Chris Rea - BBC Sessions, Volume 9: Saturday Programme, Maida Vale Studios, London, Britain, 10-13-2006

Here's another album in a mini-flood of Chris Rea BBC albums. Like all the previous ones, this is a concert.

In 2005, Rea released his 25th studio album, "Blue Guitars." This was no ordinary studio album. In fact, I would bet it's the longest studio album by a major musical act. It consisted of ten albums containing 137 songs in total, all of them originals. That added up to over ten hours of music! This mega-album explored virtually all genres of blues music, with each of the ten albums having a different theme.

Since Rea didn't release a new album in 2006, half of the songs in this concert come from his "Blue Guitars" album - specifically, tracks 1, 2, 4, and 6. The rest are hits from earlier in his career.

This is the last BBC concert I could find by Rea. But I did find some BBC studio sessions after 2006, enough for an album. (Which is a bit strange, since I didn't find studio sessions from before 2006, but so it goes.) So that will be the final BBC album I plan to post from him.

This album is 44 minutes long.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

01 Jazzy Blue (Chris Rea)
02 Where the Blues Come From (Chris Rea)
03 Josephine (Chris Rea)
04 Work Gang (Chris Rea)
05 Easy Rider (Chris Rea)
06 'Til the Morning Sun Shines on My Love and Me (Chris Rea)
07 Stainsby Girls (Chris Rea)
08 The Road to Hell I and II (Chris Rea)

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alternate: 

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The cover photo was taken at the Heineken Music Hall, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on March 22, 2006. I thought it was interesting to show him playing the harmonica instead of the guitar, for once. Note the glass slide on one of his fingers.