''Destiny Road'' is an album by the British

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band the

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, led by Peter Green. Released in 1999, this was their fourth album. Green was the founder of

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and a member of that group from 1967–70, before a sporadic solo career during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The album included a reworking of "Tribal Dance", which first featured on Green's 1979 solo album '' In the Skies'', and also a new version of the Fleetwood Mac hit " Man of the World".

Track listing

#"Big Change Is Gonna Come" (

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) – 5:04 #"Say that You Want To" (Pete Stroud) – 4:02 #"Heart of Stone" (Cotton) – 4:43 #"You'll Be Sorry Someday" (Cotton) – 6:32 #"Tribal Dance" ( Peter Green) – 5:31 #"Burglar" (

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) – 5:55 #"Turn Your Love Away" (Stroud) – 5:20 #"

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" ( Elmore James) – 3:40 #"I Can't Help Myself" (Watson) – 7:00 #"Indians" (Watson) – 4:59 #"Hiding in Shadows" (Cotton) – 4:41 #"There's a River" (

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, Will Jennings) – 8:43 #" Man of the World" (Green) *Track 13 is a hidden track. *Japanese versions of the album contained two extra tracks: "The Brave" and "Gambling Man".

Personnel

Peter Green Splinter Group

* Peter Green – guitars,

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, vocals *

– guitars,

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, vocals *

– piano * Pete Stroud – bass guitar * Larry Tolfree –

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, percussion

Additional musicians

* Jennie Evans, Debbie Miller – backing vocals * Derek Nash, Joe Green – tenor saxophone * Kate Shortt, Guy Theaker, Malcolm Allison, Naomi Fairhurst – strings

Technical

* Pete Brown and the Splinter Group – producers * Matthew Ollivier – engineer * Richard Wheatley – assistant engineer * 9th Planet, London – design

References

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