What Are You Listening To?

[Ruby]

... and because this is how listening goes - on to Steve Harley. He sings a track on I Robot, hence the choice - wondered what he was up to and found that he released an album in February of this year, Uncovered.



Full of some of my favourite strings - it's a strangely endearing album of what he prefers to call interpretations along with four of his own songs, or songs he's co-written. Acoustic and unplugged, he laid down the vocals in a day and a half and there is no equalization - from Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncovered_...ley_album) ...

"We went in with the best acoustic instruments money can buy, the best microphones, the best studio, the best recording equipment, the best musicians and the best engineer. Now I've got all that going for me, why would I let [the engineer] meddle? I wanted it to sound like I'm in your living room when you play it through your speakers. The voice is up front and everything around me is as if we were playing in your house. No effects. It's as organic and natural as a recording could possibly be, I'm really proud of that. My engineer Matt Butler is the man who made it sound so fabulous."

Don't know a whole lot about Mr Harley and/or Cockney Rebel, other than his most popular songs. Anyone else? I know he has been associated with a few fine musicians and seems to have a certain cachet. Love his take on this traditional song - lyrics by Robbie Burns ...