For those of you who are obsessivly desperate for a track list, here's one posted on Chris Rea on Facebook, for the gig in Dresden: "Tudor Mocanu Hello to all, here is the playlist from the concert in Dresden (26.01): I can't wait for love/Work gang/Where the blues come from/Josephine/Easy ride...

Some info about Paul Casey for those who are interested.

http://www.paulcaseymusic.com/Paul_Case ... /News.html

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Congrats Bart, Keep it going!

I have met some dear Rea friends on this forum

All the best,

Lily

Happy New Year!!!

http://www.bluemountain.com/view.pd?i=2 ... rce=bma999

I hope many of you get to see Chris Rea in concert this year

Lily

Hello Chubbs,

Chubbs wrote:I first saw Chris supporting Lindisfarne, around the late seventies at the Newcastle City Hall and have followed is career since.

Well, you do go way back...!

You'll probably enjoy reading this bit here:
http://www.lindisfarne.de/misc/0712_gravy.htm

Cheers,

Lily

I got this email from BBC Radio today:

What is a Christmas Carol?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/ne ... 415565.stm

Lily

I hope people will download the song anyway...regardless of the hapless video!

Lily

Hey Kev, I already wished you Happy Birthday on FB... but Happy Birthday again!...

Lily

Congrats Jutta, all this time I thought you were a man... :lol: About your post, As to what Mr Blues said, yes, some songs are maybe not so bluesy, but I think the whole earbook shows the roots of blues and all the connections to other genres. I agree with you both, maybe not all the songs are blues...

About the Blues portion of the interview, my friend Andrea (in Germany) told me Chris said this: a new CD about the "bridge between the New Orleans blues and what I call the Florence Mediterranean blues" He tells about an argument with Bill Wyman who told him after listening to Blue Guitar...

Thanks for the reply elangelo...

Lily

Hi there, Anybody knows why the Russian Chris Rea website closed? http://chrisrea.in.ua/index.htm It was up there for a few years but they have been gone for about a month now. I used to enjoy browsing it, even though I don't speak a word of Russian! ... :lol: It was well organized. Whose site was i...

Hi,

I have this version of Moonriver from the concert at Kremlin Palace, 2006, if anybody wants it:

https://www.onlinefilefolder.com/2sf32C8Pdo3EeP

Lily

Hello Bart, Thanks for the update and the new avatar level, "Master of CeREAmony", hilarious! It took me a little while to figure the board out again, I could only see the newest posts once I signed in :-) Thanks for the hard work, as usual, we miss it when the board is not around to chat ...