''Darktown'' is the 14th studio album from British Musician

Steve Hackett Stephen Richard Hackett (born 12 February 1950) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who gained prominence as the lead guitarist of the progressive rock band Genesis from 1971 to 1977. Hackett contributed to six Genesis ...

, released in 1999. It was reissued in 2013 with 3 bonus tracks. On some copies of this reissue, the title was misspelled as "Darktwon" on the sides of the CD case. ''Darktown'' is the last album to feature Julian Colbeck as a keyboardist, on the title track only. Colbeck had played with Hackett for much of the 1990s. ''Darktown'' shows the increasing role that Roger King would play as a part of Hackett's band, as a producer and keyboardist and later as a co-writer.

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Hackett, except indicated. #"Omega Metallicus" – 3:48 #"Darktown" – 4:59 #"Man Overboard" – 4:17 #"The Golden Age of Steam" – 4:09 #"Days of Long Ago" (Hackett, Diamond) – 3:23 #"Dreaming with Open Eyes" – 6:54 #"Twice Around the Sun" – 7:15 #"Rise Again" – 4:26 #"Jane Austen's Door" – 6:13 #"Darktown Riot" – 3:10 #"In Memoriam" – 7:59

1999 Japanese bonus tracks

#"The Well At The World's End" (Instrumental) – 3:52 #"Comin' Home To The Blues" – 6:1
Japan Edition

2013 Reissue bonus tracks

#"Flame" – 4:21 #"Coming Home to the Blues" – 6:13 #"Fast Flower" – 4:32 "Flame" had previously been released on the Japanese edition of Hackett's 2003 album ''

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'', "Coming Home to the Blues" on the Japanese edition of ''Darktown'' and "Fast Flower" on the Japanese edition of Hackett's 2009 album ''

Out of the Tunnel's Mouth ''Out of the Tunnel's Mouth'' is the 20th studio album by English guitarist and songwriter Steve Hackett, released in October 2009 by Wolfwork and EAR Music. Hackett started recording the album in 2008 while he was involved in a legal case against ...

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Personnel

* Billy Budis – cello * Julian Colbeck – keyboards *

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– drums * Jim Diamond – vocals * Ben Fenner –

mellotron The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which pushes a length of magnetic tape against a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. A ...

* Bob Fenner – guitar, recorder * Aron Friedman – piano, keyboards * John Hackett –

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

pan pipes A pan flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth). Multiple varieties of pan flutes have been ...

* Steve Hackett – guitar, harmonica, piano, strings, violin, vocals, choir, chorus,

12 string guitar A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lower four courses are tuned in o ...

, woodwind, rainstick, sequencing, orchestration, 12-string bass guitar, nylon string guitar, voiceover * Roger King – bass, drums,

flageolet The flageolet is a woodwind instrument and a member of the fipple flute family which includes recorders and tin whistles. Its invention was erroneously ascribed to the 16th-century Sieur Juvigny in 1581. There are two basic forms of the instrume ...

, keyboards, woodwind, wood * Ian McDonald – saxophone * Jerry Peal – strings, bells, woodwind * Doug Sinclair – bass,

fretless bass A fretless bass is a bass guitar whose neck does not have any frets. While the instrument is played in all styles of music, it is most common in pop, rock, and jazz. It first saw widespread use during the 1970s, although some players used them befo ...

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– bass samples

Production

*Richard Buckland – engineer, ambience *Billy Budis – engineer, mixing, management *Paul Cox – photography, portrait photography *Jamie McKena – choir coordinator *Harry Pearce – photography *Lippa Pearce – design

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1999 albums Steve Hackett albums Inside Out Music albums