''Fresh Wine for the Horses'' is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter

Rob Dickinson Robert Dickinson (born 23 July 1965) is a British musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter previously of the band Catherine Wheel (band), Catherine Wheel.Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, , p. 664 ...

. Released in 2005, it features tracks that Dickinson wrote while a member of Catherine Wheel but never made it onto official releases, as well as new material written since the band's breakup in 2000. The album received mixed reviews from the media, but was met with enthusiastic approval by longtime fans of the band. The release was supported by a tour of small venues across the United States and Canada, where Dickinson performed intimate acoustic sets comprising both Catherine Wheel and solo material. In 2008, the album was reissued as two disc edition with EP titled ''Nude'', consists of acoustic version of Catherine Wheel tracks, and a slight changing of tracklist from the original release, with the addition of previously unreleased song called "The End of the World".

Track listings

Original Version

#"My Name Is Love" – 4:08 #"Oceans" – 4:19 #"The Night" – 4:17 #"Mutineer" ( Warren Zevon) – 1:02 #"Intelligent People" – 5:20 #"Handsome" – 5:16 #"Bathe Away" – 4:07 #"The Storm" – 3:38 #"Bad Beauty" – 5:30 #"Don't Change" – 5:42 #"Towering and Flowering" – 6:17

2008 Reissue

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Piano Sessions. NME magazine wrote that «If the actual apocalypse happened to be soundtracked by this tranquil cover of Dickinson by the O’Connell siblings, we’d probably be OK with that.».

Personnel

;Musicians: *

– vocals, guitar, piano, organ, harmonica, drums *David Rolfe – guitar, piano, bass guitar, drums *Greg Collins – bass guitar *Paul Umbach – guitar, bass guitar, drums * Tim Friese-Greene – bass guitar * Marty Willson-Piper – guitar *Brian Futter – guitar, vocals *David Lavita – guitar *Lawrence Katz – guitar *Bruce Witken – upright bass *Neil Sims – drums, percussion *Bill Lefler – drums *Ryan Macmillan – drums *Bryan Mcleod – drums *Butch – drums * Tracy Bonham – violin *Mike Farrel – trumpet, organ *Peter Adams – keyboards *Dick Robinson Spiritual Suite, Lonnie Love, April Hoffman – backing vocals ;Production: *

– producer *David Rolfe – producer, mixing *Paul Umbach – producer *Greg Collins – producer *Ross Hogarth – mixing *Jennifer Broussard – photography

References

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