry Barham and Brian Humphries; musicians Mike Kellie, Steve Winwood, Poli Palmer and Gordon Jackson as well as Muscle Shoals Swampers Charles Rose and David Hood; photographers Brian Cooke, Richard Keith Wolff, Dina Regine, Barrie Wentzell, David Miller, Dan Cuny and Gered Mankowitz.

The CDs include music drawn from Chris’s entire career with his solo recordings taking centre-stage. Evening Blue also includes alternate takes and mixes as well as previously unheard compositions and never-before-heard home demos and other sketches.

Naturally, there is music from Traffic as well as recordings by Gordon Jackson, John Martyn, Dave Mason, Sky, Jim Capaldi, Bobby Whitlock, Airforce, Martha Velez, Shawn Phillips and others.

The set also features previously unheard collaborative work with The Wailers’ keyboard player, Tyrone Downie as well as Rebop Kwaku Baah, Remi Kabaka, Dr John and Jeanette Jacobs. Tracks from the only known-to-survive recordings by the short-lived Mason, Capaldi, Wood & Frog line-up are also included.

With only a couple of exceptions (where the original masters no longer exist) the selections have been re-mastered by Richard Whittaker in the UK from the original 1⁄4”, 1” or 2” analog tapes.

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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Song For Pete
2. See No Man Girl
3. Letter One
4. Barbed Wire
5. Don't It
6. Jam In Butter
7. Moon Child Vulcan
8. Tone Blind Rhythm Deaf
9. Birth In A Day

Disc: 2
1. Song For Pete
2. See No Man Girl
3. Letter One
4. Barbed Wire
5. Don't It
6. Jam In Butter
7. Moon Child Vulcan
8. Tone Blind Rhythm Deaf
9. Birth In A Day
10. No 4 B Side
11. Barbed Wire (Take 3 Alt R Mix)
12. Birth In A Day (Take 3 CW Mix)
13. Song For Pete (Studio Rehearsal Take 2)
14. See No Man Floral Dance

Disc: 3
1. Piano #1
2. Love
3. Outside In (Album Version)
4. Come Here Sweet Man
5. Flutered
6. Early In The Morning
7. Song For Freedom
8. Automatic Reggae
9. Sullen Moon (Band Recording #1)
10. Zagapam
11. Jam 1
12. There In The Greenbriar
13. Diggin' On You
14. Just For You
15. The Fame Groove
16. Lamb
17. No Time To Live

Disc: 4
1. Piano #2
2. On A Theme Of...
3. Steph's Tune
4. (Roamin' Thro' The Gloamin' With) 40.000 Headman
5. So Much In Love With You (Album Version)
6. Cinnamon Girl (First Run Through)
7. Tragic Magic
8. Polo No 1 (Sketch)
9. Game Called Life
10. Snakes And Ladders
11. Out Of Tune With The Universe
12. Meteorites
13. Ley It Up
14. Sold On Down The Line
15. Waiting On You (Live At The BBC / 1969)
16. For Rfk Jfk & Mlk
17. Sullen Moon (Demo)
18. John Barleycorn
19. Zola

Disc: 5
1. Piano #3
2. What To Look For With...
3. Vulcan (The Aurora Collaboration)
4. Coloured Rain (Mono Version)
5. Sing To Me Woman
6. Dealer (Album Version)
7. Barbed Wire (Take 2 Alt - W mix)
8. Mourning Sad Morning
9. Evening Blue
10. Feelin' Alright? (Live At The BBC)
11. All Black Festival
12. Three Hours (Alternate Version)
13. Steph's Dub
14. Spring Too (Live)
15. Rainmaker
16. Seagull
17. Sylvanæ