Eddi Reader / The Blanco y Negro Years / five-CD box set

The three albums Eddi Reader recorded for Geoff Travis’ Blanco y Negro label in the late nineties, have been collected with extensive bonus tracks for a new five-CD box set.

The Blanco y Negro Years features the Scottish singer-songwriter’s second solo album Eddi Reader from 1994, follow-up Candyfloss And Medicine (1996) and Angels & Electricity from 1998. The first two albums come with companion bonus discs featuring many non-album singles b-sides, including covers of songs by Paul Buchanan (of The Blue Nile), Ray Davies, Ivor Cutler and the Trash Can Sinatras, as a well as a collaboration with Jools Holland and his orchestra. Angels & Electricity is appended with three bonus tracks.

This is packaged as a clamshell box and comes complete with a booklet with all the credits and lyrics as well as some words by Colin Irwin.

The Blanco y Negro Years is released on 15 June 2015.

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Track listing

DISC ONE

EDDI READER

• 1. The Right Place
• 2. Patience Of Angels
• 3. Dear John
• 4. Scarecrow
• 5. East Of Us
• 6. Joke (I’m Laughing)
• 7. The Exception
• 8. Red Face Big Sky
• 9. Howling In Ojai
• 10. When I Watch
• You Sleeping
• 11. Wonderful Lie
• 12. Siren

DISC TWO

BONUS TRACKS

• 1. Shirt And Comb
• 2. Saturday Night
• 3. Wonderboy
• 4. Three Crosses
• 5. Go And Sit Upon The Grass
• 6. Battersea Moon
• 7. When I Watch You Sleeping [demo version]
• 8. What You Do With What You’ve Got
• 9. That’s Fair
• 10. Nobody Lives Without Love

DISC THREE

CANDYFLOSS AND MEDICINE

• 1. Glasgow Star
• 2. Town Without Pity
• 3. Medicine
• 4. Rebel Angel
• 5. Semi-Precious
• 6. Lazy Heart
• 7. I Loved A Lad
• 8. Butterfly Jar
• 9. Candyfloss
• 10. Darkhouse

DISC FOUR

BONUS TRACKS

• 1. Leave The Light On
• 2. Shall I Be Mother
• 3. If You’ve Got A Minute, Baby
• 4. Sex Lives
• 5. Earlies
• 6. Sugar On The Pill
• 7. Nameless
• 8. John Anderson My Joe
• 9. Green Grow The Rashes
• 10. Who Knows Where The Time Goes
• 11. Waiting Game [Jools Holland & Eddi Reader & The Rhythm & Blues Orchestra]

DISC FIVE

ANGELS & ELECTRICITY

• 1. Kiteflyer’s Hill
• 2. Prayer Wheel
• 3. Postcard
• 4. Wings On My Heels
• 5. On A Whim
• 6. Hummingbird
• 7. Barcelona Window
• 8. Bell, Book And Candle
• 9. California
• 10. Follow My Tears
• 11. Psychic Reader
• 12. Please Don’t Ask Me To Dance
• 13. Clear

BONUS TRACKS

• 14. Homesick Son
• 15. St. Christopher
• 16. Buckets Of Rain

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